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Folk on Foot

Folk on Foot Classic: Olivia Chaney at the House on Hawnby Moor

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this classic episode from September 2021.


Olivia Chaney wrote many of the songs for her critically acclaimed second solo album whilst living alone without electricity or mains water at her family’s remote and crumbling farmhouse on Hawnby Moor in North Yorkshire. On a hot summer’s day, she takes Matthew Bannister back across the Moor, singing and playing along the way, circled by curlews and lapwings, to share the atmospheric isolation that brought her inspiration.

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0:00.0

Hello, we've now launched well over 70 episodes of Folk on Foot, and we thought you might like some help in picking out which ones to listen to first.

0:09.1

So, each month, we're going to repost a Folk on Foot classic, hoping you'll enjoy delving into our back catalogue, listening again if you're a devoted fan, or for the first time if you're a recent convert.

0:21.3

As always, we need your support, so if you like what devoted fan, or for the first time if you're a recent convert. As always, we need your support.

0:23.5

So if you like what we do, please become a member,

0:26.1

buy a t-shirt or just treat us to a coffee.

0:28.9

You can do all that at the links in the show notes,

0:31.4

or at folk-on-foot.com slash support us.

0:34.8

Thank you and enjoy this Folk on Foot Classic.

0:46.3

A few months ago, an email plopped into the Folk on Foot inbox. It said,

0:54.6

Hi there, Folk on Foot team. Just a note to say, I'd love to be one of your guests, walking around the North York's Moors near where I now live and where I wrote my last record. Do get in touch if interested. And it was signed Olivia Cheney.

1:02.0

Well, we weren't just interested. We were determined to make this happen because Olivia has one of the

1:07.5

most enchanting and beguiling voices in the English folk scene,

1:11.6

and we thought the chance to walk around the North York Moors with her was too good to pass up.

1:16.7

So that's why we're sitting outside the Hornby Stores and Tea Room,

1:21.2

in the village of Hornby, with swift's dive-bomiggers from the eaves of the building

1:27.6

and a river running past us and the lush green hills going up in the distance

1:33.7

waiting to meet Olivia and we're looking forward to an amazing afternoon. I'm I'm I'm

1:45.0

the

1:47.0

I'm Oh I'm

2:01.6

Oh

2:03.6

I'm So we just come up the hill a little bit and we're meeting Olivia.

2:27.8

Hello, how lovely to see you.

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