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Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm

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Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm. He visits the Roman ruins of Vindolanda and meets up with folk singer Emily Smith.

In 1965, after 30 years of campaigning led by the rambler Tom Stephenson, the Pennine Way was officially opened on Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Stretching from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders, the 268 mile route has attracted tens of thousands of walkers over the intervening years.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary this year, Mark Radcliffe travels the route and meets up with poets, folk musicians, historians and local people along the way.

In the final programme, Mark travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.
He visits the Roman ruins of Vindolanda and in Bellingham discovers his ancestors may have been amongst the Border Reivers. He reaches the end point of the Pennine Way and meets up with Scottish folk singer Emily Smith who performs the Border Ballad 'The Dowie Dens o'Yarrow'.

Producer: Elizabeth Foster/Presenter: Mark Radcliffe.

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Thu 21 May 2015 11:30
BBC Radio 4 FM

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Music Played

  • Steve Tilston

    Pennine Spring

    • The Reckoning.
    • Hubris Records.
    • HUB006.

  • Karine Polwart

    Follow the Heron

    • Scribbled in Chalk.
    • Shoeshine.
    • spit-028.

  • Pete Coe

    Rolling Down The Ryburn

    • It's A Mean Old Scene.
    • Backshift.
    • BASH 39.

  • Kathryn Tickell

    Border Spirit

    • ON KIELDER SIDE.
    • SAYDISC RECORDS.
    • CDSDL-343.

  • Mark Knopfler

    Border Reiver

    • Get Lucky.
    • Mercury.
    • Mercury-2708874.

  • Roddy Woomble

    Act IV

    • My Secret Is My Silence.
    • Pure Records.
    • PRCD-021.

  • Emily Smith

    Dowie Dens o'Yarrow

  • Pete Coe

    The Pennine Way

    • A Right Song And Dance.
    • Backshift.
    • BASH 43.

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  • Thu 21 May 2015 11:30
    BBC Radio 4 FM

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