Beatrix Potter in the Lake District
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Caz Graham explores the farming legacy of Beatrix Potter in the Lake District 150 years after her birth.
Caz Graham explores the farming legacy of the author and artist Beatrix Potter, in the 150th year since her birth. Beatrix fell in love with the landscape and wildlife of the Lake District, and used her earnings to buy several tenanted farms. She left fourteen farms - 4,000 acres - to the National Trust when she died.
Caz visits her old home at Hill Top where she wrote her popular books; meets the farmer at one of the tenanted farms donated by Beatrix, where Herdwick sheep are still reared; and explores her legacy on the farmland and landscape of the Lake District today.
Produced in Bristol by Sally Challoner.
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- Mon 2 May 201605:45BBC Radio 4
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