Thoreau and the American Idyll: radio

As we know, Henry David went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. As part of Melvyn Bragg's excellent In Our Time series for BBC Radio, there's a great half hour programme on Thoreau which you can listen to again here over the next few days and a chat about him on their message boards here.