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Tebay Services

Posted on January 30, 2019 by yawnthepost

A waxed paper sauce pot paradise.

| Tagged Coleridge, Cumbria, England, Lake District, M6, motorway, poetry, roadbuilding, Wordsworth

Bass Rock

Posted on January 26, 2019 by yawnthepost

An island off the east coast of Scotland, where gannets live within a stabbing circumference of each other.

| Tagged Edinburgh, gannets, Scotland, the Fringe

Chesterfield

Posted on January 23, 2019 by yawnthepost

Apollo 8, the first colour TVs, asbestos, plague and Chesterfield’s twisted spire.

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| Tagged Apollo, Apollo 8, asbestos, Chesterfield, England, plague, the Moon

Inner Farne

Posted on January 18, 2019 by yawnthepost

A boat trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands escorted by a squadron of puffins.

| Tagged England, Grace Darling, Hitchcock, Northumberland, puffins, Seahouses, the Farne Islands, the sea, wildlife

County Clare

Posted on January 16, 2019 by yawnthepost

Bobby Casey, County Clare’s fiddling superstar.

| Tagged Dublin, fiddling, Ireland, music, the Burren

Whitstable

Posted on January 13, 2019 by yawnthepost

In which Peter Cushing whispers to his roses.

| Tagged England, films, food, Peter Cushing, podcast, the coast, the sea, towns

Usk

Posted on January 13, 2019 by yawnthepost

Do not hope to find the white hart.

| Tagged castles, history, Owain Glyndwr, podcast, Richard ll, rivers, towns, TS Eliot, Wales

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    • Tokyo May 10, 2023
      The first of a two part interlude – Those Weird Isles: Japan. This one looks at Tokyo, next time, Kyoto.  Japan, Tokyo, masks, Noh, Kabuki, Shinjuku, Shibuya
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    • The South Downs March 6, 2023
      The South Downs is a one hundred mile long ridge of chalk laid down in the cretaceous period. Chalk is the remains of single celled creatures that drifted through the oceans around 140 to 66 million years ago. It makes up most of south east England and is a relatively young rock, but travel north […]
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    • Calder Valley February 12, 2023
      This is the ‘Happy Valley’ of Sgt Catherine Cawood, and the home of the Cragg Valley Coiners. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate was born here, his wife, Sylvia Plath, is buried here. We stayed in a converted piggery on a hilltop, where jackdaws tapped at the window and the fog sealed us off from the world […]
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    • Caerleon January 30, 2023
      A misguided attempt to record on site, an ‘outside broadcast’ which degenerates into a pub crawl. I’m joined by Caerleon resident Will O’Connell, a man whose knowledge of Caerleon you could inscribe on the little toe of the tiny toed ant. Most of this podcast takes place in the Roman fortress town in south Wales. […]
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    • East Anglia and the Fens November 21, 2022
      A trip to East Anglia, to the Fens and to Norfolk in search of finger in the ear folk singers, Brexit country and a vision of the future when the floods come and the UK becomes a minor archipelago, its lowlands lost and forgotten under the North Sea.
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      The dubious story of the Neanderthal twins of Tregaron, and the all too true account of the equally reclusive Stafford Beer, who played a part in world events.
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      George Orwell is on the Scottish island of Jura writing 1984, smoking roll ups and trying to shake off tuberculosis.
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    • Slough March 4, 2022
      William Hershel, professional musician, amateur astronomer, discoverer of Uranus, built a telescope in Slough so huge it remained the biggest in the world for fifty years.
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      Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in Bath. Jane Austen was there only a few years before. Maybe the two crossed paths.
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    • Tintagel June 26, 2021
      The Cornish pastiche: Tintagel, a castle on a rocky outcrop, is this Camelot? No, it’s not.
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