Beyond Westminster: visiting Gladstone
Post categories: Beyond Westminster, Gladstone, history, politics
08:00, Saturday, 26 December 2009
Editor's note - Paul Vickers wrestled with his Sat Nav for a trip to the Welsh borders and the ancestral home of William Ewart Gladstone to mark Gladstone's bicentenary for Beyond Westminster. He recorded this short account of his visit specially for the blog - SB.
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Paul Vickers is a Producer on Beyond Westminster
- You can hear Paul's special edition of the programme on Radio 4 today at 1100.
- Paul took the pictures himself and there are more here.
- The script of Paul's recording is here.
Comment number 1.
At 16:06 26th Dec 2009, dennisjunior1 wrote:Paul:
Thanks for the excellent commentary on the visit to Gladstone....
=Dennis Junior=
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Comment number 2.
At 12:32 28th Dec 2009, kleines c wrote:The English are starkly ignorant of Wales, according to Sir Simon Jenkins, although I did not realise that such ignorance extended to your English satnav, Paul.
;)
As Hawarden Castle is closed to the public, I have never been, so it was particularly interesting for Radio 4 to give us a glimpse of Gladstone's domestic world.
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Comment number 3.
At 15:10 4th Jan 2010, Mark Glynne-Jones wrote:Very interesting piece Paul. Sat nav set to 'shortest route' when in Wales always provides some fun; cattle grids and the like. Beware the lanes with grass growing through tarmac!
Token Welshman signing off..
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