Episodes

  • The London Show
    Dec 24 2022
    In this special show we discuss London and Christmas: With Christopher Winn, author of I Never Knew That about London, Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, Mike Paterson, founder of London Historians and Footprints of London guide Rob Smith Get bonus content on Patreon

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    41 mins
  • Episode 13: Scotland
    Jul 8 2021

    In this episode Christopher explores the beginnings of Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, travels south into Lanarkshire to experience the world’s longest echo, then north west across the Clyde to Scotland’s most ancient capital before finishing back in Glasgow to find out where English comics went to die.





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    35 mins
  • Episode 12 : Southern Scotland Part II
    Jun 19 2021

    In this episode Christopher visits more of Southern Scotland taking in a pink palace that was once the only place in the world where you could see a Rembrandt, a Holbein and a da Vinci simultaneously, a loch where history was made, the romantic abbey where the world’s first sweetheart lies, the modest birthplace of Scotland’s national poet and the only place in Britain visited by the King - or was it?





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    34 mins
  • Episode 11 : Southern Scotland
    Jun 3 2021

    In this episode Christopher visits Southern Scotland, travelling first along the River Tweed in the Border country, taking in the baronial home of Scotland’s most famous novelist, two beautiful ruined abbeys with stories to tell and the world’s first vehicular suspension bridge, and then taking a ride to Glasgow on the world’s first pedal bike.





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    38 mins
  • Episode 10 : London
    May 13 2021

    In this episode, Christopher explores London taking in the capital’s first - and best - man made viewpoint, the room where a shy 18 year old girl became a Queen, an ancient secret garden, a house shared by two of the world’s greatest musicians, and a green museum at the gates a palace.



    Places to visit:

    The Red Saloon, Kensington Palace

    https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/history-and-stories/the-story-of-kensington-palace/#gs.0q6qt3


    College Garden, Westminster Abbey

    https://www.westminster-abbey.org/corporate-hospitality/venues/college-garden-summer-season


    Brook Street W1

    https://handelhendrix.org



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    40 mins
  • Episode 9 : The East of England
    Apr 29 2021

    In this episode Christopher visits the Lincolnshire Wolds of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the most beautiful building in the world in Cambridgeshire, an Englishman’s castle in Norfolk, the England we dream of in Suffolk and a cathedral on the edge of the world in Essex.



    Places to visit:

    Lincolnshire Wolds https://www.lincswolds.org.uk

    King’s College Chapel  https://www.visitcambridge.org

    Holkham Hall, Norfolk  https://www.holkham.co.uk

    Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury  http://www.gainsborough.org

    Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex  https://www.visitessex.com




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    37 mins
  • Special Episode : St George's Day
    Apr 23 2021

    In this special episode Christopher tells the story of how St George came to be the patron saint of England, and visits some of the places in England most associated with him.



    Places to See:

    Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) Palace of Westminster
    St George’s Chapel, Windsor
    Dragon Hill, Uffington White Horse, near Wantage, Oxfordshire.
    St Botolph’s, Hardham, West Sussex
    St George’s, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset
    All Saints, Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire
    St Peter’s, Barton, Cambridgeshire
    St Botolph’s, Banningham, Norfolk
    St Catherine’s, Fritton, Norfolk
    St Mary’s, Troston, Suffolk
    St Lawrence’s, Broughton, Buckinghamshire
    St Gregory’s, Norwich


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    18 mins
  • Episode 8: Yorkshire
    Apr 15 2021

    In this episode Christopher visits the northern capital of the Roman empire, the scene of the naval battle that secured American independence, the village where man first flew, and the setting for the world’s first moving pictures.



    Places to visit:

    York 

    https://www.visityork.org/explore/yorks-city-walls-p1188501

    Flamborough Head

    https://www.yorkshire.com/places/yorkshire-coast/flamborough

    Leeds

    https://www.visitleeds.co.uk


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    43 mins