The Wilderness Yet on Iping Common
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Celebrate the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness as The Wilderness Yet take us for an Autumnal musical walk across Iping Common near Midhurst in West Sussex. Singer Rosie Hodgson grew up near here and played on the Common as a child. She’s joined by fiddle player Rowan Piggott and guitarist Philippe Barnes to perform contemporary and traditional songs inspired by Autumn. Along the way we admire the spectacular colours of this glorious landscape, hear how folk music threaded its way through the band members’ childhoods and how their music is inspired by a deep love of nature.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this episode of Folk on Foot. |
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| 1:02.5 | of folk on foot. So thank you and enjoy the walk. |
| 1:16.1 | We're back in my old stomping ground of West Sussex to meet a wonderful trio of musicians, |
| 1:19.2 | Rowan Piggott, Rosie Hodgson and Philippe Barnes, |
| 1:22.2 | who together are the wilderness yet. |
| 1:24.8 | And they take their name from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem that goes, |
| 1:29.6 | What would the world be once bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left. Oh, let them be left, |
| 1:36.7 | wildness and wet. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Roan, Reyesie, Philippe. Good morning. Lovely to see you. |
| 2:06.2 | Good morning. Where have you brought us to, Rosie? |
| 2:08.4 | This is Iping Common and Trotten Common. They're attached to each other. |
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