76 Ireland’s Teardrop, Fastnet Rock
In this episode we set sail with Neil, past Fasnet Rock, fleeing the horror of famine. The Vikings called it Hvasstann-ey, ‘the island shaped like a sharp tooth’, the Irish knew it first as Carraig Ao...
2 Nov 202128min
75 The Great Hunger - An Gorta Mór, County Cork
In this episode a dark shadow falls across all of Ireland. A time of unimaginable pain and suffer, which has caused a deep wound between the British Isles ever after. It is known as An Gorta Mor or Th...
25 Okt 202125min
74 The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Dorset
In this episode as machines begin to flex their muscles the spectre of human poverty rises darkly and menacingly across the whole of the British Isles.In C19th Dorset a small group of workers came tog...
18 Okt 202128min
73 Discovering Dinosaurs, The Jurassic Coast, Dorset
In this episode Neil travels to the breathtakingly picturesque seaside side town of Lyme Regis. Sitting on the rugged Jurassic Coast the town was home to a determined, fearless woman called Mary Annin...
11 Okt 202122min
72 The Bronte Sisters, Haworth, Yorkshire
In this episode Neil strides across the beguilingly beautiful, wild Yorkshire moors to meet three sisters whose brilliance would shape and change the world of literature.Tough, strong-willed survivors...
4 Okt 202130min
71. Saving Lives at Sea, Smalls Lighthouse, Pembrokeshire
This week Neil spends time on one of the most notorious lighthouses in the world – a place with a profound sense of isolation and a dark history.The British Isles are home to an island race, and to su...
27 Sep 202127min
70 Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Victory, Portsmouth
In this episode we’re stepping aboard a legend. A ship built from 6,000 trees, 27 miles of rigging and 4 acres of sail. She fought in the American and French Revolutionary Wars and came to symbolise t...
20 Sep 202132min
69 Admiral Nelson, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
In this episode we’re walking with a hero of mine, Admiral Nelson – a man with a life full of high drama and adventure, violence and great passion.He was born near the North Norfolk coast in 1758, in ...
13 Sep 202128min
