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The Hello and welcome to 15 Days of Festive Fear 2025 and we are on day number six and I am joined in the studio by the most wonderful, the most festive, the most intelligent, the most historically accurate man you've

ever met in your life, the wonderful Tim Cloak. Hello, Tim. I'm sure these introductions get

more and more complementary. I'm here for it, frankly. I need a bit of reassurance here and there.

Well, yeah, they do. And I also forget every time that I have to do

it. And then I'm thinking on the fly, do you know what I mean? Is the festive thing about my rather fetching Land Rover themed jumper that I'm wearing for you today? Yes, it is rather fetching. I'm very much enjoying it. The Christmas lights have just come on on the timer in my house and it genuinely is starting to feel festive now. So we discussed, didn't we, that maybe people are going to be using these as actually as a bit of a refuge from the festive festivities because some of us need that, don't we? You can get a bit overstimating a bit much. Yeah. And some people just don't like Christmas and that is okay. And you know what? If somebody turns around to you, right?

I know this is coming out, Stephen's Day or Boxing Day as people like to refer to it. Somebody turns around to you and they say, do you know, I don't really like Christmas. Don't turn around and go, oh, white old bar humbug, what everybody loves? Some people don't love Christmas. It's not just the Scrooge types, is it? Because there's plenty of very, very generous people who will be generous in their own way and not just at one time of year. For my part, though, I absolutely love it, especially when I get to stay in the kitchen and make the roast dinner for everyone, because there is no meal like a roast dinner. Oh, I agree. I agree. You know what, there's a little of food thing going on with this episode as well, but we all come to that.

I'm excited.

I'm excited. Oh, I agree. I agree. You know what? There's a bit of a food thing going on with this episode as well, but we all come to that.

I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. The Devon Delicacy, didn't I? Yeah, you did. And you referenced it in relation to the giant story. And now I'm like, I want to know what this delicacy is. I'm intrigued. Well, I don't want to over-hype that, but we've also had talk of plague villages.

We've had talk of witches and dogs being turned to stoke.

Yeah. delicacy is. I'm intrigued. Well, I don't want to over-hype that, but we've also had talk of plague villages. We've had talk of witches and dogs being turned to stow. There's been all sorts

so far. But this really is the second episode of my possibly final love letter to Dartmoor

tales, because I've done so many episodes on this. I don't want to overdo it. But knowing me,

I'll probably go on another one of my

wild camps and decide on another one, won't I? But this is going to be the second part of a

day-long trek that me and my very good friend, Lucy, did in aid of Mary Curry Cancer Care

back in October. I was very grateful to be supported by several real-life ghost stories, listeners

in raising money there. So this was part of an organised charity walk that we did, so we couldn't

choose the route itself. But it took in 13 of Dartmoor's tours. Do you think it's just worth

briefly mentioning what a tour is again? Yes, I think so.

So in case you're listening to this is a standalone episode,

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