Old St Pancras Churchyard was once described as the “Dead Centre” of London, for it held the graves of many thousands of Londoners. It has the Sir John Soane mausoleum, the grave of Mary Wollstonecraft author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, and a sundial memorial to Dame Burdett-Coutts a Victorian philanthropist. It […]
Not sure that the title is an oxymoron as you can take any podcast on a walk, however what we’ve picked out here are the seven that we think provide the most entertainment and that have an insight into why walking is such a delight. Early next year, we will be celebrating the 15th year […]
Earlier in the year, on our sister walk · listen · create website, we ran a writing competition in which we asked people to submit poetry and prose of 250 words or under the theme of the “Walking Home” – the theme was chosen by our writers-in-residence Lydia Kennaway and Claudia Zeiske and we had […]
Looking through the Walk21 Ireland conference programme, it’s all very familiar territory, however it’s been trodden by new pairs of shoes, which we welcome. Hats off to the hard work and expertise of Jim Walker and Bronwen Thornton, happy to be the driving forces behind what is surely one of the most extraordinary series of […]
The Museum of Walking is 15 years old… In 2007 we were lucky to be included in a walking an art residency took place in Banff in the Canadian Rockies. Our proposal was to create a museum of walking to showcase new works and to share the work of walking artists. The Banff experience was […]
Back in autumn 2016 we collaborated with NG Bristow and Ian Thompson to create a monthly Sound Salon inviting anyone interested in composing sound walks and outdoor sound pieces: one month we met at the Mitre in Greenwich, the second month we tried to do some field recording, and the third month we would join […]
Almost 12 years on and Talking Walking podcasts are now once again available on the Apple Podcast platform, besporting a slightly adapted livery (by Alban Low, adapted from the original design by Ian Martin). For little or no reason, Apple chose to drop Talking Walking podcasts after our first 26 episodes so it’s rather timely […]
Who better to encourage a spring in your step, than former TV fitness personality Joanna Hall who has created the Walk-Active programme. We are publishing our 125th Talking Walking episode, with an interview of Joanna in her home town of Bishop’s Stortford. She can show in a few minutes just how your stature and stride […]
That is what more than 100 people revealed through making submissions on the theme of “Healing Trees” to the 2022 Urban Tree Festival writing competition. Our volunteer judges have selected their Top 24 submissions, that we have published on the Urban Tree Festival website – who would be in your shortlist? Challenged to write about […]
Three items to celebrate: Publication of WALKING (2022) – chapbook anthology Talking Walking interview with Duncan Minshull on selecting contemporary writers on walking A Walking Writers Salon with Duncan on his new book- Where My Feet Fall walk listen create are delighted to announce the publication of WALKING (2022) (see feature image) ISBN 978-1-912960-95-8, the […]
