"A week had gone by and with it 53 miles. Two weeks and 215 miles remained. I prepared a speech in the style of Captain Oates: 'I am not going outside and I may be some time'."

Barry Pilton's unheroic account of his encounter with Britain's most arduous walk, the Pennine Way.

Read by David Roper.

Producer: Thomas Sutcliffe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.

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