For the people of Wessex the waters of the western ocean have been their living, their adventure and their peril. To go to sea from a Devon farm or a Dorset village was no great step and no surprise.
Desmond Hawkins continues his journey through Hardy's partly-real, partly-dream country. with Nigel Stock as Thomas Hardy
Readers PAULINE WYNN and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo Binaural
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