Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages

Penelope is in Devon and Cornwall, a land of rugged coastal communities. She travels to a former silver mining village, a cliff-edge fishing village, the most exposed theatre in the country, and the small communities near Fowey Harbour.

Penelope arrives in the far north-west of England, learning about life amidst the renowned landscape of Cumbria. Penny finds there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops.

Royal Deeside, a remote, mountainous part of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, contains enormous estates served by tiny communities. Penelope visits the station built for Queen Victoria, the Highland Games arena, and the queen's vegetable patch at Balmoral.

Penelope returns to a landscape she knows and loves. She starts her journey in Sussex, where she spent her school days. At Burwash and Batemans she sheds light on the life and times of Rudyard Kipling, and his role in the war memorial movement.