MacFarlane on landscape

"How do the landscapes we love shape the people we are? For several years and more than a thousand miles, Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, and connect them to countries and continents beyond. His journeys have taken him from the chalk downs of southern England to the remote bird-islands of the Scottish north-west, from the disputed territories of Palestine to the pilgrimage routes of Spain and the sacred landscapes of the eastern Himalayas. 

Along the way -- along the ways -- he has walked stride for stride with a 5,000-year-old man near Liverpool, followed the 'deadliest path in Britain', sailed an open boat far out into the Atlantic along an ancient sea-road, and crossed paths with walkers of many kinds: wanderers, wayfarers, shamans, trespassers, poets, devouts, ghosts and dawdlers."

2012

iqsquared

(59:10)

Here you find the Q & A's on MacFarlane's lecture

And finally an audio interview with Robert MacFarlane on his book The Old Ways

2014

Downpour.com

(17:13)

Going back in time

This time a collection of lectures on historical aspects of pilgrimage.

The Manuscripts of the Codex Calixtinus

M. Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

TheMet

(57:25)

Santiago Beckons: Artist and Scholars on the Pilgrimage Road
Janice Mann, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Bucknell University

The met

(51:03)

Santiago de Compostela and the French Connections

Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Professor of History, Emerita, The City University of New York

The med

(57:25)

Art, Experience, and the Exotic on the Road to Santiago

Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Dean of the College, Sarah Lawrence College

The Med

(1:02:45)

Art and Anecdote on the Road to Santiago

David L. Simon, Ellerton and Edith Jetté Professor of Art, Colby College

The Med

(52:58)

The Twelfth-Century Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: Art and Mores along the Routes

The Med

(56:03)

Paula Gerson, Professor of Medieval Art, Florida State University