Inside A Mountain: walking real and imaginary landscape with Charlie Lee-Potter

Author: Charlie Lee-Potter

Artist, broadcaster and writer Charlie Lee-Potter takes contemplative walks with a musician, artist, writer or scientist. The name comes from writer Nan Shepherds haunting phrase that a mountain has an inside - walking isnt to accumulate miles or conquer peaks but to immerse yourself in landscape. Every episode evokes place with a complex, mixed soundscape.
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SERIES 3: EPISODE 3: Samantha Ellis: Nostalgia for an unknown place
Episode 15
Tuesday, 15 July, 2025

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. Samantha Ellis in her son's favourite North London park The three kohl pots which Samantha's brought from Iraq Making makhboose or date pastries at Samantha's table