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Bill Naughton - Derby Day - 1. Off to a Flying Start

Bill Naughton - Derby Day The miners are on strike, as the town of Bolton awakes to the big race day of 1921.

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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores how each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

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Villadom in the Cotswolds

10/12 How the idea of escaping to the countryside is as old as the Romans.

Wed 12 Dec 2012 14:15 BBC Radio 4 Extra

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