As he nears his destination, exhausted and with sore feet, Barry feels the scenery might have been even more beautiful without the 'poison gas' signs, water works, abandoned army camps and rusting weather masts.

Barry is also a bit put out that other walkers don't seem to have struggled quite as much as he has done.

Last of five talks recalling Barry Pilton 's unheroic account of one man's attempt to 'do' the Pennine Way - all the way from Derbyshire to Scotland.

Read by David Roper.

Producer: Thomas Sutcliffe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.

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