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A year on since the first UK lockdown, Radio 4 invites five writers to tell us about the ways in which the pandemic has changed their relationship with the outside world.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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Poo Fairy by Max Porter
Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.
22 Mar 2021,14 mins
Speckled Wood by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.
23 Mar 2021,14 mins
By The Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.
24 Mar 2021,14 mins
Life, Still by Amanda Thomson
Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.
25 Mar 2021,14 mins
Troopers Hill by Michael Malay
Writers on how lockdown has changed their relationship with the nature on their doorstep.
26 Mar 2021,14 mins