Hi everyone, welcome to Ancestown's History. I've got an absolutely glorious podcast for you today

an interview with an inspiring man, an interview from the Lake District. That glorious,

well, district of England, full of lakes, but so much more, full of hills, frosty molland, glittering,

glittering lakes, picturesque towns, old Roman forts, high on craggy landscapes. It is in the

northwest corner of England and it is a thing of absolute beauty. It's where Pittrich's potter

wrote all her Peter Rabbit books for starters. Lots of other things to recommend it as well.

An man who knows the area really, honestly, better than most people alive, is today's guest,

James Rebanks. He's the number one bestselling author of The Shepherds Life and he's written a book

called English Pastoral Inheritance about his family, the land, love and loss, over three generations

of a Lake District farm, but his family stretches back, farming that terrain for hundreds and hundreds

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