East Meets West
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The UK may have a divide north and south, but how about east and west? Chris Mason takes a virtual journey from Whitby in the east to the Lake District in the west to find out. Chris was born and brought up in the Yorkshire Dales, straddling the centre of the country, so he has had a foot in both camps. But is there a real difference in the east from the west? Certainly the weather, the geology, and the landscapes are contrasting in nature. Chris Mason talks to artists, poets, farmers and journalists about their different identities east and west, and listens carefully as the accents change on his imagined journey across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | The Piper. |
| 0:41.0 | 80,000 children go missing every year, Sanjay, and most return within 24 hours. |
| 0:48.0 | We'll find her. |
| 0:49.0 | You don't know that. |
| 0:50.0 | Seven days. |
| 0:51.0 | It's left to us, isn't it? |
| 0:53.0 | Seven days. |
| 0:54.0 | This thing. |
| 0:56.0 | Whatever is is after us. |
| 0:58.0 | Seven days. |
| 1:00.0 | No. |
| 1:01.0 | No. He's here. The Piper, a new thriller starring Tamsin-A-Thwaite with music from Bat- Lashes and Natasha Khan. |
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