Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.

It's that time of the week when we put out an episode of the podcast that went out years

ago that most of you won't listen to because you went in on the action that early on,

weren't early adopters of the history of podcast.

Well, luckily, you're here now and you'll be able to listen to it because it's a classic.

This features the Geographer Nicholas Crane, who many of you will know as the guy who presented

the television series Coast in Britain and went on to make other shows like Matt Man and

Town as well.

But in fact, he's a brilliant writer and has been both before and since those BBC shows.

I first came across him when he brilliantly walked from northwest Spain.

Sandy, I got a Compostela along the Pyrenees.

He noticed that you could walk from one end of Europe to another, actually, along mountain

ranges.

So he walked along the Pyrenees, skipped addled over South of France, got into the Alps.

Then from the Alps, you're in the Carpathians and all the rest of it and he got to Istanbul

unbelievable.

Anyway, you've subscribed to another even more important and brilliant book about the

British landscape.

It's a history of the British landscape and how much us humans have messed with it.

I love this podcast.

It was so interesting talking to him.

So I hope you enjoy it.

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