Radio: snatch valentine

During Valentine’s’ season, I am caught between two states, of knowing and not-knowing. My last months here in Norwich dwindle to nothing. I feel a warm Valentine-glow of love for the city, just as I am released from its care. I plan five, eight, ten-mile walks around the city and its edges, saturating my palate with the fields and ridges and broads, with the crumbling edges of the battlement walls, resting uneasily beside Chapelfield Mall where you can buy pink balloons, lovehearts, and plastic bunting. I love tracing the rural map beneath, scarred and salted, but still visible.

‘Snatch Valentine: Weird England’ on The Essay, BBC Radio 3