Episodes

  • Kington, Herefordshire

    Kington, Herefordshire
    May 31 2026
    How a missing note (it's a high B) helped build a billionaire's empire.
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    9 mins
  • Manchester

    Manchester
    Mar 1 2026
    Manchester - a city with a history of radicalism, where Marx and Engels plotted the overthrow of capitalism and where Dr Dee summoned Satan. Thanks to Tim Mortimer of Workhouse Disko for the industrial guitar.
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    7 mins
  • Penwith

    Penwith
    Jan 23 2026
    Penwith, at the far south western peninsular of Cornwall, the tip of England, where, above the coastal villages, there's a landscape haunted by megaliths and ghosts of tin mines.
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    4 mins
  • The Countryside

    The Countryside
    Oct 21 2025
    The English countryside exists laregly in the imagination. Much of it is a factory, and only 8% is accessible to the public.
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    10 mins
  • Malmesbury

    Malmesbury
    Sep 3 2025
    In Malmesbury I found the tomb of Athelstan - the least well known first king of England. He was a lover of toast and hot air ballooning.
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    6 mins
  • Glanmore, Wicklow

    Glanmore, Wicklow
    Jul 16 2025
    95% of the population of Ireland speak English as their first language. English is the first language spoken by the majority of people in Wales and Scotland. But these other nations reverberate with their ancient Celtic languages, they seep through, will never be suppressed.
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    7 mins
  • Rochester

    Rochester
    Jun 10 2025
    Rochester, a city destroyed by an accident...and reborn through the fog of imagination.
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    6 mins
  • The Pub

    The Pub
    Jun 2 2025
    Most of us spend far too much time in the pub. What makes them so wonderful? Four of us went to Bristol to find out. (Unlike most of these podcasts this one is recorded on a small hand held device. Quality is sometimes compromised. And we get drunk.)
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    23 mins