In this episode, we talk with Emma Must, poet, Belfast resident and, in another time and place, an accidental activist. We begin by discovering our common appreciations of the city of Belfast, including Emma’s encounter with the tree-felling and vegetation removal along the River Lagan towpath. “Wolf Moon”, the poem she wrote in response to that devastation, is read here for the first time, a world premiere. The conversation then moves back to the early 1990s, when Thatcher’s government was embarking on its massive so-called “Roads for Prosperity” scheme, quipped as the “largest road building programme for the UK since the Romans”. Emma, fresh out of university and working as a children’s librarian in Winchester, sees on her daily train commute from Southampton how the top of Twyford Down, a beloved ancient chalk landscape of rolling hills, is being scraped away to build a motorway.