Free Thinking Festival - Old Ways, New Directions.
Cumbrian shepherd James Rebanks and cultural anthropologist Professor Veronica Strang discuss human interactions with the environment with Rana Mitter.
In the hunger for new ideas, are we forgetting the hard-earned lessons of the past? Rana Mitter chairs a discussion recorded in front of an audience at this year's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead .
James Rebanks is the Cumbrian shepherd sharing his farming knowledge with thousands of followers on his twitter account @herdyshepherd1
His book A Shepherd鈥檚 Life has been reprinted several times since its publication earlier this year.
Professor Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist based at Durham University and the author of The Meaning of Water who has worked with communities all over the world exploring how they think of their relationship with the non-human and the land.
Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
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