Running on Joy with Francesca Goodwin is a podcast that considers what drives people to make, to take action, to inspire, to change and to innovate. Each week, a new interview explores how we can live in a more connected, creative and compassionate manner for the benefit of our communities, our planet and our own mental and physical health.
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Intro Music: Ned Stranger, Enter the Hero
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Running on Joy with Francesca Goodwin is a podcast that considers what drives people to make, to take action, to inspire, to change and to innovate. Each week, a new interview explores how we can live in a more connected, creative and compassionate manner for the benefit of our communities, our planet and our own mental and physical health.
Running on Joy is ad free but, if you enjoy the show, please do take a moment to leave a review and give feedback wherever you listen to your podcasts. If you really love it, please share it with your friends; it all helps to spread these stories further and create ripples in the world around us.
Intro Music: Ned Stranger, Enter the Hero
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Joy is...An Afternoon Walk.
Jim Leary is an archaeologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of York. They previously held posts at Reading University and English Heritage. Formerly also a Field Archaeologist in Residence at Cambridge University, he has directed major excavations across Britain, including Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, the largest Neolithic monument in Europe. A passionate walker, much of Jim's research centres around the way that people moved in the past, and his new book Footmarks was published earlier this summer. Footmarks takes us on a restless journey that traces 3.5 million years of human movement, in turn exploring the relationship between our ability to travel and power. From early hunter-gatherers, to drovers and pilgrims, to migration, Footmarks shows us how movement has shaped our world. Archaeology, through this lens, is far from static.
Jim is generous with his incredible experience and knowledge, with a distinctively un-monumental approach to history and an empathetic enthusiasm for re-animating the distant past. Our conversation makes a case for taking time to consider the mythic architecture of the landscape that surrounds us and re-connecting with a collective identity, forged through movement and storytelling. We are all, and always have been travellers, and our footmarks are something to protect and fight for.
Instagram: @jim_leary1
Twitter: @Jim_Leary
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