Kinder Scout mass trespass
Witness History

Kinder Scout mass trespass

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202610 min
  • Documentary
  • History

In 1932, hundreds of walkers organised a mass trespass on Kinder Scout, the highest point in England's Peak District. It was a major step in the campaign by workers from the industrial city of Manchester for access to the surrounding countryside, much of which was privately owned. In 2012, Simon Watts used interviews from the BBC archives to tell the story through the memories of those who took part in the trespass. Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony...

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Today we go back to April 1932, when a protest on a hilltop in the north of England helped build public support for the right to access the countryside. Simon Watts has the story. It's the early 1930s and a protest movement is forming in the northern industrial city

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