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	Podcast:		The Essay
	Episode:		The Wood Beyond the World
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:13:49
	Publish Date:		2018-10-15 16:47:00
	Description:		Lose yourself in a forest of fair maidens and knights with suspiciously shiny armour. This is a forest where the romantic couplings may be fantastical but the backdrop is meticulously drawn. Each leaf, each clump of moss is taken directly from nature. This is the mediaeval forest as reimagined by late Victorian aesthetes aghast at the grit and grime of industrialisation. In the first of a series examining the great fictional forests of art and literature Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is joined by Ingrid Hanson from Manchester University for a walk through the Pre-Raphaelite forest. Their spirit guide is William Morris, the writer and designer who helped create the forest in his works of fantasy fiction such as The Wood Beyond the World, beating a path to be followed by Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Producer: Alasdair Cross
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