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Today I'm saying hello from the very top of Horswater Dam in the heart of the Lake District.

Being aloft 190,000 tonnes of stone and 30,000 tonnes of cement on a

small walkway with only a waist-high wall separating me from 80 billion litres of water is pretty

terrifying, I can tell you. Though not to worry, they've painted the steps, especially so we don't trip,

so I'm sure it'll all be fine. All around are those majestic peaks familiar to Lake District visitors

and totally breath-catching on first sight.

In this charged, vital, visceral landscape,

immortalised by writers since Wordsworth wrote about his daffodils,

we'll be embarking on our first in a series of programmes

exploring Britain's literary landscape.

My guide to this romantically celebrated area of northwest England is the award-winning

writer Sarah Hall, this year featured on Granta's coveted list of the best 20 writers under 40.

Sarah is a native of the area, spending her childhood in a cottage just to the east of here

and returns to this landscape frequently in her fiction. Her award-winning debut, Horswater,

provides a fictional account of the construction of the very dam we're now standing on. Sarah,

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