What Peat Remembers

2020

What Peat Remembers – 1923, we are with Margaret Godwin, wife of Fred Godwin and student of Arthur Tansley as she excavates peat in Wicken and commits to a life of stratigraphy

Background Information

This film was produced for Heritage Open Day (HOD) 2020. The HODs 2020 theme was 'Hidden Nature'. This new work combines EAFA archive film with new ‘alternative voice-overs’ written by the University of East Anglia's Professor Steve Waters and recorded by UEA drama alumni 'UEA Ensemble LAB'. The voice-over is an extract taken from a longer monologue written by Professor Steve Waters and created for his AHRC funded project ‘The Song of the Reed: Dramatising Conservation'.

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What Peat Remembers

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