A rare chance to explore the influences of one of the leading cultural thinkers and philosophers: a biographical tour celebrating the life, legacy and enduring influence of Raymond Williams’s ‘Border Country’.

Visit the principal locations of his formative years that influenced his novels, non-fiction writing, and his thinking, including:

– Llwyn Derw, his childhood home in Pandy
– chapels
– his grave in Clodock
– the tramway and railway that industrialized Pandy and the Honddu valley
– nearby industrial communities that influenced Williams’s conceptualisation of a “real, genuine socialism” created, nurtured and owned by people and communities themselves.

Raymond Williamsphile and author, Russell Todd, animates the tour making the connections between the locations you visit and Williams’s work; all in the shadow of the natural beauty and charm of the Black Mountains:

“Where the meadows are bright green against the red earth of the ploughland, and the first trees, beyond the window, are oak and holly” (The Country and the City, 1973)