The Princess Forest by Alec Finlay - Forest Fables podcast

In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain's forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland

Forests have a long tradition in literature. They represent the edge of the civilised and the unknowable. They are the home of outlaws and the otherworldly. In a new series sponsored by the Woodland Trust, the Guardian is publishing four new stories with the British woodland at their heart. Each piece is accompanied by sound design and location recordings by award-winning natural sound recordist Chris Watson and sound designer and composer Pascal Wyse.

In the third of our series, poet and artist Alec Finlay looks to the seas in search of a mythical submerged woodland off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. We recorded Alec's reading on a wind-whipped sand dune on the island of Lindisfarne.

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