It's nice to hear Jonathan's beautiful voice again. Episodes duration is 15 minutes.
The first episode "Snow talk" is available already on BBC Radio IPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085t3f4
Five years ago, Marcus S. and his wife moved to an old chalet d'alpage high up in the Haute-Savoie (an alpine department of the eastern France bordering both Switzerland and Italy). Here for the first time he understands how snow can really shape the rhythms of daily life and during his first full winter in the mountains, he appreciates the hard daily labour involved in clearing proper alpine snow from the path outside his house.
Today he remembers the snowy winters of his childhood in Kent and muses on the many different words that describe snow.
Episode 2 "A little science" is also available on IPlayer:
In this episode Marcus S. considers the science of snow and what 'makes' a snowflake and the phenomenon of 'diamond dust'. He also remembers the snowy winters of his childhood in Kent and the infamous cold of 1963.
Episode 3 "The art of snow" is tomorrow on BBC Radio 4 at 9.45 a.m
Marcus Sedgwick muses on why snow is so powerful to our imagination and so transformative. Today he explores how snow has inspired artists, musicians and filmmakers looking at the vividly 'cold' paintings of Bruegel, Schubert's beautiful but bleak Winterreise, and Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice created as he walked from Munich to Paris in late November to visit the dying Lottie Eisner.
Episode 4 "Exposure" is on Thursday at 9.45 a.m.
In this episode, his new home prompts him to recall explorations of other snowy landscapes including his own trip to the Arctic Circle and that of the great explorer Scott as he headed for the South Pole.
Episode 5 "Transformations" is on Friday (same time)
In this final episode, Marcus S. studies the nature of its 'whiteness' and welcomes in the spring thaw.
P.S. Have a great winter holiday!
