Alice Oswald
Leading writers share the secrets of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Alice Oswald - poet and lepidopterist- visits the nocturnal world of the moth.
Where can we escape to at times when we are cooped up, locked down, trapped indoors? Some people recall a a real location - a favoured corner to which they return again and again, what the Swedes call a "wild strawberry place"; others find a refuge deep in the imagination.
In these exceptional times, Radio 3 has specially commissioned five major writers to share their special place, and each night of the week, one of them offers to take us there and share it with us.
Alice Oswald takes us deep into the miniature world of lepidopterology: on the eve of the lockdown, she became the proud owner of a moth-trap, and now imagines herself sharing the lives of these tiny nocturnal insects in the darkness of their temporary home.
Producer: Beaty Rubens
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