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The Essay Cornerstones Episodes

    Chalk

    5/5 Alyson Hallett on being drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts

    Fire Rocks

    4/5 Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.

    Coal Mines

    3/5 Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.

    Millstone

    2/5 Poet Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit

    Quartz

    1/5 Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.