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BBC Radio 4 - The Folk of the Pennines, Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm

Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.

Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm. He visits the Roman ruins of Vindolanda and meets up with folk singer Emily Smith.

In 1965, after 30 years of campaigning led by the rambler Tom Stephenson, the Pennine Way was officially opened on Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Stretching from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders, the 268 mile route has attracted tens of thousands of walkers over the intervening years.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary this year, Mark Radcliffe travels the route and meets up with poets, folk musicians, historians and local people along the way.

In the final programme, Mark travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.
He visits the Roman ruins of Vindolanda and in Bellingham discovers his ancestors may have been amongst the Border Reivers. He reaches the end point of the Pennine Way and meets up with Scottish folk singer Emily Smith who performs the Border Ballad 'The Dowie Dens o'Yarrow'.

Producer: Elizabeth Foster/Presenter: Mark Radcliffe.

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Mark Radcliffe walks the Pennine Way to mark its fiftieth anniversary

To celebrate 50 years of the Pennine Way, Mark Radcliffe travels the route from Derbyshire to Scotland and meets up with poets, folk musicians, historians and local people along the way

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