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Open Country: The Book, the Fish and the Dove

Series 74, episode 3

Helen Mark celebrates the life of fisherman, writer and philosopher Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, published in 1653. She visits the cottage in Shallowford, Staffordshire, which he bought and is now a museum, and joins a group of fishermen on the River Dove where Walton loved to fish with his great friend Charles Cotton, to learn about `The Art of Angling" and the legacy of Walton

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Helen Mark