Marches

Rory Stewart and his father are undertaking their final walk together along the Marches – the frontier that divides Scotland and England.

On their six-hundred-mile, thirty-day journey, the pair relive Scottish dances, reflect on Burmese honey-bears, and on the loss of human presence in the British landscape. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.