 | | People and places between two piers | |
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19 May 2002 1242 BST
This week "A Sense of Place" takes a journey along the coast of North Somerset from Clevedon Pier to the promenade at Weston. | | Victorian Clevedon Pier was recently renovated | | | |
| | Along the way, Rob Wicks meets local characters and visits places of interest.
We begin on the recently restored, elegant, Victorian Pier in Clevedon and from there go on a lifeboat training exercise.
The journey takes in the hill where poets walk and the sea wall upon which farms depend.
We meet an array of interesting people:
 | | Rob Wicks joined the crew of a lifeboat |
Shantymen, who uphold the sailors' tradition of singing about the sea.
The monks at Woodspring Priory.
Birdspotters and holiday campers in Sand Bay.
And of course the fishermen, who have the sea to themselves.
It's a journey taking in ancient and modern - from the volcanic activity of Worlebury Hill to the games arcades of Weston Pier.
When Rob made the programme he wanted those who heard it to take away an idea of what there is to see between Clevedon and Weston.
"I hope it will raise a smile at amusing observations and introduce people to the ordinary but extraordinary people we meet along the way," he said.
"I want people to be left with a feeling of having been on a blustery walk across bracing beaches and hilltops." | |
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Listen to the full 30 minute A Sense of Place programme, journeying from Clevedon Pier to Weston.
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