Horatio Clare / The Unknown Path

Horatio Clare takes us to visit a hill farm in the Black Mountains, the backdrop for his brilliant memoir Running for the Hills. He has written quite relentlessly ever since, on everything from the migratory path of the swallow to the allure of seafaring life. He is a regular contributor to both Radio 4 and Radio 3, where he won much acclaim for his ‘slow radio’ sound walks. On a glorious spring day we hike up to the top of his favourite Welsh hill to admire the land before us and the skylarks above, and to talk about the curious route of the travel writer, the pull between restlessness and rootedness, and the way his path was forged by his rural upbringing. This episode is part of our second podcast series, The Unknown Path, following the writer and broadcaster Laura Barton as she journeys across the country to meet six authors, actors and naturalists. Taken to places from their past and present, we learn about the various, and often unexpected, routes their lives have taken.