In the face of economic turmoil and climate crisis, there are communities of people who have been feverously looking to our long forgotten and overlooked places – harbours, overgrown forests and former sites of industry – for new designs on the future; and starting the slow process of building towards it.

In her spellbinding new book Frontierlands, journalist Hazel Sheffield traverses the length and breadth of contemporary Britain to show how community action is helping to regenerate our fragmented and rapidly fading environments, discovering a new purpose and power led by the faith and ingenuity of those who live there.

In conversation with award-winning Birmingham-based journalist, Dan Cave.