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Summer fields at Redenhall - where playwright Arnold Wesker found that 'Huge skies lorded over the landscape dictating what would be seen and not seen'.
Follow the River Waveney (with its curves and bends tracing the Norfolk/Suffolk border) up to Ditchingham - where adventure novelist Rider Haggard viewed his farmlands from his study window. Listen out at Brooke for tales from George Ewart Evans, guardian of East Anglia's oral history, or at Low Tharston Mill - where 'Under the gate the river slams its door' - for the poetry of Anthony Thwaite and Edwin Brock. Enter the church of St Mary's, Diss to echoes of poet laureates past: John Skelton and John Betjeman. Return to the land with Doreen Wallace's farming communities, or to the haunting past present of Terence Blacker's Revenance (1996). Walk with William Wordsworth around Forncett St Peter, a 'lone spot' that he found 'with my soul agrees'. Pause at Gissing's pre-conquest tower where novelist Lindsay Clarke found 'the air, space and light of Norfolk soared through my senses like an elating gale, or step on stage at Poringland with biographer Adrian Wright.
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