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Episode 3: Gervase Phinn: On the Camino de Santiago

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Gervase Phinn: On the Camino de Santiago

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Gervase Phinn recalls joining the pilgrims on a visit to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Novelist and memoirist Gervase Phinn, a former teacher and schools inspector, recalls joining the pilgrims on a visit to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, the network invited five writers with whom it shares a birthday, also turning 70 this year, on a birthday outing. Our contributors chose to visit a places that have some personal significance for them where they could look back and reflect on their feelings in this special birthday year.

Today, novelist and memoirist Gervase Phinn, a former teacher and schools inspector, recalls joining the pilgrims on a visit to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to pay homage to the relics of the apostle St James and to the act of pilgrimage itself. 

Essayist and reader: Gervase Phinn
Producer: Simon Richardson.

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Series in which writers visit a place with personal significance for them

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, five writers who also reach 70 years old in 2016 visit a place that has personal significance for them, reflecting on their feelings

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