Kate Stables and Winchester
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Kate Stables and Winchester

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202625 min

Musician Kate Stables visits her favourite spots in Winchester to find out more about the area that she used to call home. From St Catherine's Hill you can see across the whole city. It's where Kate flew kites, and celebrated her wedding - and with the help of archaeologist David Ashby she finds out about the iron-age settlement and medieval chapel that once adorned the landscape. Dropping down to the River Itchen, Kate and conservationist Rachel Remnant dip their toes into chalk streams, before heading to Cowslip Field to find out how the ancient skill of scything can feel...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm not going to do anything with this. My mother is going to do a lot of work. She's going to do a lot of work.

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She's going to do a lot of work. I'm going to do a lot of work in the private banking system. I'm going to do a lot of work in the real world. I'm going to do a lot of work in the real world.

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I'm going to do a lot of work in the real world. I'm going to do a lot of work in the private banking system. So there are a couple of ways up the hill. You can either go up this really steep bit and get totally puffed out or you can go around some steps there and

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