This is the Scandal. Hello, Martin. I love to see you. Great day. Do you want to sit in the front? Yeah, very happy. Yeah, hop in. Thank you very much for driving as about watch. Not at all. I mean, I was just driving in with Max and going, well, that used to be where the folk club was there. Oh, let's go and see it.

Let's go and see it.

Yeah, that'd be great.

We do a bit of that, and then we'll... Is the house where you were born and brought up? Still here? We'll go and do all that. Is there a blue plaque? Oh, yeah. Well, it's more sort of a grey plaque, to be honest. On a day like today.

Today, yeah. It's raining and bit doer, isn't it?

It's Tenois. plaques to be honest. On a day like today. Yeah, it's raining and bit doer, isn't it?

It's T'Nois.

Yeah. We're in a quiet, unassuming cul-de-sac of semi-detached houses in Scunthorpe, the industrial town in North Lincolnshire,

home to the UK's largest steel processing plant,

but of many a musical joke and blocked by some internet search engines

for having an obscene word in its name.

But this very street is also the birthplace

of today's folk-on-foot guest.

Martin Simpson has been a professional musician for more than 45 years.

Some call him a national treasure.

He's often to be found on the list of the greatest

guitarists of all time. He's been nominated for an amazing 31 Radio 2 folk awards and is almost a

fixture in the musician of the year category. His repertoire ranges from old time American blues

through the English folk tradition to his own award-winning

compositions. He's passionate about the natural world and constantly tweets his sightings of birds

and animals as he travels the country. So Martin's going to show us where he was born, introduce

us to his daughter Max, and take us on a walk in the woods on this edition of Folk on Foot.

...