After experiencing intense life events, and feeling overwhelmed by grief, Joanna Pocock (Greyhound) and Phoebe Smith (Wayfarer) set out on journeys to reconcile their trauma and find a path to healing.

Having spent a lifetime exploring unfamiliar places, Phoebe Smith quit her dream job, ended her long-term relationship and found herself walking some of Britain’s oldest pilgrim paths. Wayfarer reveals how nature and place can heal past wounds, offering a pathway to salvation she never thought existed.

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels, chronicling her journey in Greyhound and reflecting on the ways in which her life, the landscape and America more broadly has changed.

Chaired by Liz Berry.