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these weird isles
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Psychic Investigations:
exploring the weird British Isles
12episodes
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Kington, Herefordshire
3w ago00:08:36Tap to summarizeHow a missing note (it's a high B) helped build a billionaire's empire.
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Mar 100:07:14Tap to summarizeManchester - a city with a history of radicalism, where Marx and Engels plotted the overthrow of capitalism and where Dr Dee summoned Satan. Thanks to Tim Mortimer of Workhouse Disko for the industrial guitar.
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Jan 2300:03:41Tap to summarizePenwith, at the far south western peninsular of Cornwall, the tip of England, where, above the coastal villages, there's a landscape haunted by megaliths and ghosts of tin mines.
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Oct 2100:09:32Tap to summarizeThe English countryside exists laregly in the imagination. Much of it is a factory, and only 8% is accessible to the public.
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Sep 300:06:15Tap to summarizeIn Malmesbury I found the tomb of Athelstan - the least well known first king of England. He was a lover of toast and hot air ballooning.
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Glanmore, Wicklow
Jul 1600:07:02Tap to summarize95% of the population of Ireland speak English as their first language. English is the first language spoken by the majority of people in Wales and Scotland. But these other nations reverberate with their ancient Celtic languages, they seep through, will never be suppressed.
Transcribe →Rochester
Jun 10, 202500:05:43Tap to summarizeRochester, a city destroyed by an accident...and reborn through the fog of imagination.
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The Pub
Jun 2, 202500:23:13Tap to summarizeMost of us spend far too much time in the pub. What makes them so wonderful? Four of us went to Bristol to find out. (Unlike most of these podcasts this one is recorded on a small hand held device. Quality is sometimes compromised. And we get drunk.)
Transcribe →Searching for the Green Man #3 - Salisbury
Apr 9, 202500:07:19Tap to summarizeSalisbury, Wiltshire - in the cathedral we find witches' marks, protection against evil: against spells, Russian agents and maybe green men.
Transcribe →Roast Beef and Roundabouts
Feb 17, 202500:14:02Tap to summarizeMany in the UK seek comfort in the past, whether the Celtic twilight of Camelot, or pride in the innovations of the Victorian era. But peel away the fantasies and we're left with little - just overcooked roast beef and roundabouts. This is a rant about our obsession with the past - and obsessions in general, whether these are my own, or those of the nostalgic British public.
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