John Phipps

Everything in me wanted to dislike it – but it’s lovely: BBC Radio 3’s Sound Walk reviewed

With an evocative, impressively unannoying voiceover from Horatio Clare, this frustratingly does exactly what it promises to do, and makes you feel a bit nicer

The summit of Ben Nevis: violins thrum as an ocean of mist emerges below us. ‘The sky up here is blue, grey and swirling,’ says Horatio Clare

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