(Six fortnightly programmes)
4-Royston-Ca"ton-Huntingdon Stilton-St. Ives-Ely-Cambridge
' About four miles, I think it is, from Royston, you come to the estate of Lord Hardwicke. You see the house at the end of an avenue about two miles long, which, however, wants the main thing, namelv, fine and lofty trees.'
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
Edited by Eric Ewens
Produced by David Thomson