Episodes

  • Kinder Scout

    Kinder Scout
    Jul 16 2024
    Kinder Scout, a mountain plateau in Derbyshire, UK, where, in 1932 a mass trespass drew attention to the cause of the right to roam.
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    8 mins
  • Blackpool

    Blackpool
    Jul 2 2024
    Is there a link between anti-depressant use and deprivation? Why does Blackpool have the most anti-depressant use in the UK? What is the matter with us? Is it Big Pharma or something else?
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    12 mins
  • Looking for the Green Man #1

    Looking for the Green Man #1
    May 31 2024
    The first in a series of occasional episodes in which I attempt to find some of this weird isles' hidden green men.
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    5 mins
  • Camberwell

    Camberwell
    May 13 2024
    Remembering an afternoon in Camberwell spent with artist Tom Phillips, admiring his Humament, his Cloopseend, not to mention his Hairy Balls.
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    11 mins
  • Skye

    Skye
    Apr 14 2024
    The Isle of Skye, home of the Talisker whisky distillery and controversial psychiatrist and writer, Iain McGilchrist. Featuring the pithy analytical mind of my neighbour Lofty Hazelhurst.
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    9 mins
  • Colchestopia

    Colchestopia
    Mar 26 2024
    Imagine a perfect world. What would you do?
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    4 mins
  • Harrogate and Tea

    Harrogate and Tea
    Mar 19 2024
    Tea drinking in Britain was once a ritual, an institution. Tea was pivotal in two British wars, one with the embryonic USA, the other, China. Today, most tea is tasteless piss - a bag of dust dipped in a mug of boiled water - although grand old tea shops, like Betty's in Harrogate, try to maintain some standards, and hold back the rising tide: of coffee.
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    8 mins
  • Giant's Causeway

    Giant's Causeway
    Jan 31 2024
    Cathy was so obsessed with Led Zeppelin she flew to Belfast, then took a train to Giant's Causeway just so she could lie down in the spot featured on the cover of Zeppelin's album 'Houses of the Holy'. We visit singer Robert Plant's old home and I consider his fascination with the word 'baby' and Lord of the Rings.
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    6 mins