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2: Schierke to Brocken Summit
In the second of his 'slow-radio' walks in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to Lubeck, Horatio Clare enters the Harz Mountains and travels to the Brocken Summit.
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 second of five 'slow-radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches for his footsteps - and his ghost - the putative route takes him into the Harz Mountains and up to its highest point, the Brocken Summit.
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