Desire Lines

Join Emily in conversation with textile artist and contemporary embroiderer Hanny Newton. Through an intuitive, material-centred approach to historical craft techniques, Hanny creates bespoke hand-stitched pieces using metal and natural threads. Her practice explores how embroidery helps us see ancient techniques in fresh ways. She was a recipient of a 2023 QEST Broderers Company Scholarship, part of her work using straw and grasses to create a sustainable ‘natural gold‘. Hanny was also awarded the inaugural QEST Sanderson Rising Star Craft Award in 2024.

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This episode evolved in collaboration with Mawddach Residency in Arthog, Wales. Weaving together a conversation with founders Scarlett Rebecca and Jake Spicer, alongside reflections from residents Emily Wilkinson and Hyunah Koh. Produced as part of Emily's own residency (supported by the SWW-DTP), this dialogue explores themes of artist residencies, landscape and creative community stitched together with original field recordings made on the estuary edges.

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These meditative tracks are a slightly different kind of walking interlude. Field Sensing (parts 1 & 2) is a two-part meditation produced as part of the Landing Project (⁠www.thelandingproject.com⁠), an art and agriculture project led by Molly Brown and Andrew Howe.

You can simply listen to these meditations at home (headphones recommended), or visit a field/open space of your choosing. These Field Sensing meditations are intended to connect the listener to fields real and imagined, guiding you on a sensory journey through the land, ecology and some of the cultural/systemic issues present in our everyday landscapes.

The meditations were written and produced by Emily Meredith Wilkinson, weaving in sounds collected by Andrew Howe, at Bettisfield Farm on the Welsh borders, UK.

These meditative tracks are a slightly different kind of walking interlude. Field Sensing (parts 1 & 2) is a two-part meditation produced as part of the Landing Project (www.thelandingproject.com), an art and agriculture project led by Molly Brown and Andrew Howe.

You can simply listen to these meditations at home (headphones recommended), or visit a field/open space of your choosing. These Field Sensing meditations are intended to connect the listener to fields real and imagined, guiding you on a sensory journey through the land, ecology and some of the cultural/systemic issues present in our everyday landscapes.

The meditations were written and produced by Emily Meredith Wilkinson, weaving in sounds collected by Andrew Howe, at Bettisfield Farm on the Welsh borders, UK.

This episode was created following a two-day arts and poetry event titled 'Under the Aqueduct' in aid of Afon Dyfrdwy (the River Dee) in Northeast Wales, which was in aid of the Dee Trust and supported by ETA CIC. Join Emily for conversations with Rob Hirst, Suzanne Iuppa and Natasha Borton, with poetry and musical contributions from Vivace Choir, Jenny Wilde Parkes, Sheryl Clowes, Geraint Jones and Ted Eames.

Thanks also to Emma Jayne Holmes, who also co-organised our event and brought her wonderful visual art contributions to these conversations.

The Walking Interlude preceding this episode titled 'Dyfrydwy Dreaming' is a companion piece to this journey, and a more meditative sound experience layering field recordings and music made with Jenny Wilde-Peake along the River Dee.

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A sound journey made alongside Afon Dyfrdwy (the River Dee) which flows beneath the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. This piece was made on a walk and in collaboration with musician Jenny Wilde-Parkes as part of the Walking Interludes project, an exploration of protected spaces in Wales.

Taith sain a wnaed ar hyd Afon Dyfrdwy sy'n llifo o dan Draphont Pontcysyllte. Gwnaed y darn hwn ar daith gerdded ac mewn cydweithrediad â'r cerddor Jenny Wilde-Parkes fel rhan o brosiect Walking Interludes, archwiliad o fannau gwarchodedig yng Nghymru.

© Emily Wilkinson & Jenny Wilde-Parkes 2026

In this episode, we continue our conversations with Dr. Tamara Russell. Tamara is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, martial artist and mindfulness trainer. She works as an academic and clinician, exploring the use of embodied mindfulness in the work of transformation and self-development.

Our second conversation focuses in on neurodivergence and wayfinding, exploring the importance of environment in our quality of attention. We creatively try to navigate the tricky terrain of diagnosis, whilst coming up with some suggestions for valuing neurodivergent experience with more kindness.

We reference Abigail Rose Clark's book Returning Home to Our Bodies. Find out more about the book at https://www.abigailroseclarke.com/

FREE GIFT: Find Tamara's Compassionate To Do List online at https://sutra.co/space/qzn05v84. You can also sign up to Tamara's Dragon Academy courses.

Tune into this early spring walk around The Dyfi Osprey Project. Footsteps create a rhythm over boardwalks as the songs of bird kin make themselves known. Join chiffchaff, water rail, bluetits and geese in this short symphony of diversity. Moments of passing trains remind us of the inherent accessibility of this site, and the constant nearness of machinery. This soundscape was made just as the Ospreys return from their winter migrations.

Gwrandewch ar y daith gerdded gynnar yn y gwanwyn hon o amgylch Prosiect Gweilch y Pysgod Dyfi. Mae camau traed yn creu rhythm dros lwybrau pren wrth i ganeuon adar teuluol wneud eu hunain yn hysbys. Ymunwch â'r siff-saff, rhegen y dŵr, titwod glas a gwyddau yn y symffoni fer hon o amrywiaeth. Mae eiliadau o drenau'n mynd heibio yn ein hatgoffa o hygyrchedd cynhenid ​​​​y safle hwn, ac agosrwydd cyson peiriannau. Crëwyd y dirwedd sain hon wrth i'r Gweilch y Pysgod ddychwelyd o'u mudo gaeaf.

Birdsong contributions / Cyfraniadau canu adar: Scott Roe (local ecologist / ecolegydd lleol, Lee Alder (xeno-canto.com) and David Darrell Lambert (xeno-canto.com).

Jo Hazell Watkins is a trauma-informed strength trainer and co-founder of The Soma Space in Oswestry, UK. In a previous career, Jo worked as a textiles designer before significant life events and a period of ill health re-orientated her towards the use of the body for healing.

In this episode, Emily and Jo talk about women's strength as a desire line, unpicking narratives around strength and our conditioning as women. We encourage listeners of all genders to tune into this conversation, as the themes are wide -ranging and pertinent to co-creating kinder futures.

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Join Emily on a February walk around the grounds of Castell y Waun (Chirk Castle). In this walking interlude, we hear the light returning, omnipresent birdsong and quivering snowdrops offset nearby urban acoustics. Walking Interludes are short meditative sound journeys creating using sounds from particular walks. These soundscapes are best experienced with headphones.

The music in this episode was contributed by Oliver Kynaston.