Kathryn Tickell attracts rather gentler, more formal commissions these days but the instructions that came with the heavy, beery suggestion her younger self would, not should, compose something in honour of a rare success for Wark Football Team at least added another good tune to her repertoire.
There are more good tunes in this presentation, which uses the words of witnesses and stories from a bygone age, with music and song, to paint a vivid, coherent portrait of the North Tyne valley and environs over the past 200 years.
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