Offa's Dyke Association

PRESS RELEASE

Dated: 10th November 2009

Knighton on Radio 4 again

Thanks in no small part to the work of the Offa’s Dyke Association, Knighton will have its very own half-hour slot on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 13th November.

As we reported back in July, BBC Producer Sara Jane Hall discovered the town last year, when walking the Offa’s Dyke Path, and decided she must come back and make a programme about it.

Sara Jane started by contacting the Offa’s Dyke Association, which runs Knighton’s Offa’s Dyke Centre. Staff and members of the Association then used their local knowledge to put her in touch with interesting characters from all walks of life in and around Knighton.

In early July of this year Sara Jane and presenter Alan Dein spent a few days in Knighton recording the sounds of rural life in Welsh Marches. They dropped in on local farmer Russell Davies, attended an auction at McCartneys and visited the Spaceguard Centre on Llan-wen Hill. And of course they took in a section of Offa’s Dyke, in Pinner’s Hole. The resulting programme will be broadcast throughout the UK on Friday 13th November at 11.00 am on Radio 4.

An independent voluntary organisation based in Knighton the Offa’s Dyke Association has been working for forty years to promote the appreciation of the history and countryside of the England-Wales border. If you want to help the ODA you can contact us at the Offa’s Dyke Centre in West Street, telephone 01547 520 510.

More information about Friday’s programme on the BBC Radio 4 web site

See also July's article BBC Radio 4 visits Offa's Dyke Centre

Press release by Jim Saunders, who is ODA’s committee member responsible for press and PR.

The above photograph, by Jim Saunders, shows BBC presenter Alan Dein with Enid Davies at the Offa's Dyke Centre in July.

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