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Jonathan Kempster

Oral Historian(United Kingdom)

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Freelance Oral Historian and Audio Journalist.
BBC Radio News 1986-2021;
Imperial War Museum Sound Archive 2016-present.
Recorded interviews outdoors during COVID pandemic, some published in the podcast series 'Radio Walks'.
Born, raised, and walking in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Member of Institute of Professional Sound, National Union of Journalists, Oral History Society, International Association of Sound Archives.
Online jury member for Sound Walks September.
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plodge

The Scottish and English word plodging has been wading through the lexical muck and mire since the late 1700s, and it refers to icky, slow, molasses-type walking. Plodge is probably a variation of plod. This word isn’t totally out of use, as a 1995 use from British magazine The Countryman illustrates: “Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines.” Even if you have a spring in your step, it’s tough to skip merrily through the peat-bogs. Credits to Mark Peters.

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