THE BLOG.
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Old Dog New Tricks
Pen shares a few thoughts on the value of never playing it safe, in life or in coming up with the format for a new series, both have their risks but there’s joy to be found in trying something just a bit different…
A Landscape for Recovery
This was a piece Pen was commissioned to write by the brilliant BBC producer, Helen Needham, as part of a Radio 3 series of essays Helen was making about 5 women and their relationship to particular landscapes through emotional and physical recovery.
Bridging the Seasons – Autumn to Winter
Pen shares thoughts on the point of change from Autumn to Winter for BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors.
Walking in the Dark
We spend a lot of the winter with limited daylight hours in the north of Scotland so Pen wrote this piece for BBC Out of Doors about where her mind wanders when she’s out walking in the dark…