While Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is likely a poem that most of us studied in our school years, it is not perhaps one that we actively think about as we go about our daily lives, or that we would necessarily reference in regard to matters of contemporary conservation or environmental ethics. However I suspect that I now shall be re-reading it, and in a much more nuanced and better informed manner since listening to the 4 March 2021 podcast episode of BBC Radio 4’s superb In Our Time program