It's July 6th 2020, which is the first Monday after the lockdown was kind of lifted in England anyway.

And we're in London and we've driven through the bustle and the traffic of London on a Monday morning to an unexpected place, a really unexpected

place, the Hackney Marshes, which is over 300 acres of common ground. And it used to be used

for grazing. And in the Second World War, they used to bring unexploded bombs here and detonate them

and it's the home of Sunday League football with 88 football pitchers, 88 full-size football

pitchers here and 100 matches taking place every weekend.

So what a great place to go for a walk on this lockdown lifting day

and we've got a great guest to share it with.

Music Would you search through the loamy for me, climb through the briar and bramble

I'll be your treasure I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind

I knew the call of all the song words

they sang all the wrong words

I'm waiting for you

Johnny Flynn is an actor, a singer, a songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, sickeningly talented, I have to say.

Equally at home on the stage of the Globe Theatre playing Shakespeare or the big screen in the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma or on the concert stage in venues large and small.

And his music is both contemporary and reaches back into the English tradition.

And he's coming here today to take us on a walk, to play us some of his songs,

and to show us what he's been doing during the lockdown.

Music and to show us what he's been doing during the lockdown. Good morning, Johnny.

Fantastic to see you. It's a lovely morning, isn't it? It is. It's good. It's better than I expected.

Where have you brought us to?

So we're in the Waterworks Centre, which is an...

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