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"Before you posed the question 'background or inspiration?' I would have said, - I just have it on - most of the time really. I don't listen to Radio 4 while painting in the forest, there's other communication going on there - requiring a differnet kind of attentiveness. But I'm Radio 4 listening all through lightless winter days, working indoors, picking up patches of information about the world, brain tuning in and out. Hard to tell how often this turns from background voices for compamionship into 'inspiration' - initiating a train of thought - influencing further investigation. It prompted me to tell the programme Nature about this veteran beech tree I know, and friends were only slightly surprised to hear my voice on Pick of the Week. Maybe because Radio 4 listeners feel they inhabit a huge room filled with familiar voices
- a community of incorporeal minds."
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