Episode 4
The poet Simon Armitage has some vodka-fuelled walking companions in Port Isaac and encounters a Frank Sinatra impersonator in Padstow.
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour (an experience recounted in his bestseller Walking Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ), Simon Armitage has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction, far from home.
The restless poet swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish.
From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula, then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect from one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.
A Pier production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Author | Simon Armitage |
Broadcasts
- Thu 18 Jun 2015 09:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Fri 19 Jun 2015 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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