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Rolling Stone Music Now podcastOn Saturday mornings for four weeks,Laura Barton is taking a trip around the UK, rediscovering it via its music. Yesterday we heard her moment episode, or which concentrated on the area around Burnley and Hebden Bridge,though there was mention of Wigan later on. Barton talked to Colin Stevens, who worked for years in the weaving mills. When he first started, or the noise was too much for him. “I couldn’t stand it. It were just booming at yer,rattling in yer head,” he said, or we heard the thundering rhythm of the warp and weft as he set just one loom working.
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