stevelyon

Thank goodness for BBC Radio 4. This episode (“Start the Week”) is a wonderful listen. Listeners should be prepared for its scope as it discusses such things as Northumbrian geography/history, the debauchery involved in the “Grand Tour”, and the impact of capitalism on local geography. The greatest emotional punch is reserved for a review of a book about the effects of civil war on the regions around northern Greece and two lakes I had never heard of (Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa). The writer discusses a haunted landscape created by a war that people rarely speak of.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ffyl

eriaga7771

Lake of Ohrid is the oldest lake in Europe and is the home of Koran fish that lives only in this lake and in one lake in England

stevelyon

Coincidentally, after I had sent the post I discovered that the abridged book by Kapka Kassabova's: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace was being broadcast on the radio. I am not sure if UK radio is accessible elsewhere.

thursdaysd

Lake Ohrid is gorgeous, although I can't say I saw any signs of civil war there. Croatia, now.... Or Sarajevo....

PatrickLondon

The BBC's live internet radio streams are (people from all over the world send in to Radio 3); but I don't know about accessing podcasts and other archive recordings, either through their website or their phone app. Easy enough to try from abroad, though.