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Re: iPlayer Radio 3 - Cornerstones: The Essay
Jan 25, 2017, 18:46
Pilgrim wrote:
Hello,
I thought I'd bring this little series to your attention:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08966p2/episodes/player

"Series in which five different writers reflect on how a favoured location is determined by its underlying geology"

I haven't listened to the other four, but I see the last is Chalk.

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Thanks for this. Have just listened to 'Chalk' - as a few weeks back walked from the village of Bratton up to Bratton Camp/Westbury White Horse. As Alyson Hallett says, the Horse has been concreted over for ease of maintenance - a great shame I feel. She mentions the massive chalk quarries which are hidden from view, owned and used the nearby cement works (now closed) as you need chalk to make cement. What I didn't know until now is that chalk is made plankton over 35 million years ago. Whilst extolling the virtues of chalk she tips her hat to Uffington White Horse, hill figures and the Lascaux cave paintings. Plus snooker cues.
Very good. Will listen to the others later.
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