In which a return to Mid Wales triggers a kind of charged and magical experience that feels like a portal onto a more intense world. What’s going on here?


Music from Pilgrim Chants and Pastoral Trails by Sharron KrausWith Harriet Earis, Mark Wilden & Simon Lewis



REFERENCES Sioned Davies, tr., The Mabinogion Alan Garner, The Owl Service Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising Diarmuid Johnson, Pen and Plough – 20th Century Poets and Bards of Ceredigion Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces