Charlie Lee-Potter begins Wytham Woods writing residency

This week, Dr Charlie Lee-Potter takes over as writer-in-residence at Wytham Woods. Charlie is an award-winning writer, lecturer, artist and journalist, receiving the International Créateurs Design Prize for Creative Journalism for her work on the sculptor Auguste Rodin.

As the former presenter of BBC Radio 4 programmes such as PM, The World at One, Open Book, and The World This Weekend, Charlie has a particular interest in sound art and the written word. Her podcast Inside A Mountain, shortlisted for the International Women’s Podcast Awards, uses complex soundscape and music to evoke the atmosphere of walks with guests such as international cellist Natalie Clein, writer Sally Bayley, and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. To mark the start of her residency, Charlie has made a podcast episode with Wytham’s outgoing poet-in-residence, Penny Boxall. The two of them walked the woods as Penny hid her series of decomposing poems about soil written at Wytham over the past year.

As writer-in-residence, Charlie will be working on soundscape as well as a work of creative nonfiction. She’ll also be running a series of writing and book-making workshops.