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to buy gift and play, even though it's a gift, rules and procedures apply. The very earliest beginning of our story is of the most ephemeral, fragile will of the wisp nature.

You would think that something that was going to survive for a million years would be made of solid rock

or something equally impermeable and solid and hard. But the beauty, the paradox is

that this story begins with wet footprints in mud.

The first podcast in this series is the story of a chance discovery that led to a race against the elements, a glimpse

of the elemental powers that shaped this place, ancient evidence pointing us towards a lost tribe, human and yet not quite us.

A landscape of fearsome beauty that brings us face to face with who we are and our responsibilities

to the world. In this series I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100

remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

My story of the British Isles and I have to lay claim to it right at the top because I'm not suggesting for a minute that it's like a conventional history.

This is the story of the British Isles, as it has suggested itself to me,

based on the places that I have seen with my own eyes.

And all I really did was put them in chronological order.

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