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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 11, 2021 11:39:59 GMT
Thursday, (14th) at 9 pm
The actor makes his way across the barricade built to guard the Northern frontier of the Roman Empire in AD 122. He walks 84 miles from Wallsend, on Tyneside to Bowness-On-Solway in Cumbria. Makes a change from his fishing shows.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 11, 2021 12:38:44 GMT
Might watch, love going up to the wall - although I haven't been this year obviously.
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Post by geometryman on Jan 11, 2021 23:24:41 GMT
It's on my list. Apparently it's a 3-part series, though it's quite hard to track down this information. Also, annoyingly, C5 have indulged in their frequent practice of changing the name, which is messing up my recording schedule. Currently C5 and the printed Radio Times know it as 'Hadrian's Wall with Robson Green', whereas my EPG and the online Radio Times are calling it 'Robson Green: Walking Coast to Coast'.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2021 10:00:43 GMT
It is on my list too.
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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 12, 2021 10:34:38 GMT
Sorry, forgot to mention it's a three parter.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 12, 2021 12:28:48 GMT
I was heading up there for October half term - there's a wonderful brand new Youth Hostel with en-suite bedrooms, restaurant, bar and all mod cons they've just built and I had a booking that was cancelled. Next year, perhaps.
I like a little hotel in Haltwhistle - Centre of Britain Hotel - it has a rooftop terrace where you can star gaze in Northumberland's dark skies - plus two or three very good pubs.
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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 15, 2021 11:29:53 GMT
Good start. Told us a bit about his childhood at various stages of the walk. How his father taught him to swim, by throwing him in a river. He did a bit of geo-cashing, met a few other walkers, and met a colleague of his previous life as an architect. The Roman town of Corbridge was interesting. In 1964 Roman armour was discovered with some other artifacts. The modern Corbridge is just as bustling a town as the Roman one was. Robson introduced us to Pease Pudding, which i thought had gone out of fashion centuries ago. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 15, 2021 11:48:13 GMT
Pease pudding is used daily in sandwiches up here! It's a staple. Easy enough to make too, most butchers and delis have their own recipe - lovely with a roasted ham or ham hock. Often in a sandwich called a 'hot dip', where you would have either a saveloy or roast pork/beef with some sage & onion stuffing and pease pudding - all hot in a bun. Perhaps with a dash of gravy although that's not always the case.
It's very tasty and as it lasts a good while, is good hot or cold and is an alternative to other foods like hoummus. Plus it's all made of locally grown UK veggies and peas so no air miles.
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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 15, 2021 11:55:45 GMT
Thank you for that, beverley61, I did not know that. I am a southerner, and Welsh to boot, so there you go. I really do learn something new every day.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2021 12:50:08 GMT
As soon as he opened his mouth, I was imagining that it was being narrated by Michael Portillo. I am really not sure, at the moment, I really wasn't impressed with it. I don't know what I was expecting but, what he gave us, I didn't really like.
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Post by geometryman on Jan 16, 2021 8:12:47 GMT
Channel 5 has been my go-to channel lately for documentaries. I'm watching quite a few on it at the moment - Ben Fogle, Susan Calman, Rob Bell's London bridges, Tony Robinson, The Natural History Museum, some of The World's Most Scenic Railways - and I'd describe Robson Green's as average so far. Some bits about the wall were really interesting, whereas others - such as swimming in the Tyne - were completely irrelevant to the subject. Perhaps that's why C5 changed the title to Robson Green: Walking Coast to Coast - to manage our expectations more in the direction of centreing on Robson rather than the wall itself.
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