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Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country
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Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country

1986
1 season
5 episodes

When the young Alfred Wainwright first saw the mountains of Lakeland it was an experience that changed his life. As an old man he recreated his love affair with Lakeland in the company of Eric Robson, exploring Orrest Head and Kendal, Haweswater and Borrowdale. It was journey that culminated in an emotional visit to his favorite mountain—Haystacks.

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Cast

A

Alfred Wainwright

E

Eric Robson

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.In Limestone Country

    12-05-198628m

    AW and Eric climb Pen-y-ghent in Yorkshire's limestone country, discovering that its charms are as abundant below ground as above.

  • Ep 2

    2.On Lakeland's Far Eastern Fells

    19-05-198629m

    AW shows Eric Robson some of the delights still to be discovered above Haweswater. They enter the valley on the "Old Corpse Road" from Shap and survey its full extent at the summit...

  • Ep 3

    3.On the Pennine Way

    26-05-198629m

    Twenty years after AW published his pictorial guide to The Pennine Way, he guides Eric Robson through perhaps the finest section beginning at Wynch Bridge in Teesdale and finishing...

  • Ep 4

    4.On the Howgill Fells

    02-06-198630m

    AW introduces Eric Robson to this neglected group of Cumbrian hills just north of Sedbergh. In addition to viewing the spectacular waterfall at Cautley Spout, reliving the history...

  • Ep 5

    5.On the Lakeland Fells

    09-06-198630m

    In an emotional journey, AW returns with Eric Robson to the places that hold special memories—to Orrest Head ("an awakening beauty"), to Borrowdale ("the loveliest square mile in L...

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