27. The Vikings Are Here! Brough of Birsay, Orkney.
This week Neil takes us with him to a place of stunning beauty with a dark and brutal past.For years the Vikings well-deserved reputation for violence and brutality left a bloody stain right across th...
24 Nov 202037min
26. The Vikings, Lindisfarne, Northumberland.
In this episode Neil takes us to an island stained with the first bloody fingerprints of an invader who would change the British Isles forever.Heading to the Northumberland coast, at low tide, Neil wa...
17 Nov 202035min
25. King Arthur, Northumberland
This week, on his journey around the British Isles, Neil takes us to Northumberland to meet the legendary, King Arthur.Climbing the battlements of the imposing Bamburgh Castle, swirling with mist and ...
10 Nov 202035min
24. Iona, Inner Hebrides
In this episode Neil’s journey takes us to a magical island where the landscape, the light and the very air you breath come together to soothe the soul.This week Neil sails from Oban, on the west coas...
3 Nov 202041min
23. Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent
In this episode Neil steps into an opulent Roman Villa grand enough to have housed the governor of Roman Britannia and maybe even put up a visiting emperor or two.Lullingstone villa, in Kent, was buil...
27 Okt 202037min
22. Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland
In this podcast we’re walking with Neil alongside the largest Roman artefact in the whole world, Hadrian’s Wall, the boundary of Empire. And we comes to a stop at a stretch of the Wall called Sycamore...
19 Okt 202045min
21. The Roman Baths, Bath, Somerset
In this episode Neil travels across the channel with legions of heavily armed, well trained Roman soldiers and heads to Bath in SomersetIn AD 43 a conquering Roman army invaded the British Isles and b...
12 Okt 202048min
20. At the End of the Earth, Inishmore
In this episode Neil takes us to a place of great power and beauty, an island off the west coast of Ireland, with its shoulder set hard against the mighty Atlantic.High on the dramatic cliffs of Inish...
5 Okt 202039min
