448- Katie Mingle's Right to Roam

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as “the right to roam.” The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people who called themselves “ramblers” and spent their days working in the factories of Manchester, England.

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0:00.0	There's a reason why I'm sharing my favorite Katie Mingle story with you.
0:04.6	And if you absolutely can't wait to find out that reason, let's give a head 25 minutes
0:08.4	or so.
0:09.4	But it would be cooler if we just took this walk together.
0:13.9	Come on, Rambler.
0:15.1	Say it with me.
0:16.8	This is 99% invisible.
0:19.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:23.2	When producer Katie Mingle's dad retired, he began walking.
0:26.9	A lot.
0:27.9	He'd always been a walker, but with all the new time on his hands, his walking took
0:32.2	on a forest, gumpian, fervor.
0:35.2	He started doing these really long, multi-day treks through the countryside.
0:39.8	And even though he's American, he mostly preferred to walk in the UK.
0:43.9	In fact, over the course of several years, he walked the entire length of Great Britain.
0:49.1	And on one of these many trips in 2003.
0:51.8	I was walking through this beautiful, rolling hills and wooded area, and there were just
0:59.1	literally hundreds and hundreds of pheasants and grouse along this trail, and you'd walk
1:04.5	along, and they would fly up in the air.
1:07.7	That's my dad, Jim Mingle.
1:09.6	I walked and walked, and it got later and later, and I realized I couldn't get back to
1:15.2	my B&B where I was staying.
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