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Discover Hidden Britain brings you On The Road with us to Tiddesley Wood near Pershore in Worcestershire. Seemingly surrounded by apple and plum orchards ripe for cider and sampling, come with us as we head into this historic woodland with its ancient links to church and state. As always, the air is alive with seasonal goodness, bird song and native wildlife as we amble along...This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.comMusic: https://www.purple-planet.com

Back We Come For Series 2 On The Road - Come Take an Autumn Walk with Discover Hidden Britain. Come with us as we set off into the British woodland on a circular wander spotting signs of autumn and signs of nature as we head into the English countryside walking boots on and eyes up! This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.comAnd for more pictures of the walk associated with this podcast head over to our blog... Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Back We Come For Series 2 - Discover Hidden Britain returns with plans for the new podcasts this series - 'On The Road' - and give you a taster of our itinerary! We want you to come with us as we venture out with Discover Hidden Britain into the landscape - Britain in Autumn and Winter. So step outside with us as we tell the tales of this extraordinary island at distance... and just because - this podcast brings you the story of an amazing engineer and mechanic who saved the pilots of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain - Beatrice Shilling and Shilling's Penny.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Who doesn't love a castle? Who cares whether it's a hill fort, a motte and bailey, a Norman keep or the wonderful concentric castles? For there is plenty of all those round these parts in Britain. But in this episode, Discover Hidden Britain takes you through some of the Marcher Castles - once of the mighty Marcher Lords - the area along the English and Welsh border sometimes known as the Marches. This is the history of conflict, of power, of money, power and prestige. And of course - castle building at its finest!This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

It seems entirely in keeping with this legend of English Literature that Thomas Hardy's heart should remain in Dorset. No literally. For this writer, novelist and poet was a man of Dorset and the land of his home and his childhood was the setting for most of his creative works. His Wessex. Listen as we discover more of the man, his works and his legacy and more pivotally in fact as to how he ended up with his heart in Stinsford in Dorset and the rest, well, the rest in London!This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Explore Classical Music Composer Edward Elgar's England with Discover Hidden Britain. Step into Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills - his inspiration and his home. Discover the cottage he once called home, the places Elgar explored and ventured like Mordiford and Upton, and of course the landscape which inspired this self-taught composer and conductor to write the music he left to the classical musical landscape. From Land of Hope and Glory to Nimrod - this British island of ours is in his music.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Sometimes history tells us of something so bonkers that it must be true - that two men in a field in rural Northamptonshire could test out some scientific innovation that would save hundreds, possibly thousands of lives in the Second World War, in the Daventry Experiment in 1935. Welcome to the innovation of Radio Detection - known more widely as RADAR. And the village that never knew anything until long after the war had gone past about the role they had played in the Battle of Britain and allowing Britain to hang on in there when the Few were taking a pounding!This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Sometimes nature is the best medicine. The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire is a contradiction - an industrial forest with the heart of iron and coal, a history of mining and smelting, of charcoal and timber production but a Forest that now savours its walkers, its bikers and its naturalists. The Forest of Dean is no longer about what we can take from the Forest but now what the landscape offers us in terms of fresh air, exercise and relaxation. The nature reserve at Nagshead is one such example - where trees planted for war have become havens of peace for the birds and for humanity. This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Explore the historic old harbourside of Portsmouth with Discover Hidden Britain. A step away from the popular shipyard and commercial shops following the chain-link Millennium Trail towards the old seawalls, the Napoleonic fortifications and of course where water meets land on the Solent. Where sea air prevails and exploration is just about putting one foot in front of another.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Take an amble with Discover Hidden Britain on the long distance walking trail of the National Trail's Cotswolds Way in Gloucestershire. Get an up close study of one stretch around Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge with a stop at Tyndale's Monument. Learn of religious change, the Reformation and the role and commemoration of William Tyndale. Martyr, Translator of Bibles and local legend.  This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.    For more information, head over to our websitehttps://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

One of the hidden stories from Llanwern in Monmouthshire in South Wales - Lord Rhonddha, David Thomas and his Suffragette daughter Margaret Haig Thomas. The lost estate of Llanwern. The Coal Mining Hey Days of South Wales. The Sinking of HMS Lusitania. A fight for Women's Rights. A fight for justice. But simply a story about a father and a daughter. This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website https://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

When is a beach not just a beach - when there is a story to tell. The North Devon coastline is some of the most breath-taking and atmospheric in Britain. In this podcast, Discover Hidden Britain explores the coastline and beaches from Barnstaple to Ilfracombe. From the delights of Saunton, the cultish Croyde to the inspiring history of Woolacombe. This is Discover Hidden Britain on the beach.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website https://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com  Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Welcome to the flatlands of Norfolk - the Brecks, the Forests and the sights around Thetford. From tree-lined forests to heathland, from American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, Captain's Mainwaring's Dad's Army to the last Sikh Maharajah Duleep Singh. This part of Norfolk is all things to so many people. This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website https://www.discoverhiddenbritain.com  Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Follow us down this rabbit hole. For many Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is the cornerstone of childish imagination and dreams but the man behind the name was actually one Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. In a quiet backwater village of Vowchurch in Herefordshire, Discover Hidden Britain shines a light on an unlikely connection to the Alice author, Lewis Carroll and his family, namely one Skeffington Hume Dodgson. Brother. Curiouser and curiouser...This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website  Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Vanished. Deserted. Disappeared. Don't we all love a mystery? The village of Wharram Percy in East Yorkshire is a tale of a medieval village that has come and gone. It has ceased to be - and like many of the thousands of villages that have disappeared from this island, there is a tale to be told. Discover Hidden Britain tracks the story of this Yorkshire village - of Vikings, of Normans and Saxons and of archaeologists... to find the heart of this place and the ghosts that are left behind.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website  Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

They say trees are like people. And that ancient trees speak to us as witnesses of a time long ago. The aged yew tree at Much Marcle in rural Herefordshire is one such tree. Born perhaps a millennia or three ago. Ancient. Contorted. Resilient. Beautiful in its own ways. In this podcast, Discover Hidden Britain speaks of trees, wonderful trees and this particular British yew tree and the stories that only it has to tell us. This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.  For more information, head over to our website  Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Discover the tranquil sleepy old village of Mells in Somerset and its links to the Horner family of 'Little Jack Horner' fame. Come find the legend of the horse of Mells and the memories to a time of the Edwardian Golden Age and the impact of the First World War.  Throw in some outstanding artists, sculptors and designers and learn some more stories from this little island of ours!This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websiteMusic: https://www.purple-planet.com

It is quite simply one of the most picturesque parts of Britain. Come with us as we wander the cliffs and trails of the Wye Valley examining the wonder of the River Wye and its links to places and people through history, industry or art. Through Wordsworth's words, this is a reminder of the wonder and timeless nature of this most special parts of our island. This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websiteMusic: https://www.purple-planet.com

Whilst we begin to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe, the end of the Second World War in Europe, Discover Hidden Britain turns its attention to one man, a civilian and an aristocrat, who lived a life all young people dream. Of adventure on the high seas, on cattle stations in the Outback of Australia and of contributing to the war effort at home and abroad. Jack Howard or shall we just call you the Earl of Suffolk? A fascinating and compelling study of a man who would lose his life in the war effort in 1941, who served his country and made a difference.Take a trip to the church at Charlton Park in Wiltshire to honour the memory of this most amazing of men.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websiteMusic: https://www.purple-planet.com

You simply wouldn't know about Leighterton unless you knew... In a sleepy Gloucestershire Cotwolds village lies a lesser known history. An intrinsic link between this village and its adjacent village of Lasborough and Australia. For once, many moons ago, the first Australian flyboys 'the Flying Kangaroos' ruled the skies training for the First World War and playing their part in the global effort.Discover the hidden remembrance of these Aussie boys by their English neighbours and why they continue to be respected and honoured all those years on.This is British history, culture, local legend and experience all rolled into one. Discover Hidden Britain - Tales From Our Island.For more information, head over to our websiteMusic: https://www.purple-planet.com