Any book club which has clocked up over 160 books is impressive. Emily Rhodes, creator of Emily’s Walking Book Club in London, has done that and more. Her club combines reading with walks across London's Hampstead Heath and Regent's Park. So far she's taken members for over 160 walks to discuss the same number of books. She's also formed an important charity - Bookbanks. Charlie, Emily and her dog Alfie take a walk through the brambles, leaves and trees of Hampstead Heath to talk about the power of reading to bring people together.

Link to Emily's Book Club: https://emilyrhodeswriter.com/emilys-walking-book-club/

Samantha Ellis, an Iraqi Jew and second-generation refugee, has never been to the country she longs to see. Her new memoir, Chopping Onions on My Heart, is a personal story of her family's flight from Iraq as well as a reckoning with the loss of their language of Judeo Iraqi Arabic. It's a deeply intelligent book which wrestles with the idea of home and how we preserve culture. Samantha and I took a walk in a place of her choosing - the place where she's tried to create a sense of belonging for her young son.

Prize-winning poet Penny Boxall has spent the past year as writer-in-residence at Wytham Woods in Oxford, studying soil. The results - a series of decomposing poems - are her farewell gift to the woods: buried poems, submerged poems, and poems written on fruit. As Penny finishes her residency, Charlie begins her own at Wytham. On a sunny autumn day, they walked the woods together with spade and hammer, as Penny hid her year's work around tree trunks, in moss and in earth.

Music for 'Calcite Eyes' from Replaying the Tape composed and performed by Jane Boxall.