A Tale of Harvest Festival
Paul Heiney visits Cornwall to learn more about the man who made Harvest Festival the celebration it is today. From 2002.
Paul Heiney ventures to the north Cornish Morwenstow coast to trace the origins of the Harvest Festival celebration as we know it today.
Evidence of similar festivals date way back as far as Moses and Roman Times.
However, in 1843, Reverend Hawker wrote letter to his parishioners. He suggests having what is seen as new tradition celebrating the harvest.
Paul examines the history right up to the modern day in which so many different crops are grown that the harvest never truly ends.
Producer: Sally Flatman
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in October 2002.
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