The Are You Lost? podcast is hosted by Bowland artist and writer Rob St. John. Its offers glimpses into the Are You Lost? project as it develops through 2025, inviting a range of guests to partake in conversations about art, nature, community and countryside access.
Are You Lost? will be a series of film, sound and textile installations across Bowland which highlight the diverse voices and perspectives of the communities that live around the area. A festival series of temporary installations will be created across the National Landscape, both in accessible public spaces and in more remote, largely-unused spaces in 2025. Rob will be working with producers Lancaster Arts & Blaze Arts.
Rob is an artist and writer based in Lancashire. His practice is focused on the blurring of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes. He works across sound, moving image, text and installation. His work has been shown and heard at Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Barbican, The British Museum and many others. Rob will be working with young people from around Burnley and its surrounding towns.
Are You Lost? is part of Nature Calling, a national programme, run by the National Landscapes Association, in partnership with Activate and supported by the Poetry School and funded by Arts Council England and Defra.
https://www.naturecalling.org.uk/rob-st-john
Host Rob interviews Kate O’Farrell, a creative partner, about textile pieces that draw from cotton mill weaving practices, textile traditions, and natural materials derived from the Bowland landscape.
15 Sept 2025
Ep.10 – Art, Nature and Community in the Forest of Bowland
Jocelyn Cunningham leads a discussion with Jenny Rutter and Anna Taylor about socially-engaged environmental art in Bowland, exploring the intersection of art, nature, and community in this interview.
19 Aug 2025
Ep.9 – Singing Bowland with Jules Evans
Host Rob interviews choir leader and composer Jules Evans about his socially-engaged art and collaborations creating music with young people in Bowland.
29 Jul 2025
Ep.8 – Openness, Imagination, Transparency
Artist Rob St John discusses the year-long community project "Are You Lost?" and how local voices shaped the film, sound, and textile installations, reflecting on access to Bowland's landscapes through openness, imagination, and transparency in this interview.
18 Jun 2025
Ep.7 – Storying Bowland
Poet and woodland restorationist Jane Routh discusses native woodland restoration, local histories, and how Bowland inspires her poetry in an interview, offering insights into the area's cultural and environmental landscape.
9 May 2025
EP.6 – Farming Bowland
In this episode we visit two farms located in very different landscapes across Bowland. First, the group of young people from Yes Hub in Nelson who made the ‘Pendle’s Hidden Gems’ episode of this podcast visit Northwood Farm, just outside the town, and overlooked by Pendle Hill.
The group meet Philip Marginson, a beef and sheep farmer who regularly runs educational visits to the farm. Saud, Dua, Zaynab and Callum spend time recording the sounds of the farm, and asking Philip questions about farming life here between the town and the hills.
Then we travel to a rural valley in the heart of Bowland to meet Tom and Jackie Entwistle on Lentworth Farm in Abbeystead. Over an entertaining and enlightening chat around their farmhouse kitchen table, Tom and Jackie discuss life farming in a small and tight-knit community.
19 Apr 2025
Ep.5 – Pendle’s Hidden Gems — a Yes Hub podcast
This episode was recorded over a series of workshops with young people attending the Yes Hub centre in Nelson in February 2025. After receiving training on narrative writing, interviewing and sound recording from Rob, the group planned, wrote and recorded this podcast together. Working around the broad theme of ‘home and the hills’, the group…
19 Mar 2025
Ep.4 – Bowland’s radical histories and prehistoric archaeologies
Rob meets walking guide and historian Nick Burton on the Nick of Pendle, and then archaeologist Dr Rick Peterson at the Fairy Holes Cave above Whitewell in the Forest of Bowland. Their chats cover Pendle Hill’s radical histories, rights of access movements, Quaker revelations, the founding of the Pennine Way, folklore, cairns, ruins, caves, death…
19 Mar 2025
Ep.3 – Nest Building with the Marsden Makers
This episode was recorded by the Marsden Makers at Marsden Heights Community College in Nelson, Lancashire. After a creative workshop spent building nests out of natural materials, the students decided to record a conversation between themselves, and their teacher and artist Rob St John, to talk about their relationships to nature, access to the landscape…
19 Mar 2025
Ep.2 – Connections – A Bowland Conversation with OneDa
In the second episode of the Are You Lost? podcast, artist Rob St John talks to Nature Calling writer and rapper OneDa. Speaking in Thompson Park, Burnley, OneDa takes us through her explorations of Bowland, and her public workshops with young people around Pendle. We hear from a series of young people from Burnley and Nelson telling us about…
19 Mar 2025
Ep.1 – An Introduction to Are You Lost?
An introduction to the Are You Lost? podcast, hosted by Bowland artist and writer Rob St. John with Lancaster Arts Creative Producer Ella Alemayehu-Lambert.
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