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On The Horizon
By Charlie Gladstone & Tara Richards-GladstoneSociety & Culture
On The Horizon episodes
- On The Horizon - IntroductionHello! Welcome to the On The Horizon podcast. This podcast series is starting by taking you through recordings from our latest event here at Hawarden Estate, called On The Horizon. Which happened at the beginning of July 2024.When we ran On The Horizon, we thought we could record the conversations that happened at the event, and release them as a standalone series. However, we have decided to continue it as a podcast throughout the year, bringing you more conversations with more brilliant people.Gentle, generous, considered conversation feels peculiarly important today. We live in a world of argument, of culture wars, of opinions formed quickly and blurted loudly, of half-facts and fake news. Conversations that involve listening and digesting and conversing are important, entertaining and life enhancing but I can’t help but worry that they are becoming depressingly rare.6 min
- Anja Baak. Ep 2. What I Think About When I Think About Food.From the family home in the Highlands of Scotland, Anja Baak runs a classic small business, Great Glen Charcuterie. Here she talks about family, food waste, hard work, imagination and much more.19 min
- Olia Hercules. Ep 1. What I Think About When I Think About Food.This is a new series in which I talk to people who work with food; there will be chefs, writers, producers, growers and stylists. My first guest is writer and chef Olia Hercules whose new book The Sumer Kitchen is one of the most warmly received of 2020.27 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep 6.The final part of Series 1 of Outdoor Voices features answers to some simple questions from a gardener and chef, some artists and food producers and a green wood worker. This is about nature and our relationship with it. I hope you enjoy it.18 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep 5.This is a short lockdown series in which I question people who work outdoors about why they do what they do and what nature and being outside means to them. There are answers from a gamekeeper, a shepherd, an artist or two and a green wood worker.17 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep 4.Part 4 of a short series in which I talk to people who live and work outdoors. In this edition I have contributions from a gamekeeper, an environmental artist, a shepherd and a forager. These are the voices of people who work alongside nature.14 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep. 3.This is a short lockdown series in which I ask people who work outdoors why they choose to do so and what they love about living close to nature. I talk to a warden on a remote island, a forager, a shepherd, a game keeper, an environmental artist and many more people who spend their lives in the great outdoors.19 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep. 2.This is a short series about people who live and work outdoors. In this remotely-recorded lockdown series I talk to people who have chosen to live as close to nature as possible, from a forager to an environmental artist and from a warden on a remote island to a shepherd, these are the voices of the outdoors.16 min
- Outdoor Voices. Ep. 1This is a short series about people who live and work outdoors. In this remotely-recorded lockdown series I talk to people who have chosen to live as close to nature as possible, from a forager to an environmental artist and from a warden on a remote island to a shepherd, these are the voices of the outdoors.17 min
- Cover Stories. Pt 6. Stories About Songs.This is Part 6 (and the final part of Series 1) of Cover Stories, in which my guests dial in their stories about a cover version of a song that has had a profound impact on them. This is about people and music and friendship and life. I hope you enjoy it.34 min
About On The Horizon
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Welcome to the On The Horizon podcast. This podcast series starts by taking you through recordings from our live event, and then will move onto more conversations with more brilliant people, throughout the year.
We felt that the talks that we used to host at The Good Life Experience (our festival of food, ideas, music & craft that we ran for 8 years) on Hawarden Estate were really special and unusual. In many ways it was the guests’ conversations before and after the talks that made them different. We deliberately had no green room or backstage, and so the speakers were able to meet the audience and continue their conversations over a drink or food or whatever.
And then we had the fact that our great, great, (an extra great for Tara) grandfather, William Gladstone Prime Minister, lived here for much of his life and that this means that there is a rich history of important conversations happening here.
So yes, maybe the concept for On The Horizon was taking Hawarden back to the time when politicians and thinkers flooded here in the 1800s; when they had conversations rather than debates.
Gentle, generous, considered conversation feels peculiarly important today. We live in a world of argument, of culture wars, of opinions formed quickly and blurted loudly, of half-facts and fake news. Conversations that involve listening and digesting and conversing are important, entertaining and life enhancing but I can’t help but worry that they are becoming depressingly rare.