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In a short series for Â鶹Éç Radio Solent, Bruce Parker taps into the south's rich history.

With the help of experts from across Hampshire Dorset and the Isle of Wight and using Â鶹Éç South’s archive.

This week Bruce looks at the South’s literary connections.

He meets Charles Dickens’ Great Great Grandson Ian and talks about life as a descendent of one of the great Britons.

Chris Jarman, Deputy Chair of the Farringford Tennyson Society talks about the life of Lord Tennyson and his Isle of Wight home.

Bruce takes a literary tour of Winchester visiting the home of Jane Austen, areas that John Keates wrote about and the water meadows made famous by Isaac Walton.

And Jacqueline Dillion of the Thomas Hardy Society talks about the life, works and homes of the Dorset author.

For those travelling across the south of England today, there is travel news as it happens.

Â鶹Éç Radio Solent offers a choice of listening on a Sunday evening, with Bruce on 96.1 and 103.8FM, on 999 and 1359 AM and on the Â鶹Éç iPlayer.
The Paul Miller Soul Show is on digital radio and the Â鶹Éç iPlayer.

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