The Stubborn Light of Things

Episode Twenty-five: Healing

<p class="excerpt">Join Melissa as she cycles to an abandoned World War II airbase and explores the old runways. A sharp breeze is plucking acorns from the trees, and skylarks are feeding in the brown stubble fields. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-25-healing/">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.