Ian Marchant

Ian
Ian Marchant is originally from Newhaven in East Sussex, and now lives with his family in neither England, nor Wales, but Radnorshire. His books include A Hero for High Times : A Younger Reader’s Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles1956–1994, the railway travelogue Parallel Lines, and The Longest Crawl, an intoxicated account of a month long pub crawl. For Radio 4, he has presented documentaries about talking trees, scary buses, ghost trains, psycho-geography, and the history of barbed wire. He is a regular diarist for the Church Times.
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