Sunday Feature: Dee

Poet Paul Farley traces the course of the River Dee, reflecting on the allure of what John Milton called the `wizard stream." In addition to passing the rapids of Llangollen, he visits Holt, where the Dee becomes the national border and where HG Wells, author of War of the Worlds, worked as a schoolteacher. Crossing Burton marshes with a wildfowler at dawn, he follows the migrations of birds, and finally visits Hilbre Island, where the Dee meets the sea and Milton's great friend Edward King was drowned