We've got off the train in Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, and we walked a little way away from the station to where we can just see the river running through a beautiful stone bridge. And let me tell you, it's hot, hot,

hot today. It's a hot day in June, slightly humid. But you can also see that quintessential yellow stone

that comes so much from this part of the world. So there's a river here, but there's also a man-made canal,

and that's why we've come here to talk to today's Focon Foot guest.

Music We're here to meet the award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist Nancy Kerr.

She was born into a folk family and as often toured as one half of a duo with her husband James Fagan.

Most recently, she's released critically acclaimed solo albums, making her mark as a powerful and poetic songwriter.

Music Nancy, good morning.

Great to see you. You're laden down with instruments. You've got the guitar and the violin. Guitar and fiddle today. Are you happy to carry them on the walk? No problem. Oh, you're stronger than I am. I have to say. We're meeting you in the beautiful surroundings of this Cotswold stone. What is this building? So this is a 14th century tithe barn at Bradford on Avon and it's part of this little country park that sort of is surrounded by on one side as you'll see in a

minute is the kind of beginning of the lip of the canal of the Kennet and Avon Canal runs right past

this tithe barn and then just the other side of us is the Avon River.

So we're between those two waterways.

And it's just a glorious place, a lovely green stretch.

And as you say, beautiful, historic building.

But yeah, we've spent quite a lot of time passing through this area

because we've been itinerant, really, living on the canal.

But definitely have a strong attachment to this area and to this stretch.

It's beautiful.

Well, let's walk around to the canal then, shall we?

Yeah, yeah. So the river's just there on our right the Avon and then there's a little green spot and we're just going to pop out onto the towpath of the canal and we actually used to play cricket here actually

we used to play little mixed sort of games of folky cricket

I remember with I think John Bowden and John Spires were there at one point

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