Wednesday, 2 May 2018
993 Trespass Against Us : Power, People and the British Landscape
First viewed : 27 July 1991
This was a one hour documentary on Channel Four about land rights in the UK presented by the octogenarian Benny Rothman, one of the leaders of the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire. I had seen Rothman in the flesh a couple of years prior to this when he recounted his adventures, including a spell in jail, at a meeting organised by the Littleborough Peace Group. Rothman was a lifelong Communist - an association that's always made me want to keep the Ramblers Association at arm's length - and the programme reflected that with Rothman reserving particular venom for the Dukes of Sutherland and their role in the Highland Clearances. He died in 2002 aged 90.
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