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4: Medingen to Bienenbuttel
In the fourth of his 'slow-radio' walks in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to Lubeck, writer Horatio Clare travels along the River Ilmenau from Medingen to Bienenbuttel.
In 1705 the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to L眉beck, there to meet his hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the fourth of five 'slow-radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches for his footsteps - and his ghost - the route takes him along the banks of the River Ilmenau from Medingen to Bienebuttel.
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