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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner—Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

3/5 Simon Heffer explores the 1962 film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

2/5 How Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was made into a film.

1/5 Simon Heffer re-examines the 1959 British New Wave film Room at the Top.

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

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

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

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

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

5/5 Journalist Bethany Bell on living in Modling, a town near Vienna where Schoenberg lived.

4/5 Tom McKinney on his 'first contact' with the music of Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra.