9. Inventing Heaven – Great Langdale, lake district
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week Neil explores heaven itself.
Travelling back in time to the Neolithic and the inspiringly beautiful Great Langdale in Cumbria’s Lake District, Neil delves into the history behind the famous greenstone axe heads. Telling the story of our ancestors who produced them and finding out what them tick.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over Sort of landscape, landscape, it begs a response. |
| 0:27.0 | People have been responding to it |
| 0:35.0 | in different ways. Wordsworth responded to it in terms of his poetry, but 5,000 years ago, the Neolithic farmers |
| 0:39.0 | responded in their own way. |
| 0:43.0 | In this way, in their own way. |
| 0:46.0 | In this week's podcast, were climbing perilously steep cliffs |
| 0:49.0 | to discover a beautiful marbled green stone touched by spirits departing the earth and used to |
| 0:58.3 | make totemic axe heads a landscape in which our Neolithic ancestors followed the rising smoke of huge funeral |
| 1:08.7 | piers and seemed to have invented for themselves nothing less than the concept of heaven itself. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 1:34.0 | Your journey in the last podcast took us to the strange lunar-like landscape of Grimes |
| 1:46.5 | graves in Norfolk. Where are we this week? |
| 1:50.5 | We're walking in scenery of astonishing beauty to a place that always inspires and never fails to lift me whenever I visit a huge glacial valley, Great Langdale, in Cumbria's Lake District. |
| 2:07.0 | During the Neolithic period, the time of the first farmers, 5,000 years ago, people were making use of Great Langdale. |
| 2:19.0 | They were certainly using at certain times of the year the grassland there, the slopes of the valley for their cattle |
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