The Dorset Knob

The Western Gazette and The Rampisham Transmitter

Published on 28 August 2011 by Knobby in Dorset

The Rampisham radio mast closure story makes the pages of the Western Gazette this week, but they seem to think it’s a television transmitter! Fairly typical of the standard of journalism in some local papers I’m afraid. They also manage to somehow link the story to The Dorset Broadcasting Action Groups campaign for a BBC

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An animated William Barnes reads his poem

Published on 30 June 2010 by Knobby in Dorset

I came across this on YouTube. Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem. Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.

Tags: animation, dialect, Dorset, Jim Clark, The Humstrum, William Barnes, YouTube

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