6-Holbeach-Boston-Horncastle
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' There is one deficiency; and that. with me, a great one, throughout this country of corn and grass and oxen and sheep, that I have come over during the last three weeks; namely, the want of singing birds. .. However, every thing taken together, here, in Lincolnshire, are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask of God.'
William Cobbett: ' Rural Rides
Ralph Wightman visits the same places and talks to the same kind of people that Cobbett met during the years 1821 to 1830
Extracts from ' Rural Rides ' read by John Sharp
Last of six fortnightly programmes
Edited by Eric Ewens
Produced by David Thomson