4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A literary ramble through the Yorkshire moors and the work they have inspired, from the Brontes to Sylvia Plath. With authors Ross Raisin, Will Atkins and Professor John Bowen.
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0:48.6 | Oh no, I really hate these cattle grids. |
0:51.9 | I always think I'm going to slip and break my ankle. |
0:54.6 | This might be the moment today. I think I've just got no sense of balance at all. |
1:05.4 | Hello, today I'm ankle deep in heather, or at least when I'm not walking on the gravelly parts of the Pennine Way. I've got my walking boots on and I'm making my way over rocks and narrow crags. |
1:16.0 | I'm looking at over a vast sea of golden and purple peatland and hoping that the weather up here |
1:22.1 | doesn't change, which might be wishful thinking at the moment. We've got lovely sunshine and a balmy breeze, |
1:27.8 | but there are some black clouds on the horizon. |
1:30.7 | I'm on Haworthmore, part of the Yorkshire heaths that rise in the Pennines, |
1:35.0 | and I'm making my way across it to a derelict shell of an old farmhouse, |
1:39.7 | rumoured to be the site that Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is based on. |
1:43.9 | This is bona fide Bronte country. |
1:46.9 | They loom large in these vast expanses of moorland |
1:49.9 | and have cast a weighty shadow over other authors |
1:53.1 | who have tried and sometimes failed |
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