Rhys Mwyn joins us for this episdoe. We talk about archaeology and ancient sites, the power of music from Punk up today. We talk about radio, gardening and Rhy's life in the music industry.

Anjana Khatwa is today's guest and joins us to discuss her book The Whispers of Rock. We start with Anjana's earliest love of rocks and gelogy through her academic career to the author she is today. We talk about Anjana's passion for encouraging and inspiring young people as well as authors and geologists that Anjana is inspired by and works alongside. We talk about the stones used to build stonehenge, where they came from and why they might have been chosen.

Peter Ross joins us to talk about his book Upon A White Horse. A book and conversation that take us on a journey around the British Isles, exploring the ancient sites and meeting many of the people that love them, protect them, research them and carry the stories of the stones with them. We talk about Peter's process of writing, about rural and urban spaces that are home to stone circles. about music and about how Upon A White Horse forms the conclusion to his unofficial trilogy that also includes A Tomb With a View and Steeple Chasing.

Manni Coe is the author of Little Ruins and co-author of brother.do.you.love.me with his brother Reuben.

We talk about the idea of home and finding home. `We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.

Author Fiona Robertson is our guest today, we discuss Fiona's book Stone Lands and some of the ancient sites that inspired the book and feature in it. We chat about memory, landscape, loss and enduring love. We talk about ancient sites around the UK and the magic of the old stones.

Penny Rimbaud joins Matthew Shaw for a wide ranging conversation taking in Penny's artistic practice, gardening, baking bread, Crass, Stonehenge and returning to meditation as a practice. Contrary, boundry pushing, wise, uncomfortable at times while always promoting love, this is Penny in his unique uncensored flow.

Jeremy Deller joins Matthew Shaw for a conversation about the triumph or art, rave music, stone circles, film making, brass bands, steel bands, activism, identity and so much more. Always a joy! I't's always a pleasure to hear from Jeremy.

Today Gwenno joins Matthew Shaw for a conversation about language, landscape, culture and of course Gwenno's music across the years including her fantastic latest album Utopia.

Today our guest is Einar Selvik, musician, singer and ethnomusicologist. Einar is the founder of the band Wardruna. We talk about ancient sites, nature, wild places, landscape and Einar's life growing up in Norway. We talk about music, poetry, archaeology, playing drums in metal bands and the beginnings and evolution of Wardruna up to the present day. We also discuss Wardruna's new album Birna.

From the deep woods now emerges Birna, Wardruna’s sixth studio album. Through his restless dialogue with nature, main composer Einar Selvik has been searching for the voice of the bear, resulting in this upcoming release, scheduled for January 2025.

Birna – the she-bear in Old Norse – is a work of art dedicated to the guardian of the forest, nature’s caretaker, and her battles here on earth. Slowly driven out of her habitat by modern day societies, she has entered a stage of permanent hibernation. As a result, the forest is gradually dying, longing for its pulse and heart – its shepherd. Birna calls for her return.

Today we talk with Hayden Thorpe about Orford Ness, about the power of place, about, nature, rewilding and the creation of Hayden's new lp Ness.

Hayden Thorpe is the Cumbrian solo artist, formerly of Wild Beasts.  Using a process of redaction, Thorpe brings songs to life from the pages of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane’s book of the same name. Ness is inspired by Suffolk’sOrford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it to this day remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution.