4 Women - 40 Instruments - The Recorder Quartet Flautando Köln

Harold Fry receives a letter from his former work colleague Queenie. She lies terminally ill in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold is shocked. Because it is important to him that his reply reaches Queenie soon, he immediately sets off for the letterbox. But against all expectations, this walk turns into a ramble across the whole of the United Kingdom - all the way up to the far north. As long as he walks, Harold is convinced, Queenie will live. In 87 days he covers more than 1000 kilometres - a journey he has to endure every day. For Queenie. For his family. For himself. And for all of us: after all, the journey is the destination.

In this programme we follow the "unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry", the moving bestseller by Rachel Joyce, to a very special place of pilgrimage. And because the stations here are not consecrated places of the Way of the Cross but focal points of memory, mistakes, failures, dreams and disappointments, we also accompany the journey with very special music: from well-known and beloved pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach to atmospheric compositions of our present day by Fulvio Caldini and Racheal Cogan.