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From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Home Correspondent 23/06/2019

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 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.

Alison Holt considers with a Somerset family why adult social care is the policy reform no UK government does anything about. In the week of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Martin Smith asks how far the Welsh heritage in singing is endangered and whether it might yet be part of Wales' economic future. With the time-worn quips over an Essex town ringing in her ears, Jo Glanville discovers that established notions of Southend as a seaside resort with its best days behind it are out-of-date. Andrew Green looks at the idea of the bird celebrated in the most popular piece of classical music in Britain and the reality of its existence today on the Chilterns. And Dan Johnson contemplates the personal and social links between a stately pile near Barnsley and those who live in the communities close to it.

Producer: Simon Coates

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:05.0

Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.0

I'm Michelle Hussain.

0:11.0

This time around we're looking at the families desperate for better solutions

0:15.2

on social care, which everyone agrees are needed but never seemed to materialise.

0:21.1

We're in the Chilterns, discovering the complicated relationship between Skylarks, their habitat and humans,

0:27.0

how the proud tradition of singing in South Wales is being affected by economic change.

0:33.6

And the only way is Essex, but not necessarily

0:36.7

for the reasons you might assume.

0:39.5

We begin in South Yorkshire, perhaps more immediately

0:42.4

associated in heritage terms with

0:44.3

industry than fine architecture but the two have long co-existed around places like

0:49.6

Rotterham and Barnsley. BBC News correspondent Dan Johnson hails from the area and as he explains links between

0:57.0

the big houses and local communities have endured to the present, often in unexpected ways.

1:04.7

The lady at the crisp new ticket desk eyed us up carefully.

1:08.9

I think I recognise you, she said.

1:11.3

She wasn't talking to me. She was looking at my my sister my brother-in-law and my two-year-old nephew Ted

1:17.0

behind us on the freshly painted wall was a large photo of the three of them walking down

1:21.8

one of Wentworth Castle's tree-lined avenues.

1:25.0

Little Ted pointed and said his name, giggling as he recognised himself.

1:29.5

He'd become one of the faces of this grand old estate after his mom and dad had answered an advert asking local people to promote the reopening.

1:37.0

Now we're not an aristocratic family, we don't have our own plush country pile, and yet we've got a special connection to this place sitting

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