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The location-based puzzle linking landscape and local history
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Brett Westwood is back with a new series of the puzzle programme that explores the history of a place through its geography. Each week he takes two landscape detectives to a different part of the country and with the aid of local guides he sets questions that will help the detecives to find the lines that tell the story of the place. As usual the programme uncovers some surprises from neolithic industry to twentieth century warfare and gives insights into the lives of everyone from farmers to lords.
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Contact us with your Land Lines
If you think the landscape near you has the potential to make a Land Lines puzzle, please email details to landlines@bbc.co.uk
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Programme 1: Romney Marsh
8ÌýJanuary 2007 at 1.30pm
Invasions, water and lots of stones are all on the menu for detectives Steve Head from Pond Conservation and publisher Richard Purslow.
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Programme 2:ÌýBath
15 January 2007 at 1.30pm
Gods, buns, geology and water. DetectivesÌýbroadcaster and ecologist Paul Evans andÌýpublisher of Landscape Richard Purslow will be trying to unravel the city's history.
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Programme 3: Cheddar
22 January 2007 at 1.30pm
Pigs, starfish, a Royal Sovereign and a frozen waterfall. Detectives Sue Clifford from the charity Common Ground, and geographer Ian Mercer will be delving into the Mendips in search of answers.
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Programme 4:ÌýThe Marston Vale.
29 January 2007 at 1.30pm
Frogs, wings water and fire. This flat land near Bedford is the setting in which detectives Sue Clifford and poet and historian James Crowden with be discovering the past.
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Programme 5: Liverpool
5 February 2007 at 1.30pm
Crops, codes and crustaceans. Detectives Paul Evans and James Crowden will be exploring some of the byways of history that have been shaped by the land in this famous seaport.
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Programme 6: Shropshire
12 February at 1:30pm
This week Brett Westwood and his two landscape detectives uncover some of the mysteries and histories of three Shropshire hills.Ìý Kindly cows, wild men and broken stones all lead to an old pub beside the Long Mynd.
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Programme 7: Looe
19 February at 1:30pm
Brett Westwood presents the local history puzzle set in the landscape. This week - Looe in Cornwall, including a 6 mile hedge 1500 years old, the origin of Britain's longest long distance footpath, and the link between smuggling and pilchards.
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Programme 8: Fens
26 February at 1:30pm
This week's landscape puzzle explores the history of the East Anglian fens - 9000 wild swans, a gun in a punt and why water has to flow uphill into the fenland rivers.
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ProgrammeÌý9: Uffington
5 March at 1:30pm
Britain’s oldest hillside chalk figure, Arab nomads in a field of cattle, and an invisible blacksmith in a Neolithic tomb - all part of this week's landscape puzzle on the Berkshire downs
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Programme 10:ÌýLevisham
12 March at 1:30pm
The mystery of Bill, Norman and Harry and the deserted church in the valley - the last in the current series of landscape puzzles comes from the North York Moors.
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LandLineswas originally developed with the help of the charity which encourages the valuing and protection of local landscapes. Their web site is full of further interesting landscape connections.
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