From Our Home Correspondent 19/08/2018
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. Garry Owen takes us to the west Wales coast and finds an Aberystwyth hotelier honing his plans to meet the competition from the hospitality chains. Sarah Oliver goes on an East Anglian road trip with an old friend she's not seen for years to discover how well their bonds have stood the test of time. Tom Edwards visits Cartmel in English Lakeland and finds that what was once a place of pilgrimage is again today but for reasons twelfth century visitors would definitely have frowned upon. John Forsyth unearths the secrets of a good furrow from two Scots about to participate in the European ploughing championships. And Jane Labous is in Biggleswade keen to discover why retraining to plant flowers in Beds is so popular there.
Producer: Simon Coates
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.4 | Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Michelle Hussein. |
| 0:09.0 | Our pieces this time include a recreation of a road trip taken 17 years ago, |
| 0:15.0 | two friends tour East Anglia |
| 0:17.0 | and discover how much they still have in common. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a busy time on the racetrack at Cartmel in the Lake District a place as it turns out with a long history of racing. |
| 0:28.0 | Did you know there is such a thing as competitive plowing? I didn't, but two men from Aberdeenshire are about to |
| 0:34.2 | represent Scotland at an international competition in Germany and we're in |
| 0:39.6 | Bedfordshire discovering why learning to plant flowers in beds is so popular there. |
| 0:45.0 | We begin in West Wales and the University town and long-standing holiday destination of |
| 0:51.6 | Abristwith, the life of the independent hotelier holiday destination of Aburistwith. |
| 0:53.0 | The life of the independent hotelier or guest house owner |
| 0:56.0 | can be demanding in a place where the weather changes frequently |
| 1:00.0 | and the attractions are traditional. |
| 1:02.0 | Also you might think. |
| 1:04.5 | When Gary Owen of BBC Cumry Wales went to the coast |
| 1:07.8 | to escape the recent heat wave, |
| 1:10.0 | he found one man whose lessons in running |
| 1:12.2 | a successful business have been patiently learnt over time. |
| 1:17.0 | If it weren't for Wonder Loaf Bread, I wouldn't be talking to you, Chuckles Richard Griffiths as we settle down at the bar of his |
| 1:25.2 | seaside hotel in Upper Erestwith. In the 1970s his dad was a manager with a company that produced |
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