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🗓️ 9 September 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult? |
0:06.0 | What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are? |
0:10.0 | I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti. I saw a footprint and that really gave me gusmas. |
0:16.4 | Or people who knew me. Emme, I remember every secret, every lie. I'm the only one who knows the truth. |
0:23.0 | Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003. |
0:27.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading this program from Radio 4. |
0:33.0 | If I am walking with a man, |
0:35.0 | and we pass an urchin, fishing with a bent pin in a ditch, |
0:38.0 | and my companion is unwilling to linger, |
0:40.0 | I suspect that he is a poor specimen of a human being and I am certain that he is no |
0:45.6 | fisherman. In any case I should not be keen to go for a walk with that man again. |
0:51.5 | One of our most famous children's authors from 1949 reading his work On Watching Fisherman. |
0:58.7 | If it conjures up images of an English idle long gone, then his books featuring the fictional children who camp, sail |
1:06.4 | and inhabit the natural splendour of the English lakes in the 1920s do so even more. His work recalls a lost era of childhood, pre-health and safety, pre-watchful helicopter |
1:19.1 | parenting. Our great life this week is Arthur Ransom. Swallows and Amazons, his series of 12 novels |
1:27.0 | featuring the outdoor adventures of the fictional Walker Children, mainly set in the Lake District, is the work he's best known for, and it's what has inspired |
1:35.8 | my guest today. The singer, songwriter and poet Labby Sifrey to nominate him. |
1:41.8 | Labby, was this childhood idl purely fictional for you or was your |
1:46.9 | childhood like that? I would have liked my childhood to be like that because as a |
1:51.1 | child I always wanted to live in the country. In fact, one of my memorable |
1:56.0 | holidays was a holiday in Kendall. Rather than me read out your CV, which is quite incredible. |
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