The Stubborn Light of Things

Episode Nineteen: Ritual

<p class="excerpt">Join Melissa as she watches a huge combine harvester bringing in the golden wheat. The air is full of flying chaff, dragonflies, and the reedy sound of yellowhammers. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-19-ritual/">Listen →</a></p>

I am a nature writer and novelist, and I’m lucky enough to be able to walk out of my cottage straight into Suffolk’s beautiful open countryside. For six months – as spring 2020 broke over the British Isles, and summer turned to autumn – I documented the wonder and richness of the natural world and the changing seasons and brought the outdoors into as many locked-down homes as I could.