Sarah Smout Along The River Wharfe to Fleet Moss

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The cellist, singer and environmental campaigner Sarah Smout takes us for a beautiful summer walk along the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire. Along the way she explains how her love of the natural world inspires her music and stops to play, sing and read one of her poems. Then we head up to Fleet Moss where a five-year-long project has been restoring the badly damaged peat bog - which is vital for carbon capture. Jenny Sharman of the Yorkshire Peat Partnership joins us to tell the fascinating story behind the work - then Sarah sings the song inspired by it.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading this episode of Folk on Foot.
0:03.4	Before we start, I just wanted to share a brief message.
0:06.8	If you like what we do, we really need your support to keep going.
0:11.1	You can join our wonderful band of members and you'll get great rewards.
0:15.3	These include access to our amazing Folk on Foot on Film archive
0:19.7	of hundreds of songs shot on location on our travels
0:23.2	around the UK and Ireland. To sign up, just go to folkonfoot.com slash support us. You'll also get
0:30.5	an ad-free version of all our episodes and an email postcard from me each time we go on a walk.
0:36.3	If you just want the ad-free version, it'll cost you
0:38.9	£3 a month, and you can get it through your Apple podcast app or at folkonfoot.com slash support
0:45.7	us. Finally, if you don't want to make a regular commitment, but do want to show how much you love us,
0:52.3	you can simply buy us a coffee.
0:58.7	You can also do that at folkonfoot.com slash support us.
1:03.4	Every penny we get goes back into making more episodes of folk on foot.
1:14.6	So thank you and enjoy the walk. I'm Oh, I do
1:29.3	do
1:30.3	the It's a beautiful day, and we're back in the glorious landscape that is the Yorkshire Dales.
2:02.8	We're in the little village of Hubba Home just by the River Wharf,
2:07.2	waiting to go on a walk with the cellist singer and environmental campaigner Sarah Smout,
2:13.2	who comes from this area and takes the landscape and imbues it into her music.
2:18.3	The Good morning, Sarah, it's lovely to see you.
2:54.8	And you, Matthew.
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