Over the last twenty one years the Dent and Sedbergh Oral History Society has recorded interviews with a hundred local residents from all walks of life. From this growing archive Anthea Boulton and Veronica Whymant have selected no fewer than five hundred and twenty eight excerpts from sixty nine contributors, a chorus of lively dales' voices telling it like it was! The result is a unique and captivating portrait of our community as it coped with a rapid transition from the old ways to mechanisation and modernity.