Zakia Sewell - Finding Albion

Zakia Sewell is on a quest to find another Britain one that shuns divisive flag waving and anti-immigration rhetoric.

Traversing the length and breadth of our island, via, among other places, Carmarthenshire, the Inner Hebrides and the Notting Hill Carnival, shes in search of a more honest national identity that challenges tired narratives of empire and reconnects us with a deeper past.She discovers it in folk songs, ancient legends and the mystic stone circles that punctuate our landscape.

Finding Albion follows the Wheel of the Year, a pagan way to chart the changing seasons.

Her journey begins as the sun rises on one spring equinox over Glastonbury Tor and ends on spring equinox a year later here in Wiltshire at Stonehenge.Building on My Albion, her BBC Radio 4 series, the book explores whether she can truly belong in Britain her fathers family line stretches back to tin-mining stock in Cornwall, her mothers to the tiny Caribbean island of Carriacou.

Its an uplifting mission that heralds the promise of a brighter future.

We are in dire need of different stories about Britain, she says.

And like William Blake, she believes that the spirit of Albion will rise again.Zakia Sewell will be in conversation with Bishop Andrew Rumsey.