Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand - Life of Words #5

Can a word create a world? William Blake imagined that a grain of sand could contain infinity. Today, as AI learns to generate language, Blake’s vision feels more urgent than ever. What is it that words carry, and what makes human language more than information? Filmed at the RSPB Otmoor reserve near Oxford, this episode of The Life of Words explores how words evolve through memory, storytelling and imagination, from oral traditions to poems, books and the digital age. Featuring Edward Thomas’s 'Words', we ask how the smallest fragments of language can hold the biggest human stories.