Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

← Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts5 sept. · 43 min

Episode 2.88 - One-Tooth Charlie and Glacial Water

Episode 2.88 - One-Tooth Charlie and Glacial Water5 sept.43 min

Send us Fan Mail On a grey but mild early-September morning at High Ash Farm, Chris Skinner and Matthew Gudgin slip through a gap in the hedge onto Hallback Lane and stand beside a remarkable hollow tree known locally as the Africa Tree. Around 500 years old and pollarded two centuries ago, its great cavity faces them in the almost exact shape of the African continent. The tree becomes the doorway into Chris’s childhood memories of Charlie Graver, a diminutive farm worker who left school at t...