Walls

Ray Lamontagne, a great song writer and a great musician, wrote a song called Be Here Now that includes a such a profound line: ‘Don’t put your trust in walls cos walls will only crush you when they fall’. The first time I heard it I thought wow, that’s a great lyric, and it’s the same every time I listen to the song. If you don’t know him, you really should check him out. More recently, I came across Anais Mitchell and her song, Why We Build the Wall:

We build the wall to keep us free

The wall keeps out the enemy

Because we have and they have not

Because they want what we have got

The enemy is poverty and the wall keeps out the enemy

And we build the wall to keep us free

Again, do check her out, you won’t be disappointed.

Where am I going with all this? Well, we’ve been looking at China for a good few episodes. China has a wall and so I thought an episode on walls in history was in order.

 

Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream:

https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad