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04 November 2006
DISCOVERING ENGLAND
This summer Britons have been visiting Britain in greater numbers than for many a long year. Half timbered houses, saucy seaside postcards, Hovis and Horlicks, lighthouses and coastguards, thatched Cotswold cottages and clotted cream teas, chalk from the white cliffs and Stilton blue cheese.
John McCarthy travels in search of a lost England with Christopher Somerville journalist and author of Coast: The Journey Continues, Caroline Stanford, historian with the Landmark Trust and Peter Ashley, photographer and author of Unmitigated England.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo: White Cliffs of Dover
This week's guests:
Christopher Somerville is a journalist and author of several books on travel, walking and countryside. His latest book Coast - The Journey Continues accompanies a BBC Two television series which looks at our relationship with different regions of our coast.
Coast: The Journey Continues
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 0563493852
Coast: A celebration of Britain’s Costal Heritage
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 0563522798
BBC Two TV series Coast
Caroline Stanford is a historian with The Landmark Trust, a building preservation charity, founded in 1965 by Sir John and Lady Smith. It was established to rescue historic and architecturally interesting buildings and their surroundings from neglect. When restored the buildings are let for holidays. The income generated then pays for the buildings future maintenance.
In her job Caroline researches the buildings' history and writes about their restoration and refurbishment process. Caroline has stayed in quite a few of the Landmark Trust properties. Her favourite is always the most recent one she’s stayed in. At the moment it is Luttrell’s Tower, an 18th century Gothic folly in Hampshire with stunning views of the Solent.
The Landmark Trust’s Handbook
Publisher: Landmark Trust
ISBN: 0953312453
Peter Ashley is a photographer and writer and the author of the recently published Unmitigated England.
Peter has written and photographed the English Heritage Pocket Books, London Peculiar, Pastoral Peculiars, More London Peculiars. He has done a series of Everyman pocket books that champion the aspects of our heritage that most go unnoticed - from pillar boxes to telephone boxes, lighthouses to gatehouses, signposts to mileposts, manholes and coalholes. He has also collaborated with Philip Wilkinson on the books accompanying the BBC Two Restoration programmes, and The English Buildings Book.
Unmitigated England
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1841592706
Music:
Track title: England
Performer: Ralph McTell
CD title: Water of Dreams
Record label: Leola TPGCD23The BBC cannot be held responsible for
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