Walk With Wainwright's Voiceover
Free podcast gives original walk directions in Wainwright's voice.
Posted: 30 October 2007
by Jon
Walking the Lakes with Alfred Wainwright's voice in your head -
that's the promise of a new free guided walk podcast from Go Lakes,
the web puppet of Cumbria Tourism.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wainwright's birth, Nik
Wood-Jones - below - the man who provides the voice of the legendary
guide book writer for the BBC2 series Wainwright Walks, walked
1,100-foot Helm Crag above Grasmere, and recorded a commentary with
directions as he went.
Now you can download the instructions in 'Wainwright's voice' for
free, load them onto your MP3 player or iPod and set off up the hill
'feeling that the most famous fell walker of all is giving the
directions', it says here.
The walks combines the instructions from the relevant Wainwright
guide first published back in 1958 along with modern-day references
and Wainwright's original observations of the walk.
Ironically it was the first time actor Nik Wood-Jones, who is
based in London, had tackled a full Wainwright route. His voiceovers
were recorded in a studio in London.
"To have the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Wainwright,
as the man himself, was a wonderful opportunity," says Nik. "And I
hope it introduces more people to him and the stunning Lake District
which inspired him.
You can download the free podcast at www.golakes.co.uk.
Discuss this story
This Wainwright cult is getting out of hand. OK so he may have invented the Lake District and made all the paths by hand, but I'm all Wainwrighted out and wish he'd simply disappear into the sort of obscurity he claimed to want for himself (whilst craftily making sure things went exactly the opposite way). Lovely, brilliant, clever out-of-date books, quite nice drawings and poor photographs - end of story. Please?
Posted: 30/10/2007 at 19:37
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