Robert Macfarlane on 'Landmarks', shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize

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'Smeuse': Sussex dialect for 'the hole in the base of a hedgerow made by the repeated passage of a small animal' 'Af'rug': a Shetland word for 'the reflex of a wave after it has struck the shore' Zwer: the sound made by a covey of partridges taking flight. A tiny sample of the words collected by the nature writer Robert Macfarlane for his book Landmarks which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He's been speaking to Martha Kearney about his work.