60. General James Wolfe and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
In this episode Neil climbs the hill to the Royal Observatory and finds himself at the centre of time & place.Henry VIII’s hunting lodge where he kept his mistress of the moment once stood here. Then ...
12 Jul 202127min
59. Sat on a Volcano! Edinburgh
In this podcast Neil enters a city fizzing with new idea. In the late C18th and early C19th Edinburgh was the beating heart at the centre of what many people have called the Scottish Enlightenment. Th...
5 Jul 202134min
58. Captain Cook Sets Sail, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
This week we’re setting sail on a legendary voyage of exploration with the greatest navigator ever to come out of the British Isles - Captain James Cook. We follow James from the beginning of his adve...
28 Jun 202130min
57. Captain Cook - Where Dreams Are Made, Yorkshire
In this podcast, it’s 1745 and we’re walking along the cobbled streets of a busy, bustling fishing port, off to buy groceries from a young lad named James Cook. Staring out at the sea every day from h...
21 Jun 202123min
56. The Jacobites Last Stand, Culloden
In this podcast I’m taking you to a place that’s part of my ‘origin myth’, it’s a location that witnessed a bloody and brutal battle which is famous around the world. As a wee lad, it was here, that I...
14 Jun 202133min
55. England & Scotland United! St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
In this podcast we’re walking down the aisle with a couple who fought like cat and dog for years, but are now about to be joined in union. The Act of Union came into force in 1707 and England and Scot...
7 Jun 202133min
54. The Pitchfork Rebellion, Somerset.
In this podcast we’re landing in Lyme Regis with a swashbuckling Duke who is determined to be the King.Charles II’s eldest illegitimate son, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, lands in the west country wi...
31 Mai 202132min
53. Civil War! Lansdown Hill, Bath.
In this podcast we’re travelling the sharp end of a war which ripped the British Isles apart.King Charles I went head to head with increasingly bold Parliamentarians. Bitter, internecine politics and ...
24 Mai 202131min
