Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon,

and I make podcasts for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. But when I started

commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right

mixture of sounds could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories

that make you go wow like I did,'re just a tap or click away on BBC

sounds you're listening to a podcast from BBC Radio 4 this is ramblings with me

claire balding we have been extremely lucky so far in this new series of ramblings because we

haven't yet got rained on now Now, that could change today.

I've come to Shropshire about 10 miles south of Shrewsbury

to walk an area that was extensively written about

by the children's author Malcolm Saville.

And I'm with the founder of the Malcolm Saville Society, Mark O'Hanlon.

Some people will immediately go, Malcolm Saville, oh, I read him as a child, I loved him,

and others will go, who?

So who was he? When was he writing?

And with whom was he popular?

Okay, well, Malcolm Saville was a children's author who started writing for children in 1943.

So his actual run of books, I mean, started in 1943 and went right through to

when he passed away in 1982. But what set his fiction apart from many other authors of his day

was that he actually set them in real places that you could explore for yourself. And he actually

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