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Walking a Stick Back Home
Friday 23 May 2008 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Poet and historian James Crowden inherited a walking stick formerly belonging to 19th-century author Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Accompanied by biographer Grevel Linop, he takes it home via Edinburgh to Wordsworth's Dove Cottage.