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The Dales Diary [10/08/2008]
(Dales Diary)
The sound of the border country is saved for another generation, but is time running out for hill shepherd's traditional instrument?
During a hundred years of hard work by the Northumbrian Pipers' Society there were moments when the playing and music of the pipes came close to extinction. However, in recent years new composers for the Northumbrian pipes have reinvigorated the tradition, incorporating the instrument into jazz arrangements, and collaborating with internationally renowned artists like the Penguin Café Jazz Orchestra to bring the pipes to wider audiences.
Flesh-eating plants, blonde hedgehogs and other natural marvels await in the rural North East.
Charles Boden is a farmer's son who read English at Oxford University before becoming an agricultural journalist. Keen to capture what he saw as a vanishing way of life in rural England, he moved to Tyne Tees Television in 1985 to produce programmes about farming, nature and rural traditions in the region. He is best known for his film 'The Last Horseman' which followed a year in the life of the last farm in Britain to still use horse power instead of machinery.
