Sample (5min) Day 8: Stow to Leicester
Whole Audiobook Part 1 of 2 (1hr 2min) Land’s End to Ferriby
Whole Audiobook Part 2 of 2 (49min) Ferriby to John o’Groats
About this Audiobook
When Rob Ainsley cycled the End to End, the idea was to go from Land’s End to John o’Groats eating only locally-produced food and drink. Which meant ‘energy gel’ was pork pie, and ‘isotonic drinks’ were cask conditioned bitter.
He hoped his route – carefully designed to take in the world’s strongest beer, finest smoked kippers, best deep-friend haggis and chips, and several distilleries – would involve fewer food miles than road miles.
It didn’t quite work out that way, and it turned out to be the wettest June for 136 years. But he had a great trip, and this lively, funny Audiobook tells the story.
It’s lavishly illustrated with specially arranged music, including the 17th-century version of Paranoid Android; Jerusalem in the style of Vision On; Schubert arranged for bicycle bells; and Singin’ in the Rain on bagpipes.
You’ll also learn how to work out the speed of passing vehicles from their horn, discover how Sir Humphrey Davy pioneered the rave, and find clinching proof that Shakespeare was a cyclist.
The book is narrated by the author with the help of some robots, who probably make more sense.
LIST OF MUSIC EXTRACTS
Synthesised music below was prepared by the narrator with Myriad Software's Melody Assistant program, using the Gold Base 2 sound samples
Classical guitar was played by the author
*Other extracts (adapted MIDI files, recordings etc) as noted
Intro
Jerusalem (Parry) in the style of Left Bank (the 'gallery music' from BBC TV programme Vision On, 1964-1976)
Jerusalem in the style of Highland bagpipe music
Jerusalem transcribed for classical guitar
Day 0
Food, Glorious Food! (Bart) morphing into Jerusalem
Adaptation of song The Elements (Tom Lehrer, after I am the very model of a modern Major-General by Sullivan)
Day 1
Do you know the way to San Jose? (Bacharach) arranged for guitar
Cello Concerto 'Farewell to Philosophy' (Bryars)*
Trumpet hornpipe (trad, later used as theme to BBC TV programme Captain Pugwash)
Day 2
Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon) arranged for guitar
Jerusalem in the style of Soul Limbo (Booker T and the MGs, theme to BBC TV's Test Match cricket broadcasts)
Laughing Policeman (Charles Penrose)*
Day 3
Jerusalem in the style of fingerpicking steel guitar
Day 4
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head (Bacharach) morphing into Jerusalem
White Horses (theme tune to BBC TV series The White Horses, c1969)
Day 5
Jerusalem in the style of Left Bank
Mars (Holst) morphing into Jerusalem
Postman Pat (theme tune to BBC TV series, 1981-2002)
Day 6
59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel) morphing into Jerusalem
Day 7
The Long and Winding Road (McCartney) arranged for guitar
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)*
Symphony No 5: 3rd mvt, Romanza (Vaughan Williams)*
Trout Quintet: 1st mvt (Schubert)*
Day 8
The Long and Winding Road arranged for guitar morphing into Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Paranoid Android in Shakespeare-era style
Day 9
Toccata in D min BWV545 (Bach)*
Roll out the Barrel (Barrel Polka) (Vejvoda) in style of accordion
Roll out the Barrel in style of brass band
Day 10
The Lincolnshire Poacher (trad) in the style of brass band
Die schöne Müllerin: Das Wandern (Schubert)
Water Music: Hornpipe (Handel, call sign for Anglia TV 1960s-70s)*
Day 11
Black and White Rag (Botsford), adapted from MIDI file rendering of Winifred Atwell recording
Day 12
Grand old Duke of York (trad) morphing into New York, New York (Bernstein) in the style of fingerpicking steel guitar
Grand old Duke of York morphing into New York, New York in the style of brass band
Day 13
Durham Town (Whittaker) arranged for guitar
Day 14
Symphony No 41: 1st mvt; 4th mvt (Mozart)*
Paranoid Android in the style of harp music
Day 15
The Old Castle (Mussorgsky) in the style of Northumbrian pipes
Smoke gets in your eyes (Kern) in the style of Northumbrian pipes
Move over Darling (from Doris Day film) in the style of Northumbrian pipes
Amazing Grace (trad) in the style of Northumbrian pipes
Day 16
Lucia di Lammermoor: Prelude; 'mad scene' (Donizetti) first by Joan Sutherland, finally by Mado Robin*
Jerusalem in the style of Highland bagpipe music
Bridge over Troubled Water(Simon & Garfunkel) in the style of Highland bagpipe music
Day 17
Singin' in the rain (from the musical) adapted for bagpipes from MIDI file rendering
Paranoid Android in the style of brass band
Day 18
Here comes the rain again (Eurythmics) adapted for bagpipes from MIDI rendering
Brass in Pocket (Pretenders) in the style of brass band
Day 19
Four Seasons: Summer (Vivaldi)*
Four Seasons: Winter (Vivaldi) adapted from MIDI rendering
Let's call the whole thing off ('Tomato/tomato', Gershwin) adapted from MIDI rendering
Jerusalem in the style of Highland bagpipe music
Money, money, money (Abba) arranged for guitar
Day 20
Wait in vain (Marley) arranged for guitar
Scotland the Brave (trad) in the style of Left Bank
Day 21
Clouds (Mitchell) arranged for guitar
El condor pasa (Simon & Garfunkel / Rojas) adapted for bagpipes from MIDI rendering
Well-tempered Clavier: Prelude No 2; Prelude No 3; Fugue No 7; Fugue No 7 (JS Bach; Glenn Gould, piano)*
Food, Glorious Food! morphing into Jerusalem
Jerusalem arranged for guitar
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