Celebrated author, Raynor Winn, joins Rachel to talk about the upcoming screen adaptation of her Sunday Times best-seller, The Salt Path, and the evocative and beautiful collaboration with The Gigpsanner Big Band that has created 'Saltlines', a project that combines prose and folk music with a focus on the coastline of the south west.
About Raynor Winn
Since travelling the South West Coast Path, Raynor Winn has become a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and the health benefits of walking. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines. She won the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize in 2019 and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Costa, the Wainwright and the Stanfords Travel Writing awards. Raynor is also a prolific speaker.
Her latest title, LANDLINES, was a number 1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback. The film adaptation of the 85-week Sunday Times Bestseller, THE SALT PATH, will be released in 2024 and stars Gillian Anderson as Raynor and Jason Isaacs as Moth.
In 2022 Raynor collaborated with folk-roots supergroup The Gigspanner Big Band to create Saltlines, a prose and music collaboration. Thought-provoking compositions by Raynor were written with songs and tunes curated from collections by Cecil Sharp and Sabine Baring-Gould, and the archive held at Cecil Sharp House, home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The show enjoyed a debut tour in 2022 around the South West Coast Path, and expanded its reach during 2023 with a tour of the North.
Raynor is also a much valued Ambassador at the Association.