Chemin de Pompe: The Bamboo & Flax Run

On a quiet Friday morning in the French countryside, the Running Jackal heads out along the Chemin de Pompe, enjoying some unusually flat roads and a little freedom from the hills around Cordes-sur-Ciel. Along the way, he reflects on the flax fields, learning that this crop is being grown for linseed rather than fibre, while wandering through the dry river valley and photographing a few of the farms and countryside sights. The run then takes an unexpected turn into the story of the Dove’s Font, a beautiful old typeface developed beside the Dove pub on the Thames—a pub the Jackal himself remembers drinking in as a teenager. He compares the highly polished presentation of the podcast he heard about the font with his own rough-and-ready Guerrilla Podcasting style, wondering whether his listeners sometimes prefer the stories without all the Jackal delivery wrapped around them. By the end, he has decided to keep experimenting with shorter, less technical and less waffly audio, while continuing to tell the stories that turn up when he goes out for a run. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-running-jackal--500980/support .