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Mishal Husain presents pieces on bank branch closures in rural Scotland, a flag-waving Cornish yomp, cheating in sport, changes to life in the Welsh borders and kitchen worktops.

Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.

We hear how a small Scottish market town is responding to the new that its last remaining bank branch is scheduled for closure; what a flag-waving, Cornish yomp through the sand dunes and encounter with a 1500 year-old holy man reveals about the place and people; how the English, who once prided themselves on not cheating at sport and their sense of fair play, are adjusting to a different moral position; why the forthcoming abolition of tolls on the River Severn road crossings may intensify enthusiasm among the English for living in Wales; and what a humble kitchen worktop can reveal about origins, belonging and what's in a name.

Producer Simon Coates.

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30 minutes

Last on

Sun 18 Mar 2018 13:30

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  • Sun 18 Mar 2018 13:30

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