Grasmere: Part 2. Farmers, Writers and Dialect

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English - October 29, 2020 05:00 - 55 minutes - 76 MB
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Previous Episode: Grasmere Part 1: Prehistory, The Last King of Cumberland and The Rushbearing

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In the second part of our two part on Grasmere we are looking at the people who lived and worked in Grasmere. We have guests Jean Scott Smith of the Lakeland Dialect Society and Taffy Thomas - the Uk's first story telling laureate and we have a peek at folklore relating to farming.

Additional Music: Marc Nellis @Nuancemarc