Launch of Powers Ian Mawby book on Exmoor mill.

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00:56 The spirit of Edmund the Younger tells his story.

01:00 My name is Edmund the Younger. I watch from my desk there.

01:07 I fought with Harold, my patron and friend, at Hastings three years ago.

01:15 I'm dying of my injury.

01:18 My father Edmund loves his home for thirty years, for that matter.

01:26 He's at Brompton Manor helping Gita, the mother of Harold, to pack her shackles,

01:34 as she must flee from William of Normandy, William the Bastard.

01:39 After her defeat at the siege of Exeter, she escaped back to her lands on Exmoor,

01:50 and her manor and mill on the Pullum River.

01:55 I lie here helplessly. I cannot move. I watch and hope that all goes well.

02:07 Then Gita came with my father dear to let me know and hold and bid farewell,

02:19 and say that after death my roots will still be here.

02:24 So Pullum's mill is not yours to sell.

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03:16 For the summer time is coming, and the trees are sweetly blooming,

03:27 and the wild mountain thyme grows round the blooming heather.

03:41 Well here go, I see he go.

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05:50 I was chatting to Jessie at her gate. There was a rumbling under our feet,

05:57 a terrible feeling of insecurity. The ground and the buildings trembled,

06:04 a great monster breathing, sucking and pulling the air back to the ocean.

06:12 The sun blacked out. A great wall of water thirty feet high

06:18 raged towards me and broke off the cottages.

06:34 I was taken in this turmoil of water and of my mind, of ways to save my unborn child.

06:43 I was thrown towards Jessie's cottage and dumped against a fence which collapsed,

06:50 then into an eddy that washed me through the cottage door.

06:55 I caught the collapsing stairs. With an adrenaline surge I pulled myself

07:03 by the shuddering step-like chimney. The effort of climbing to the surviving roof

07:09 broke my waters. Exhausted, I sat astride the peak.

07:17 Nature took over. Birth was inevitable.

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08:13 [Applause]

08:19 We move forward through the millennium to 1914.

08:24 The spirit of Frank Westphal, who at the age of 16 joined the Somerset Light Infantry.

08:34 They didn't go to the Western Front. They went to India to defend the borders of the British Empire.

08:44 Frank never got to India, but had adventure in the Mediterranean, in the Sunport Tunnel in Spain,

08:53 in the Spanish Pyrenees and in French Pyrenees. He fell in love with Heloise.

08:59 She fell pregnant with Francis in a cave in the Pyrenees, and they came back to live at Paul's Mill,

09:09 where Heloise and her son Francis lived until 1940.

09:16 When they returned to occupy France, Heloise worked for the resistance,

09:22 and Heloise's son accidentally shot his mother in the same cave where he was conceived.

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