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The Creative Instinct: Exploring the Ancient Urge to Make Things by Hand with Suzy Bennett
We Need to Make Things
49 minutes
2 weeks ago
The Creative Instinct: Exploring the Ancient Urge to Make Things by Hand with Suzy Bennett
When photographer and travel journalist Suzy Bennett walked into a Victorian forge to commission a curtain rail, she was bewitched by the sights and sounds she found there.
The experience caused a career change that led Suzy to reduce her worldwide travel and pick up stories closer to home in Devon.
In this episode she looks at what lies behind our compulsion to make things, how craft can benefit mental health and the importance of celebrating traditional techniques and practical earthy people.
Suzy’s book, Artisans of Dartmoor, is out now.
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