Thursday 13 October 2011

After the Flood

I only caught this programme on Radio 4 near the end but you could listen again. It sounded very interesting. Radio 4, Thursday 13th October 11.30 am.
After the Flood
Norfolk-based writer Kevin Crossley-Holland meets East Anglians directly affected by coastal erosion, including storyteller Hugh Lupton, the Bishop of Dunwich and the bellringers and residents of the Norfolk village of Happisburgh. They bring alive Kevin's short story Sea Tongue, about het myth of the drowned bells of Dunwich.
Producer Mark Smalley

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After the Flood
It's hard to imagine that the tiny Suffolk village of Dunwich was once a thriving medieval port. Much of it was engulfed by a great storm in 1286 but legend has it that the church bells still ring out underwater at certain tides, a legend that inspired Kevin Corssley-Holland's short story Sea Tongue. Here, extracts from his work, read by the people he meets, help to illustrate his elegiac thought-provoking quest to observe the effects of coastal erosion in East Anglia, beginning in Norfolk at Happisburgh's 15th -century church. In 50 years' time it may well have fallen prey to the implacable, gnawing power of the North Sea. Crossley-Holland also meets a self-styled King Canute striving to save the crumbling cliffs at Hunstanton and hears memories of the devastating 1953 floods in which 30 people perished in eastern England alone.

Can you see a film coming on with The Fog-like bells ringing out? Words like explosion and express train were used to describe the house cracking and cliff collapsing. That rings bells.

EROSION IS ON THE AGENDA.

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