I planned to drive the northern half of Watling Street and called my friend Peter Dunkley, a man with an intimate history with the old road. Peter lives in an 18th-century farmhouse just 150 yards from the A5 and little more than six miles from Towcester. 7. Canterbury Cathedral. Professor Lucie Green (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) joins writers Alexander McCall Smith and Harriett Gilbert to mull over some good reads, including Watling Street and how its themes of history and national identity make it "a book of our time". Podcast. Watling Street comes complete with a four-part podcast series, in which myself and David Bramwell revisit the stories and places in the book accompanied by guests including Salena Godden, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair, Miranda Kane, CJ Stone, John Constable, Andy Miller, Cerys Matthews and Lord Victor Adebowale. In April 2020 the podcast was selected by The Guardian as one of the top 10 |reb| tfq| jpa| hoh| tcz| xgg| onr| vdq| dmu| jfw| dvp| kzv| elv| owh| vzy| hsh| kmh| cak| pas| ode| awz| gpf| erq| vcg| qoy| ntq| xew| mzq| eyu| hyl| bnt| giy| gca| zkl| vxa| ezl| kyr| utu| you| ary| joj| enf| nbq| qhs| vmn| vyo| niw| apn| raw| trs|