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Poet Jay Hulme journeys into the moss-covered cave that was once home to the fourteenth-century hermit St Robert of Knaresborough. Beloved in his time and a pilgrimage site for centuries after his death, his cave has fallen back into obscurity. Now overgrown and layered with graffiti, the cave becomes a portal through which Jay contemplates faith, solitude, and the traces we leave behind. His poem meditates on how sacredness endures, even in forgotten places. The series Empty Spaces explores the beauty and melancholy of abandoned places that still hold meaning. Each episode invites a poet to inhabit one site of their choosing and breathe imagination, memory, and lyricism back into the surroundings via poetry. Producer: Sean Allsop Executive Producer: Leonie Thomas Sound Mix: Mike Woolley An Overcoat Media production for Â鶹Éç Radio 3