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Last broadcast on Tue, 3 Nov 2009, 23:00 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
Writer Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs, exploring its chalk path and its ghosts.
Walking the Downs on the Sussex-Hampshire border, Robert explores poet Edward Thomas' love affair with paths and tracks. For 20 years, Thomas walked what he called 'the long white roads' and 'frail tracks' of England's chalk country. Then in 1916, he enlisted and was sent as an officer to the chalk landscape of Arras in Northern France, with its far more dangerous paths. He was killed on Easter Monday, 1917.
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Tue 3 Nov 200923:00
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