Fowey – the home of Daphne Du Maurier, of her many weird tales, including The Birds, Rebecca and Don’t Look Now, of emmets, ants, locusts and pirates. And you just better get the pronunciation right.
Category Archives: Podcast
Kington, Herefordshire
How a missing note (it’s a high B) helped build a billionaire’s empire.
Penwith
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.
The Countryside
The English countryside exists largely in the imagination. Much of it is a factory, and only 8% is accessible to the public.
Malmesbury
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.
Glanmore, Wicklow
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.
Rochester
Rochester, a city destroyed by an accident…and reborn through the fog of imagination.
The Pub
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.) Unfortunately this file is too large for this site – please search for it on Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon, Apple etc.
Searching for the Green Man #3 – Salisbury
Salisbury, Wiltshire – in the cathedral we find witches’ marks, protection against evil: against spells, Russian agents and maybe green men.
Roast Beef and Roundabouts
Many in the UK seek comfort in the past, whether the Celtic twilight of Camelot, or pride in the innovations of the Victorian era. But peel away the fantasies and we’re left with little – just overcooked roast beef and roundabouts. This is a rant about our obsession with the past – and obsessions in general, whether these are my own, or those of the nostalgic British public.