Richard Coles praises his much overlooked home county of Northamptonshire. A curious county, it once made shoes forthe world and had Stamford and Peterborough but managed to lose both It now has no cities and its shoe factories are derelict. For many, it is a place to get away from. It is our Kansas, and yet it is a place full of stories and a microcosm of much of non-metropolitan England. Producer Tim Dee