More usually heard on the music channels, or gamely compering Top of the Pops 2, Mark Radcliffe’s genial Northern tones were perfectly suited to this three-part celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening up of the Pennine Way to the public. Episode one had taken our intrepid hostelry-visitor from Edale in Derbyshire to Brontë Country. Episode two (14 May) found him at Malham Cove in Yorkshire, commemorating the “noble vision” of Tom Stephenson – the route’s founding father – before heading off in the direction of Hadrian’s Wall.Like some of the itinerants met along the way, much of what ensued had a tendency to ramble. A tour of the Wensleydale Creamery, a stop-off in the village of Kell, where the Pennine Way meets up with the co
21 May 2015, The Tablet
Rambler’s guide
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