Nik Wood-Jones takes on Wainwright's mantle on top of Helm Crag for the original podcast

Aficionados of the late Alfred Wainwright, cantankerous chronicler of the Lake District’s mountains, can now walk up Catbells with the voice of the author ringing in their ears.

Actually, it’s not AW himself, as his friends and followers liked to call him, but actor Nik Wood-Jones, who voiced an MP3 download for the original route in the series, up Helm Crag overlooking Grasmere. The free download has been supplemented by a series of audio walks which can be bought on CD for download to MP3 players.

Other fells include Orrest Head, Windermere, where his love of the Lakes was first kindled; Place Fell, Ullswater; Latrigg, Keswick; Haystacks, Buttermere; Helm Crag, Grasmere; Nab Scar, Rydal; Coniston Old Man and Catbells, ovelooking Derwent Water.

The podcast CD is accompanied by a booklet containing an introduction by Wainwright Society chairman Eric Robson, who spent much of his broadcasting career trying to coax anything more than monosyllabic answers from the great man on camera.

Wainwright: the Podcasts has been produced by publishers Frances Lincoln and costs £9.99 from booksellers and the usual outlets.