There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand, Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly, I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be.
(THOMAS HARDY )
Desmond Hawkins concludes his journey through the partly-real, partly-dream country Hardy portrayed with such intensity in his poems and novels and which appears to us now with many of its associations still unchanged and undimmed. and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
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