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Intensive farming has all but destroyed England's ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there's money in protecting nature By Patrick Barkham. Read by Dermot Daly. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
Peter Gibbs and the Gardeners' Question Time panel visit the Lincolnshire village of Pinchbeck, a fenland landscape shaped by waterways and a long history of horticulture.On the panel are plantswoman Christine Walkden and garden designers Matthew Wilson and Bunny Guinness.The team tackles questions on choosing pond plants to support dragonflies, finding colourful plants for exposed, windy gardens, and why some gardeners struggle to grow much-loved astrantias. They also offer practical advice on improving courgette crops, planting around hydrangeas, and dealing with troublesome vine weevil.Water is a recurring theme throughout the programme. Bethan Collerton visits Winterbourne House and Garden to meet plant scientist Professor Jeremy Pritchard and uncover the remarkable ways plants depend on water, from photosynthesis and cooling to the internal hydraulic systems that keep them upright and growing.Back in Pinchbeck, the panel turns to a question many gardeners face during a heatwave - how often should we water our gardens? Christine shares her advice on watering deeply and effectively to help plants withstand dry conditions.Producer: Rahnee Prescod Assistant Producer: William NortonA Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4* If listening on BBC Sounds and you wish to view the plant list, please go to the Gardeners' Question Time website and open this week's episode page.Tickets are available for the BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time Summer Party 2026 held at RHS Garden Wisley on Saturday 5th September. Information and ticket details can be accessed via: https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/whats-on/gardeners-question-time-summer-garden-party
Leyla Kazim revisits some of The Food Programme's most memorable stories to ask: what happened next? From 500kg of eels stranded in a holding tank in Gloucestershire and English olive oil being pressed in Lincolnshire, to the future of halloumi in Cyprus following an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease, and the impact of global politics on vegetables grown in Africa for UK consumers. Leyla returns to the people behind these stories to hear what happened after the programmes were broadcast. Listen to the original programmes: English Olive Oil https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f00zWhy Is Africa Feeding Us? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m1mzHalloumi and hellim: The story of an island and its cheese https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jsc7Eels and Elvers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lfhdConsider the Eel: Part 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t2khProduced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan
"Why do that to such a gentle man? If they had wanted his money, he would have given it to them."On the evening of 21 October 2009, 50-year-old Alan Wood dropped by his local pub, the Willoughby Arms, in the nearby town of Little Bytham. He had a pint and a snack while he read the newspaper, and then headed home to his bungalow in nearby Lound at approximately 6:30 PM. It was a typical night for him and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.For the next three days, no one heard from him. He didn't show up for his scheduled shifts at a Sainsbury's supermarket. When called, he didn't answer. It wasn't until that weekend - the 24th of October - that a friend and colleague from Sainsbury's went to go check on Alan. When they arrived, they found both the front and back doors of Alan's home were wide open...If you have any information about this story that you'd like to share, please contact:Lincolnshire Police: 101Crimestoppers UK: +0800555111Check out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.
Hello Witches The Buck Moon rises at the height of summer when the forests and fields are alive with abundance and the stag carries his newly grown antlers. In this month's Full Moon episode we are exploring the deeper symbolism of the Buck Moon and what this powerful lunar phase invites us to reflect upon. Together we will journey through its folklore, mythology and spiritual meaning discovering why the stag has become such a powerful symbol of renewal, resilience and personal sovereignty. We will also explore the deities and spirits traditionally connected to this moon including Cernunnos, Herne the Hunter, Pan, Artemis, Diana and the mythical Norse stag Eikthyrnir whose antlers were said to nourish the rivers of the world. We will touch upon the earth spirits and fae associated with this season and consider how the natural world mirrors our own inner cycles of growth. I hope this episode encourages you to honour how far you have already come, celebrate your own becoming and remember that just like the stag, your greatest strength often grows quietly before the world ever sees it. Rituals referenced can be found here - https://www.themoonschool.org/full-moon/5-full-buck-moon-rituals-july/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic Tarot card reference - https://soulsisterstarot.com/if-the-buck-moon-were-a-tarot-card-king-of-wands-meaning Deer Symbolism - https://soulsisterstarot.com/buck-moon-symbols-and-omens?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic Crowned by Sunlight - Find my Lammas zine and witch box here - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4323670327/crowned-by-sunlight-a-lammas-witch-box https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4323665554/crowned-by-sunlight-a-lammas-grimoire The Coven - Join me in Lincolnshire from this autumn for monthly in person gatherings - for witches, seekers and lovers of folklore and magick - lessons, folklore, meditation & community - more details here and to follow - https://www.patreon.com/TheHedgeandHollow/posts/coven-autumn-164633973?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Lammas Gathering - Thursday 30th July from 7pm via Zoom For this circle we gather to honour the first harvest and reflect upon one of nature's greatest teachings - “The Earth asks, what are you willing to sacrifice for what must live?” When we hear the word sacrifice we often think of loss, but nature tells a different story. The wheat cannot become bread while it remains standing in the field, the fruit must be picked before it begins to nourish. Every harvest asks us to release one form so that another may emerge. Lammas reminds us that growth is not only about planting new seeds but is also about recognising what has fulfilled its purpose and having the courage to let it go. Together we will explore what we have cultivated over the past year, celebrate the blessings already ripening in our lives and gently ask ourselves what we are ready to release so that something even more meaningful can flourish. As the Wheel of the Year begins its slow turn towards autumn, Lammas invites us to pause before the rush of the coming seasons. It asks us to acknowledge how far we have come, gather the wisdom we have earned and consciously choose what we wish to carry forward. Sign up through The Witches who run with the Wolves tier in The Hedge & Hollow - Patreon - https://patreon.com/TheHedgeandHollow?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Our theme in The Hedge & Hollow for July is The Storyteller. This month we step beyond the pages of the storybook and into the enchanted forest itself. Together we will explore how folklore has shaped our understanding of the world for centuries, uncover the archetypes that continue to guide us today and discover that the stories we return to are often mirrors reflecting our own journeys of becoming. Whether you have always loved fairy tales or have never looked beyond them as childhood stories I hope you will discover that behind every enchanted forest, witch's cottage and magical transformation lies timeless wisdom that still speaks to us today. We will explore - The stories we inherit and the stories we choose to live by Discover how the narratives we tell ourselves quietly shape our lives and why changing your story may be the first step towards changing your future. The archetypes that live within us Meet the Wild Woman, the Witch, the Wise Woman, the Maiden, the Crone and the Fairy Godmother exploring how these timeless figures continue to guide us through different seasons of our lives. Folklore as a map for transformation We will uncover why fairy tales were never simply entertainment but symbolic maps leading us through initiation, grief, courage, love, shadow and rebirth. The hidden language of symbols Why do forests, wolves, mirrors, apples, keys and rivers appear again and again in folklore? Together we will look at the symbolic language that has woven through myths and fairy tales for centuries. A deep dive into a beloved fairy tale Together we will journey into one traditional fairy tale uncovering its forgotten folklore, symbolism, magickal correspondences and the wisdom hidden between its pages. A guided journey to Baba Yaga's hut Deep within the forest you will meet the ancient witch herself, who will reveal the story that is ending, the story waiting to be written and the archetype currently walking beside you. The Storyteller's Grimoire Beautifully designed printable grimoire pages filled with journal prompts, symbolic correspondences, reflective exercises and invitations to begin discovering your own personal myth. 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In this episode, Brian welcomes Steve from the UK to share the unsettling roadside encounter he experienced near Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire, in July 1994.While driving home after a night of DJ work, Steve watched a heavily built, hair-covered creature—standing roughly six and a half feet tall—cross directly in front of his car before disappearing into the roadside brush.The creature moved with remarkable speed and an unusually smooth, fluid gait. As it passed through the headlights, Steve noticed straw or dried grass tangled in its matted hair and caught a brief profile of a pale gray or white face with an almost glossy appearance. Moments later, he heard three strange sounds from the darkness that reminded him of a dog making a reverse-sneezing noise.Fearing ridicule, Steve kept the encounter private for 28 years.He eventually began speaking about it after discovering similar reports from the surrounding area, along with stories of missing livestock and old mining tunnels beneath the local countryside.Steve also discusses several other unexplained experiences from his life, including an apparent childhood premonition of his grandmother's death, a cigar-shaped UFO he witnessed from an airplane in 1999, and disturbing activity inside a former home.Although he remains open-minded about the paranormal, Steve believes the creature he encountered was a living, flesh-and-blood animal.Steve also shares details about Haunted Waves, the paranormal radio show he co-hosts with Claire on Humber Wave Radio.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We'd love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.
In this episode we discover the stories of the boys, and a woman, from a small Lincolnshire village who died in the Great War. We read an emotional final letter to his wife from an Officer who predicted his own death on the following day, and how a man shot himself in the chin soon after arriving on the Western Front, survived but then died years later. What is his story? And the nurse who worked in hospitals in France but is now buried in the local churchyard. How did the War claim Martha's life and what is her legacy? We also look at two descriptions of the battlefields during the 1920's and 1930's. Why did the writer describe the soldiers who stayed behind as “The Living Ghosts?
The Chicago Bears announced Wednesday that it will hold a training camp walkthrough at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire. The walkthrough will take place on the school's campus on Aug. 10.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shaw-local-s-bears-insider-podcast--3098936/support.
The government published its 10-Year Health Plan in July 2025, after a year in development. The plan sets out a vision to transform the NHS centred around three shifts: hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention. A year later, how are the government's reform ambitions being implemented? With the NHS under considerable pressure, what progress are patients seeing on the ground? And what needs to happen now to accelerate delivery? To discuss, our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon is joined by: Birju Bartoli, Chief Executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Paul Dinkin, Director General for Strategy and Healthcare Policy, NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care. Amanda Sullivan, Chief Executive, NHS Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICBs. The panel discussion The 10-Year Health Plan: can reform ambitions meet delivery reality? was recorded on 11 June 2026 at NHS ConfedExpo and is reproduced here in edited form with permission.Show notesHealth Foundation (2025). Dazed and confused? Policy ideas behind the 10-Year Health Plan. Health Foundation (2026). Labour 2 years in: progress so far and prospects for health and care reform. . Health Foundation (2026). Testing and spreading AI in health care: the case for rapid revolution.King's Fund (2025). 1 year on, is the NHS 10-Year Health Plan being delivered?BMJ (2026). England's 10-Year Health Plan: aligning hope with economic reality.
From Fiddler on the Roof to A Little Night Music at The Marriott Lincolnshire and the journey from the West End to Broadway to Lincolnshire. Alexandra Silber talks to Steve Dale about Stephen Sondheim, her current production, and performing for Chicagoans.
Jalen Brunson joins Cam Smith and K.C. Johnson to reflect on his journey from being named Illinois Mr. Basketball at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, to growing up around the NBA and the Chicago Bulls during his father Rick Brunson's playing and coaching career. He looks back on his championship run at Villanova Wildcats men's basketball, being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks, and eventually helping lead the New York Knicks to an NBA championship. Brunson also shares stories about playing alongside Derrick Rose, his early years in Dallas, the passion of Knicks fans, his foundation, and life after winning it all. (Recorded on June 30, 2026)
Welcome to Inside the Pod, the PGRO podcast. In this episode of the podcast, host Ben Pike attends the PGRO's annual Pulse Crop Open Day in Lincolnshire, where he takes a look at the various trials that were on show.Ben speaks to Dr Becky Howard about PGRO's work with the ANSWERs project, as well as the NCS Project which is coming into its final year. He also catches up with Alek Ligeza to talk about PGRO's work with herbicides, plus he speaks to Will Evans about his work with lentils and chickpeas.To find out more about PGRO's trial work and what was on show at this year's open day, head to pgro.org for more information.
Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.Ed Needham is the Editor and Publisher of Strong Words Magazine. He joins us every month with some new book reviews, which this month includes Brendan Cooper's The Ball of the CenturyEmer McLysaght & Sarah Breen are co-authors of the Aisling series. 'Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling' was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland, and it s sequel 'The Importance of Being Aisling', won the award for best popular fiction book at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. Combined, all five books in the series have sold more than 400,000 copies to date. Their latest novel 'Our Deadly Summer' is a hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men.Danny Singer spent his early career as a Military Intelligence Officer, gaining first-hand insight into the inner workings of the security services. 'Nothing Left to Lose' is about Flight MH066, when it mysteriously vanished an hour after leaving Kuala Lumper. It's a gripping, thought-provoking story of survival, identity and the price of freedom....P M Emerson is an English print journalist who spent over four decades working for publications, news outlets ande medical bodies nationwide. Her novel 'Suppression' features an unlikely partnership between a monk and a prostitute, who are at the centre of a Lincolnshire town's rebellion. It's set in 1536 when England is in turmoil. Seth Panitch is a playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. He's also a professor of theatre and heads the MFA Acting program at the University of Alabama. His debut novel 'Antique' is a touching story about the value people place on the objects in their lives and on themselves. It's a tale of second-chances, family, and the overarching question we find ourselves asking: after everything is said and done, what am I worth in the end? Amanda James has written since she was a child. Her dream of becoming a published writer came true in 2010 when she had her first short story published. Her novel 'The Secret Library' is filled with warmth, whispers of magic, and the irreplaceable comfort of books. It's for anyone who knows how one story can change anything.The TRE Book Show airs every Friday between 14.00-16.00CET (repeated Sunday from 13.00CET)
As a manufacturer of both solid and liquid plant nutrition, Yara is dedicated to advancing precision farming. In this podcast episode, Roger Bacon, Yara's Farm Account Manager for Lincolnshire, dives into the key advantages of liquid fertilisers with Ken Rundle. He discusses their reliability during dry springs, ease of application, reduced labor demands, and improved accuracy.Roger also shares storage recommendations and explains how Yara supports farmers transitioning to liquid systems. He highlights our comprehensive range of NPKs, Straight Nitrogen, and Nitrogen Sulphur products, alongside precision tools like the N-Sensor for real-time crop monitoring and the new YaraPlus app for creating variable-rate application maps. The episode wraps up with a summary of how liquid fertilizer maximizes overall farm efficiency.Ready to unlock the full potential of your fields? Head over to the YaraPlus website today to transform your crop nutrition strategy.UK - https://uk.yaraplus.com/Ire - https://ie.yaraplus.com/
Dave B and Dave D are waiting for your messages!Summer blazes on and so does the Daftaboutcraft podcast with our latest episode. If you want a tale or two with your beer then Tommy Barnes is your man. The brains behind Braslou Biere and also the author of the Braslou Biere Chronicles, Tommy joins us to talk about his latest book and his beers in a very funny and interesting chat. Northern Monk don't feature too often on the podcast these days but one of their latest Patron Project beers, a collab with Moonwake Beer Co, caught the eye. So is it hype, or is it tripe? We also have Brew To Me offerings from Cornwall's Mine Brewing Company and Munyard Brewery from Lincolnshire, plus another rant from Dave D and plenty more besides!We're delighted to be backed by Craft Brew Festival, curators of a unique beer festival tour across Britain.
Guy Martin is a television presenter, mechanic and former motorcycle racer. During his career he achieved 17 podium finishes at the Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Races – one of the most prestigious and dangerous motorcycling events in the world. His television programmes often focus on his daredevil nature and combine two of his greatest loves - engineering and history.Guy was brought up in the village of Kirmington in North Lincolnshire. When he was five his father, who raced bikes himself, bought him his first motorcycle which he promptly crashed into the rose garden. His father is a mechanic and Guy used to sit and watch him at work in the shed from a young age and at 12 he began working for him at weekends and during school holidays.Guy's first race meeting was at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire when he was 19. Less than a minute into the race he crashed. He was not badly injured but the bike was destroyed in the process. In 2004 he made his debut at the biggest road race of them all – the Isle of Man TT, finishing seventh in the Senior race and winning the Newcomers Trophy. Guy retired from racing in 2015 after a very bad crash at the Ulster Grand Prix. After that he turned to his bicycle and has taken part in several endurance cycling events, including the Tour Divide, to test his resolve and stamina and fill the adrenaline gap.Guy lives in Lincolnshire with his wife Sharon, their daughter Dottie and three dogs. DISC ONE: Bam Ba Lam (Here Comes Daddy) - Alabama 3 DISC TWO: Testify - Rage Against the Machine DISC THREE: Blinded by the Light - The Streets DISC FOUR: Getaway - The Music DISC FIVE: Me and my Monkey - Robbie Williams DISC SIX: Hurt – Johnny Cash DISC SEVEN: The Day is My Enemy - The Prodigy DISC EIGHT: With or Without You - U2 BOOK CHOICE: Stealing Speed by Mat Oxley LUXURY ITEM: The back catalogue of Race Engine Technology magazine CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: With or Without You - U2 Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley
For the last three years, DragonHeart Homes, a CIOB company in Peterborough that makes modular units for public-sector housing, has employed prisoners from HMP North Sea Camp, a Category-D open men's prison outside Boston in Lincolnshire. So far, 41 inmates have come to work at DragonHeart. They get training and NVQs in construction skills, with CSCS cards. It sets them up with cash in the bank and, upon their release, skills and experience the construction industry is crying out for. DragonHeart is the largest employer in a government scheme called Prisoners Building Homes, which unlocks public land for modular housing developments and helps prisoners get work with the builders. Some of the inmates have stayed with DragonHeart after their release, while others have gone to work at other companies in the scheme. Six months after their release, most are in full employment and almost none have re-offended. For this podcast, Global Construction Review editor Rod Sweet went to Peterborough to sit down with two men who've come through the DragonHeart programme. One came back to work with the company after his release. Now 57, he's been in prison for most of his adult life. The other, still in prison, has accepted a permanent job offer from the company after his release in six weeks. In candid conversations, both men say the experience has changed their lives. They're proud of their new skills, proud to be looking after themselves and their families, and they love their jobs. The man driving the outreach is DragonHeart director Jason Bassett MCIOB. He says the prisoners are reliable, productive workers who are eager to learn. He explains how the scheme works. We also hear from Cheshire Police & Crime Commissioner Dan Price, who is on a mission to bring the Prisoners Building Homes scheme to Cheshire.
**** Notice - This episode contains descriptions of animal related deaths - Listener discretion is advised! **** The Inspectre team conclude their terrifying investiagtion of the formidable 'Old King's Head' in Kirton, Lincolnshire. We pick the up the story with our eyewitness Bob, as he recalls a disturbing chain of events that would leave a lasting impact on himelf and his family all these years later! Joining Tom and providing their opinions and expertise are Spiritual Expert Jackie Dennison (TV's 'Rescue Mediums'), Chief Sceptic Tom Paech and Resident Historian Eli Lycett The Local Mythstorian. www.inspectreparanormal.com Follow us on Facebook and Instagram —————————————— Credits Written, presented, edited and produced by Tom Barrow Spiritualist panellist- Jackie Dennison https://www.jackiedennison.com http://www.feathersmediums.co.uk Sceptic panellist- Tom Paech Historical research conducted and presented by Eli Lycett https://thelocalmythstorian.com "Inspectre Theme" - written and produced by Matt Davies —————————————— Storyblocks: "Connecting shadows" - Michael Vignola- "Crawler" "Infinity Mirror" - Jon Presstone "Autonomous light" - Jason Wayne Brown "Indecisions" - Boris Skalsky "Planet of Cornices" - Jason Wayne Brown "Lightness" - Dawn Kevin Macleod "Home isn't a place" "Watching" - Michael Vignola "Fear within" - Yagull Music "The wrong Idea"- Michael Vignola "Don't Lie" "You saved me" - Michael Vignola ——————————————- Upbeat: "Floating in empty space" - Braden Deal ——————————————- Sound effects: 320416__Yadronoff__Shivering chandeiler ——————————————- #Paranormal #Ghosts #Ghost #Haunted #Scary #Spirits #Spooky Inspectre Paranormal is an independent podcast made by CW9 Productions. ©️CW9 Productions 2026
In this episode of Inside the Pod, host Ben Pike speaks to Dr Chris Judge from the PGRO's Vining Pea Open Day in Nocton, Lincolnshire, where PGRO's vining pea trials were on show for growers to see, which was held on Monday 15th June.To find out more about PGRO's vining pea trial work, head to pgro.org
The Inspectre team travel across to the small historic market town of Kirton and take on a case at a formidable location: 'The Old King's Head'. Join us as we revisit the chilling accounts of eyewitness Bob and his family during their time living in this 400-year-old former coaching inn. From unsettling encounters to long-buried secrets, mystery and fear await in the heart of rural Lincolnshire. Joining Tom and providing their opinions and expertise are Spiritual Expert Jackie Dennison (TV's 'Rescue Mediums'), Chief Sceptic Tom Paech and Resident Historian Eli Lycett The Local Mythstorian. www.inspectreparanormal.com Follow us on Facebook and Instagram —————————————— *** Old King's Head - Ghost Photo *** Take a look at Bob's Ghost photo. What do you see? Is this paranormal? - Let me know your thoughts on Facebook or Instagram. —————————————— Credits Written, presented, edited and produced by Tom Barrow Spiritualist panellist- Jackie Dennison https://www.jackiedennison.com http://www.feathersmediums.co.uk Sceptic panellist- Tom Paech Historical research conducted and presented by Eli Lycett https://thelocalmythstorian.com "Inspectre Theme" - written and produced by Matt Davies —————————————— Storyblocks: "Connecting shadows" - Michael Vignola- "Crawler" "Autonomous light" - Jason Wayne Brown "Indecisions" - Boris Skalsky "Planet of Cornices" - Jason Wayne Brown "Lightness" - Dawn Kevin Macleod "Home isn't a place" ——————————————- Upbeat: "Floating in empty space" - Braden Deal ——————————————- Sound effects: 320416__Yadronoff__Shivering chandeiler ——————————————- #Paranormal #Ghosts #Ghost #Haunted #Scary #Spirits #Spooky Inspectre Paranormal is an independent podcast made by CW9 Productions. ©️CW9 Productions 2026
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Everything we think we know about women and power in the medieval world is missing a few key details. Like the fact that there were exactly two female sheriffs in medieval England, and that their lives were directly tangled together in the most dramatic way possible. Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle through multiple sieges, was appointed Sheriff of Lincolnshire by King John in one of his final acts, and helped turn the tide of a French invasion in 1217, all while in her sixties. A French chronicler called her "a very cunning, bad-hearted and vigorous old woman." She won anyway. Ela of Salisbury inherited one of the greatest titles in England at age nine, used a clause from Magna Carta to refuse remarriage, paid the king to serve as Sheriff of Wiltshire, showed up at the exchequer in person to do the job, and eventually founded Lacock Abbey before becoming its Abbess. Oh, and their husbands knew each other. Ela's husband is literally the man who tried to steal Nicholaa's castle. The history of women doing so-called men's work is not a modern story. It's just a story we haven't been told loudly enough. Katherine Fenkyll episode I linked to at the end: https://youtu.be/QggqaYpPbe4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today Ben is in the Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire borderlands meeting Tom Hawthorne who is farm manager for Flawborough Farms, farming 3200 hectares of cereals, forage maize and whole crop silage both for the home farm and contracting for 13 other landowners. The Hawthorne family have been farming at Flawborough since 1956 when Tom's grandfather Charles inherited the farm from his godfather. With heavy land winter crops are the mainstay for the farm including Oilseed rape, Wheat, and Beans. Minimal cultivations have been used since the 1960s. Over time, the business has gradually increased its arable area through contracting.
You've got £500, three days, and a set of clubs in the boot. Where are you heading? This week, Tom Irwin and Steve Carroll plan the ultimate budget golf trip. Steve reveals an eye-opening adventure in Northumberland, complete with green fees that seem too good to be true, while Tom makes the case for his beloved Lincolnshire and its collection of top-class courses. If you're looking for maximum golf without emptying your wallet, this episode is packed with ideas. And we want to hear from you: what's the best-value golf trip you've ever taken? Website: https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/ X: https://x.com/NCG_com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NationalClubGolfer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nationalclubgolfer/?hl=en
Today on Meet the Farmers host Ben Eagle is joined by Michael Sly who heads up the Park Farm team which farms 2000 hectares in north Cambridgeshire and south Lincolnshire. They grow wheat, peas, sugar and mustard. Michael was awarded an MBE in 2022. Michael has served as the chairman of English Mustard Growers and the NFU Sugar board. Michael has also welcomed tens of thousands of people through the farm gates since he started doing Open Farm Sunday in 2006.
It's been unseasonably hot over the last few days across much of the UK. Extreme heat means extra concerns for livestock farmers. The Irish government has issued guidance advising farmers not to transport animals in the hottest part of the day, and vets and farmers will be looking out for symptoms of heat stress in all livestock. We visit a dairy farmer in Cumbria to find out how his herd is faring.Farmers in the east of England say they'll have to start reviewing the way they plant crops after one of their driest Aprils on record. Crops already planted are struggling and this current hot spell is making matters worse. We visit an arable farmer in Lincolnshire whose crops are suffering because of the weather.All week we are looking at local food systems - alternatives to big supply chains and supermarkets. Lauriston agro-ecology farm, just north of Edinburgh, covers a hundred acres and is run by a workers' cooperative. It describes itself as an urban farm growing food for people and wildlife and claims to be Scotland's largest community supported agricultural enterprise. Producer: Rebecca Rooney Presenter: Caz Graham
Why do performers experience stage fright, even when they love being on stage? In this episode, voice coach and breathwork teacher Laura Dumbleton joins Alexa to unpack performance anxiety, fight-or-flight responses, and practical tools to manage nerves before, during and after singing or public speaking. Expect honest stories, functional techniques, confidence strategies, and advice for singers, performers and vocal coaches navigating stage fright. WHAT'S IN THIS PODCAST? 2:39 What is stage fright? 4:17 Why might a singer experience stage fright? 5:55 Why has performing not evolved to become less stress-provoking? 9:40 Symptoms of stage fright to look out for 12:59 Is it true that ‘some nerves can be helpful?' 15:25 The Boiling Pot Analogy 19:20 Stage fright myth busting 21:39 Strategies for stage fright About the presenter HERE RELEVANT MENTIONS & LINKS Singing Teachers Talk - Ep.155 Part One: Building Neurodiversity-Inclusive Voice Studios Singing Teachers Talk - Ep.156 Part Two: Building Neurodiversity-Inclusive Voice Studios Dave Cottrell: @mindsetbydave Stress Less: Breath More - Simple Breathing Exercises for Stress Relief Sarah Joyce: @sarahjoycesings Jessie J - Watch Me Work Through a Panic on Stage Singing Teachers Talk - Ep.80 Understanding Music Performance Anxiety ABOUT THE GUEST Laura Dumbleton is a Stage Fright Coach, Voice Coach and Breathwork Teacher with over fourteen years of experience working with singers and voice teachers. She specialises in why technically prepared singers still struggle under pressure, and what can be done about it. She is passionate about getting rid of “just practice more!” as a solution and instead replacing it with actual tools to address the underlying problem. Laura works from her studio in Lincolnshire and online with clients worldwide, offering 1:1 coaching, group workshops, and courses covering musical theatre voice, stage fright, and performance confidence. Her Stage Fright workshops bring together the science of performance anxiety, vocal technique, and nervous system regulation, giving singers and teachers practical tools for building genuine confidence that holds up under pressure. Breathwork runs through everything she does, from coherence breathing to conscious connected breathwork, whether as a standalone session or woven into performance coaching. She holds a Masters of Research from the University of Edinburgh specialising in performance anxiety in singers, alongside being an IVA Advanced Instructor and qualified Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher with Breathing Space. Website Instagram
n this episode of She Dares Wins, Michelle is joined by sisters Mary and Teddy – two women who've carved wildly different but equally daring paths from the same family roots.Mary is a fibrous plasterer working in heritage buildings and a trailblazer in a centuries‑old, male‑dominated trade. Teddy is a dental therapist who walked away from a high‑flying corporate role to work in rural Nicaragua, where she eventually met her husband.Together they talk about risk, resilience, sisterhood, and what it really looks like to choose the daring route when nothing is guaranteed.Key Takeaways & Timestamps[00:02:47] Daring stories: quitting jobs & choosing riskTeddy shares how she quit a prestigious international dental job and followed her heart to Nicaragua.Mary explains her mantra: “take the risk or lose the chance” and why she always chooses the dare over the safe option.[00:03:28] Motorway breakdown & battery change – live ‘she dares, she wins'The chaotic journey to the studio: Teddy's car breaking down on the motorway.Mary diagnosing the battery, buying tools, negotiating with highway maintenance and changing the battery at the roadside in minutes.[00:08:02] 500 toothbrushes & an NGO in NicaraguaTeddy's decision to travel with a suitcase of toothbrushes to support an NGO dental project.Staying six months instead of three weeks, travelling the country, and eventually deciding to quit her corporate role.How this led to meeting her husband and redefining success.[00:14:06] Mary's path in a family trade – from “embarrassed” to expertGrowing up around the family fibrous plastering business and returning after having her daughter.Being a woman in a male‑dominated heritage trade when it “wasn't fashionable.”Deciding not just to be a female plasterer, but to be the best and “better than the boys.”[00:17:16] Resilience, single motherhood & mental strengthMary on being knocked down in work and personal life and still getting up every time.Balancing running the business, raising her daughter alone, doing admin late at night and still choosing this life for the freedom it brings.How challenges that would be “massive” to others now feel manageable.[00:21:16] Representation, role models & social mediaHow Mary's Instagram makes her visible to young girls who now see a woman on the tools as normal.Her daughter questioning words like “firemen” and assuming women run building sites.The importance of seeing someone who looks like you doing the thing you dream of.[00:31:12] What they'd tell their younger selves (and why they wouldn't change the hard bits)Both reflecting on mistakes, especially around relationships and risk.Teddy's intense experience with a brownie in Amsterdam, how it surfaced unresolved trauma, and why she says “go to therapy before you have a brownie (or just don't do them).”The idea that the painful chapters were necessary to become who they are now.[00:39:25] The craft: heritage ceilings, the Guild & teaching the next generationMary explains decorative mouldings and working on stately homes and castles.Her role in the Guild (founded 1509), becoming the youngest and only female journeyman so far, and the rarity of female master plasterers.Running workshops, Airbnb experiences and college sessions – creating safe learning spaces where no question is stupid.[00:49:24] Identity, calling & coming home to yourselfTeddy's current RAF clinic role and living on base in Lincolnshire.The identity crisis of moving to rural Nicaragua: language, culture, lifestyle all changing at once.Realising not every part of her “old self” has to die – some passions and projects are meant to be carried forward into the new life.Join Dare Club Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join us this Sunday for an online service from St Peter & St Paul in Old Bolingbroke in rural Lincolnshire, led by Rev Judith Simons.Last year, the community here won Church of the Year, and the Church and Community Volunteers Award for England - praised as “an outstanding example of what a small, rural church can achieve through energy, imagination, and community spirit.”And we'll learn more about the fascinating heritage of Old Bolingbroke - the birthplace of King Henry IV - and how the local community have come together to maintain the historic sites.“It's a model for us all, I think” said Dr David Stocker, Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.As we reach the seventh Sunday of Easter, in this service, we reflect on the moments after the Last Supper, as Jesus prepares to say goodbye to the disciples, knowing that he is about to give his life for our sins.“All Jesus wants is for us to know him and to know God.”Whether you're exploring faith, returning to church, or looking for spiritual encouragement, you are warmly invited to worship with our growing online community across England and beyond.
Fuel shortages triggered by the Iran conflict could leave crops rotting in fields this harvest unless food production is prioritised. We hear from CAAV adviser Jeremy Moody, who warns that red diesel availability is now an immediate concern for arable farmers, with further uncertainty for autumn planting. We also visit Dyson Farming’s new research centre in Lincolnshire, where managing director Daniel Cross explains how the business hopes to transform British agriculture. At the Pig and Poultry Fair, Pig World editor Alistair Driver reports on mixed market sentiment, falling pig prices and concern over Morrisons giving notice to some British pig suppliers. Plus, Hugh Broom rounds up the markets, Louise Impey reflects on glyphosate; and the Princess Royal receives for Farmers Club Cup for her long-standing support for UK agriculture. In this episode:00:00 Fuel shortages threaten harvest14:41 Dyson Farming’s research centre30:05 Weather, silage, maize and glyphosate35:08 Pig and Poultry Fair market mood39:23 Hugh’s market report42:11 Princess Royal receives Farmers Club Cup This week’s guests:Jeremy Moody, Central Association of Agricultural ValuersDaniel Cross, Dyson FarmingAlistair Driver, Pig WorldChris Riddle, The Farmers Club Useful links:House of Commons Efra CommitteeDyson Farming ResearchBritish Pig & Poultry FairFarmers Weekly markets data This episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast is co-hosted by Johann Tasker, Louise Impey and Hugh Broom. Edited and produced by Johann Tasker. Contact or follow Johann: linkedin.com/in/johanntasker/ Contact or follow Louise: linkedin.com/in/louise-impey-95470b20b/ Contact or follow Hugh: linkedin.com/in/hugh-broom-9b11906a/ For Farmers Weekly, visit fwi.co.uk or follow linkedin.com/company/farmers-weekly To contact, sponsor or advertise on the Farmers Weekly Podcast, email podcast@fwi.co.uk. In the UK, you can also text the word FARM followed by your message to 88 44 0. We'd love to hear from you.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dive into one of the most compelling collections of recent UFO encounters reported across Illinois. In this episode of UFO Warning, we examine multiple eyewitness reports submitted to NUFORC involving glowing orbs, cigar-shaped craft, silent chevron objects, hovering rectangles, and mysterious low-flying aerial phenomena seen over Chicago, Bloomington, Lincolnshire, Shelbyville, Lebanon, and Lake Michigan.From airline passengers witnessing strange metallic objects near O'Hare International Airport to former military observers describing silent glowing craft with impossible flight characteristics, these cases raise serious questions about UFO'S in the Midwest.
Episode breakdownPart 1 — Why dewpoint matters more than air temperature, and the math of why a 36°F low with a 39°F dewpoint produces dew, not frost.Part 2 — Wet-bulb temperature as the pro forecaster's tool, and why surfaces can touch the wet-bulb value rather than the air temperature on calm clear nights.Part 3 — The big surprise: why wet soil cools harder than dry soil. All three mechanisms — evaporational cooling, higher emissivity (0.95–0.98 wet vs. 0.88–0.92 dry), and the surface coupling effect that lets wet soil's bulk heat reservoir actually pull cold deeper rather than rebounding at the skin.Part 4 — The river paradox: moisture pump versus drainage trap, and the five factors that determine which wins (wind, water-vs-air temp, valley shape, season, watershed size).Part 5 — Concrete contrast: Des Plaines River at Lincolnshire (narrow, wooded, modest evaporation, drainage wins) vs. Kankakee River at Kankakee (broad floodplain, strong evaporation, no cold sink, moisture wins). Then Antioch and the Chain O'Lakes, with the explanation of why small inland lakes don't protect like Lake Michigan does.Part 6 — Tonight's frost map across the LOT CWA: high-confidence frost in Antioch and Lincolnshire, moderate confidence in rural McHenry/DeKalb/Lee/Iroquois/Newton/Jasper, and confident "no frost" in the urban Chicago neighborhoods, lakefront suburbs, and Kankakee city. With the explicit reassurance that West Rogers Park porch tomatoes are safe.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.
In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas is joined by Magnus Birch Throckmorton, the latest custodian of Coughton Court — a Tudor manor house in Warwickshire that has been home to the Throckmorton family for over 600 years. Coughton Court is one of England's most historically charged houses: its great gatehouse was built during the reign of Henry VIII, its walls conceal a double priest hole from the Reformation, and on the night the Gunpowder Plot collapsed in 1605, it was the very house where the plotters' families waited for news. Magnus walks Jonathan through six centuries of survival, faith, and family — from Sir George Throckmorton's audacious confrontation with Henry VIII over Anne Boleyn's marriage, to the sacking of the house during the English Civil War, to the remarkable women of Coughton who kept it alive through every crisis. Magnus also shares what it's like to raise his young children in this living, breathing house, what he and his wife Imogen have introduced since taking over direct management in March 2026, and why American Anglophiles should make Coughton a priority stop on any Midlands itinerary. Links Coughton Court — coughtoncourt.co.uk Historic Houses Association — historichouses.org Harvington Hall (mentioned for priest holes) — harvingtonhall.com Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire (mentioned) — doddingtonhall.com Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon — shakespeare.org.uk Friends of Anglotopia ⠀ Takeaways The Throckmorton family has lived at Coughton Court since 1409 — predating Columbus's voyage to America — making it one of the longest unbroken family occupancies of any historic house in England. Sir George Throckmorton, who built the great gatehouse around 1530, was audacious enough to confront Henry VIII directly over his marriage to Anne Boleyn — and somehow survived by throwing himself on the king's mercy. Coughton Court has a double priest hole: a decoy chamber above a hidden second chamber, designed so that searchers would find the first and assume it empty, never discovering the one below. The Throckmorton family were connected to — but not directly implicated in — the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The plotters' wives and Father Garnet waited at Coughton for news of whether the plan had succeeded or failed. During the English Civil War, Coughton was sacked and plundered, leaving it in a state of ruin that took generations to rebuild. Among the most remarkable objects in the house are a chemise believed to have been worn by Mary Queen of Scots at her execution in 1587, and a cape attributed to Catherine of Aragon and her ladies-in-waiting. The award-winning gardens were designed from scratch in 1991 by Magnus's mother for his grandmother, including a rose labyrinth deliberately full of dead ends, designed to slow visitors down and make them appreciate the colours and scents. Since taking over direct management from the National Trust in March 2026, Magnus and Imogen have introduced a café using hyper-local producers, a charity bookshop, artist residencies, workshops from willow weaving to botanical pottery, Tai Chi, yoga, a monthly supper club, and a summer programme of outdoor theatre. Coughton is just 20 minutes from Stratford-upon-Avon and easily reachable from the Cotswolds — making it a natural addition to any Shakespeare Country itinerary. The property includes two churches — one Catholic, one Protestant — with Throckmorton ancestors buried in both, a quirk that speaks directly to the family's extraordinary journey through five centuries of English religious history. ⠀ Soundbites "It's incredibly exciting — quite scary that your ancestors are looking down at you judging every step of the way. They've got the lovely portraits as you walk up the stairs, so you can't get away from them." — Magnus on being the latest custodian of Coughton. "It's still a family home. It's not a statue in time. It's still breathing, it's still living, it's still evolving — and it really tells the story of one family who've stayed true to being Catholic the whole way through." — Magnus on what makes Coughton different. "He said it is wrong to have meddled with both mother and sister — to which the king replied, it was never with the mother. So Sir George obviously had a nature of being able to push the boundaries." — Magnus on Sir George Throckmorton's confrontation with Henry VIII. "The Throckmortons were not directly implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. They were one step away. None of the plotters had a Throckmorton name — which is probably the reason we're here today." — Magnus on the family's Gunpowder Plot connection. "We have a chemise believed to have been worn by Mary Queen of Scots at her beheading. There's a Latin inscription saying Mary Queen of Scots at her execution on the 8th of February 1587. She was an incredibly tall lady, so it is a very long chemise." — Magnus on one of the house's most extraordinary objects. "It was a thousand guinea bet — shear two sheep and wear the coat between sunrise and sunset. They shorn the sheep, wove it, dyed it, and it was worn at the feast that evening. The biggest travesty was the two sheep were served at the banquet." — Magnus on the famous Throckmorton Coat wager of 1811. "The ladies are the ones who maintain and keep these houses going. They put their life and soul into it and the character of it. My grandmother was one of the first female QCs in the UK. These women are sometimes forgotten about in the grand stories." — Magnus on the women of Coughton. "We are not necessarily close to anywhere, but we're never that far away. You can get to anywhere within an hour and a half — and we're 20 minutes from the Cotswolds, 20 minutes from Stratford." — Magnus on Coughton's surprisingly central location. "Some people come to the UK expecting these houses to be the new Downton Abbey. There is no grandeur here. This is a living and breathing family house — we'll take you on our story, and you'll get an insight into what it's like living at Coughton." — Magnus on the personal experience he and Imogen offer visitors. "My daughter is very good at watering on a Saturday. Mainly she waters the paths, not the plants — which is probably a thing, otherwise the gardeners would tell us off." — Magnus on raising children at Coughton Court. ⠀ Chapters 00:00 Introduction — Jonathan sets the scene at Coughton Court and introduces Magnus Throckmorton 01:58 A New Chapter Begins — Coughton's March 2026 reopening under Magnus and Imogen's direct management 02:19 600 Years of Continuity — What that extraordinary length of connection to one place feels like from the inside 03:11 Raising Children at Coughton — Hector, Isabella, hide-and-seek, and the priest hole problem 05:01 What Is Coughton Court? — A living Tudor family home, its history and why it matters 07:09 Sir George Throckmorton & Henry VIII — The courtier who dared oppose the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn 09:07 The Reformation and Catholic Persecution — Fines, recusancy, and the double priest hole 11:35 The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 — How Coughton became the waiting room for the plotters' families 14:30 The English Civil War — Sacked and plundered, and the long road to rebuilding 15:32 The Women of Coughton — The overlooked figures who kept the house alive across the centuries 17:00 WWII and the Speaker of the House — Coughton's designation as a wartime safe house 17:38 First Impressions — What an American visitor sees walking through the gates for the first time 18:22 Where Is Coughton Court? — Geography, distances, and how it fits into a Midlands itinerary 19:40 Must-See Highlights — The panelled dining room, Mary Queen of Scots' chemise, Catherine of Aragon's cape, and the Throckmorton Coat 23:47 The Award-Winning Gardens — Designed in 1991, the rose labyrinth, and Imogen's new influence 26:08 Two Churches, One Estate — The Protestant and Catholic churches and the ancestors buried in both 28:01 Taking Over from the National Trust — What it means to personally open the doors again 29:46 New Ventures — The café, bookshop, workshops, artist residencies, supper club and more 31:55 Coughton as a Community Hub — The village fête, dementia awareness days, and the volunteer team 33:19 The Historic Houses Network — What joining has meant for advice, connections, and visibility 34:43 Coughton's USP — One family, one faith, 600 years, and gardens that change with every season 36:31 Why Americans Should Visit — The personal touch, the family access, and the Shakespeare Country connection 40:37 Summer 2026 at Coughton — Roses, herbaceous borders, outdoor theatre, and very good ice cream 41:43 Wrap-Up — Opening hours, website link, and how to find Coughton Court Video Version
Lost Hearts by M R James (1862-1936) Join my patreon: https://patreon.com/barcud There is a house in Lincolnshire where a scholar lives alone with his books and his learning and his carefully recorded dates. He is a kind man, by all appearances — generous to orphaned children, interested in the old religions, methodical in his habits. The kind of man that academics find reliable. M. R. James wrote this story in 1895. His erudition encompassed the respectable and the less so, and he knew the darker currents of the archive as well as any man alive. Something — or someone — has been waiting in that house. Waiting, with considerable patience, for the third. "Lost Hearts" was first published in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1895, and collected in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, published by Edward Arnold in 1904. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval manuscript scholar, Provost of King's College Cambridge and later of Eton, and the most influential writer of English ghost stories of the twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
My guest on The British Food History Podcast today is Mark Dawson, a food historian specialising in the food and social history of the early modern period, but also on the regional food of the Midlands. Today we are talking about the traditional food and drink of his home county of Derbyshire.You may remember he was on last season talking about Derbyshire Oatcakes, well, since then he has written a fantastic book called Lumpy Tums: Derbyshire's Food & Drink published by Amberley and out in the wild from the 15th April 2026.We talk about oat-based foods like thar cakes, which were traditionally eaten on All Souls Day, thin pudding and savoury pudding, the origins of the Bakewell pudding and Derbyshire's very high proportion of drinking establishments per head, amongst many other things.Those listening to the secret podcast get more than a quarter of an hour of bonus material where we talk about Derbyshire cheeses, the return of small-scale breweries to the county, wakes cakes and Ashbourne gingerbread.Lumpy Tums: Derbyshire's Food & Drink by Mark Dawson and published by AmberleyMark's websiteMark's Speakernet profileFollow Mark on Instagram @lumpytumsSeason 10 of the podcast is sponsored by Netherton Foundry, who make high-quality kitchen and outdoor cookware. Netherton Foundry ships to several countries outside of the UK, including the USA and Canada. Visit www.netherton-foundry.co.uk to find out more about their wonderful products – approved not just by me but by folk such as Tom Parker-Bowles, Diana Henry and Nigella Lawson.If you can, support the podcast and blogs by becoming a £3 monthly subscriber, and unlock lots of premium content, including bonus blog posts and recipes, access to the easter eggs and the secret podcast, or treat me to a one-off virtual pint or coffee: click here.This episode was mixed and engineered by Thomas Ntinas of the Delicious Legacy podcast.Things mentioned in today's episodeCounty Recipes of Old England by Helen Edden (2008)Good Things in England by Florence White (1932)Tindall's of Tideswell – purveyors of Thar CakesThe English Alehouse by Peter Clarke (1983)Bakewell Pudding ShopKnead to Know: A History of Baking by Neil Buttery (2024)The Rutland ArmsIvan Day's blog post about the Bakewell puddingVegetable Cookery by Martha Brotherton (1833): the page with the potato Bakewell pudding!Anne Lister of Shibden HallBetty's Vintage Tea RoomsPrevious pertinent blog postsTo Make a Bakewell PuddingTo Make a Bakewell TartYorkshire ParkinDock Pudding#321 Sweetmeat CakePrevious pertinent podcast episodesDerbyshire Oatcakes with Mark DawsonTraditional Food of Lincolnshire with Rachel GreenGingerbread with Sam BiltonOrmskirk Gingerbread with Anouska LewisNeil's blogs and YouTube channel:‘British Food: a History'The British Food History Channel‘Neil Cooks Grigson'Neil's books:Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential HousekeeperA Dark History of SugarKnead to Know: a History of BakingThe Philosophy of PuddingsDon't forget, there will be postbag episodes in the future, so if you have any questions or queries about today's episode, or indeed any episode, or have a question about the history of British food please email me at neil@britishfoodhistory.com, or on twitter and BlueSky @neilbuttery, or Instagram and Threads dr_neil_buttery. My DMs are open.You can also join the British Food: a History Facebook discussion page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/britishfoodhistoryMentioned in this episode:A is for Apple Season C has begun!Join Neil Buttery, Sam Bilton and Alessandra Pino for their journey through the letter C on 'A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink'. Available wherever you get your podcasts.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
In this gripping continuation of our Murders That Haunt series, Yvette Fielding returns to rural England to uncover a case where betrayal was served at the dinner table.In May 1934, in the quiet Lincolnshire village of Kirkby-on-Bain, Arthur Major sat down to eat a simple meal of corned beef prepared by his wife. Within hours, he was dead: poisoned with strychnine.His killer, Ethel Major, would go on to become the only woman ever executed at HM Prison Hull.But did the story end at the gallows?We explore the chilling reports that have surfaced in the decades since: from the condemned corridor of Hull Prison, where footsteps are still said to echo, to the Major family home where an ordinary kitchen carries an uneasy atmosphere, and finally to the quiet grounds of St Mary's Church, where some claim a solitary figure walks near the boundary wall after dusk.Through witness accounts, folklore, and paranormal theory, we investigate whether something of that final betrayal still lingers across these locations, not as a dramatic haunting, but as something far quieter… and perhaps more unsettling.This is the story of suspicion, poison, and a legacy that may never have truly settled.This is Murders That Haunt: The Corned Beef Killer.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trains. A milking of puns. Record juniors and Norway's sporting culture. parkrun UK have gone to Specsavers. Nicola takes Poppy to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School parkrun (aka QEGS) in Lincolnshire to finish her alphabet and Danny crops up at Frank's Farm parkrun in Cambridgeshire.
In 1599, a young French woman's demonic possession became history's first scientifically debunked exorcism — but the truth behind her supernatural feats might be even stranger than fiction.*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*Take the Weird Darkness Survey: https://weirddarkness.com/surveyIN THIS EPISODE: Young Marthe was a troubled young girl already, but her life took a dark, evil turn when she became possessed by a demon. But the strangest part of her story isn't the possession – but the exorcism. (The Exorcism of Martha Brossier) *** Barbara Forrest and Mary Ashford lived in different centuries, but they died in chillingly similar ways. (The Erdington Murders) *** At more than 1,000 miles from civilization in all directions, Point Nemo is unlike any other place in the world – and in very strange ways. (Eerie Facts About Point Nemo) *** Is it possible to anger a ghost to the point they'll follow you home to taunt you? (The Green Man) *** In 1921, the term “one-way ride” came into existence – after a man named Stevie was “disappeared” thanks to the Chicago Mob. (The One Way Ride) *** Was the woman found dead in a wych elm tree in wartime England a Nazi spy? (The Hagley Woods Mystery) *** The crew of 309 aboard the USS Cyclops disappeared without a trace – and now, 100 years later, we're still left with more questions than answers. (The Bermuda Triangle Vanishing of the USS Cyclops) *** Mickey was arrested and charged with slicing the throat of one of his best friends, and he had good reason. After all, his friend owed him thirty-five dollars. (The Confessions of Mickey Sliney) *** A grandfather tells his grandson about the time he lived in a haunted house. (A Strange Haunted Incident in Lincolnshire) *** Wander around one particular U.S. park and you may come across a soldier who lost his head to a cannonball. (The Legend Of Green Eyes) *** Strange dreams happen to us all – but what does it mean if you dream about spiders? (8-Legged Nightmares) *** Police respond to a 9-1-1 call, but they arrive a few years too late. (Ghost 911 Call) *** Vegetable Men, Space Fairies… how bizarre can alien encounters get? (Truly Bizarre Alien Encounters)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:27.722 = Show Open00:04:16.836 = The Exorcism of Marthe Brossier00:12:27.520 = The Hagley Woods Mystery ***00:27:05.667 = The Erdington Murders00:31:12.846 = The “One Way Ride”00:39:12.063 = The Green Man ***00:41:42.547 = Eerie Facts About Point Nemo00:46:53.135 = Vegetable Men, Space Fairies, and Other Bizarre Aliens01:09:38.340 = The Confessions of Mickey Sliney ***01:17:41.102 = Ghost 911 Call01:19:06.115 = Eight-Legged Nightmares01:25:11.308 = A Strange Haunted Incident at Lincolnshire01:29:37.460 = The Legend of Green Eyes ***01:39:35.490 = The Bermuda Triangle Vanishing of the USS Cyclops01:45:08.928 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakHELPFUL LINKS & RESOURCES…https://WeirdDarkness.com/MUSIC = Songs and Videos by our Weird Darkness punk band, #DarkWeirdnesshttps://WeirdDarkness.com/STORE = Tees, Mugs, Socks, Hoodies, Totes, Hats, Kidswear & Morehttps://WeirdDarkness.com/HOPE = Hope For Depression or Thoughts of Self-Harmhttps://WeirdDarkness.com/NEWSLETTER = In-Depth Articles, Memes, Weird DarkNEWS, Videos & Morehttps://WeirdDarkness.com/AUDIOBOOKS = FREE Audiobooks Narrated By Darren Marlar SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Eerie Facts About Point Nemo” by Gina Dimuro for All That's Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/yc258yf8“The Exorcism of Marthe Brossier” by Mark Oliver for Ancient Origins: https://tinyurl.com/rlvzjpy“The Erdington Murders” posted at The Line Up: https://tinyurl.com/vyocutf“The Green Man” by Goth237 at YourGhostStories.com: https://tinyurl.com/sper8ua“The One Way Ride” by Troy Taylor: https://tinyurl.com/wsqod6d“The Hagley Woods Mystery” posted at The Unredacted: https://tinyurl.com/wtxqr7l“The Bermuda Triangle Vanishing of the USS Cyclops” by Joel Stice for All That's Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/sksdgpc“The Confessions of Mickey Sliney” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y8o6dehp“The Legend of Green Eyes” by Kevin Cumming for the Rome News-Tribune: https://tinyurl.com/wanmrm6“Eight-Legged Nightmares” posted at Message To Eagle: https://tinyurl.com/vu72y9u“A Strange Haunted Incident in Lincolnshire” by James at MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://tinyurl.com/smff6z6“Ghost 911 Call” by an unknown author (website no longer exists)“Vegetable Men, Space Fairies, and Other Bizarre Aliens” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://tinyurl.com/wu5k6b6=====(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. 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Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all things strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold cases, conspiracy theories, and more. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “20 Best Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a blend of “Coast to Coast AM”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, and “In Search Of”.DISCLAIMER: Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
Allen covers Nova Scotia’s ambitious 60 GW Wind West offshore plan and the standoff between Ottawa and developers over who invests first. Plus a scaled-back English onshore project faces local opposition, Blue Elephant Energy triples its German wind portfolio, Adani prepares to build India’s longest onshore blade, and Rivian signs a wind PPA to power its Illinois factory. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! There is something happening in the wind business right now. Something big … and something small. Let us start with big. In Nova Scotia … Premier Tim Houston has a dream. He calls it Wind West. Sixty gigawatts of offshore wind turbines. A transmission line to move that power across Canada and into the United States. The price tag … sixty billion dollars. Forty billion for the turbines. Twenty billion for the cables. But Ottawa says … not so fast. Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told reporters the Major Projects Office needs to see private industry commit first. No private partners … no national interest designation. And here is the catch. The developers want to see transmission infrastructure before they invest. Ottawa wants to see developers before it invests. Everybody is waiting for everybody else. Still … Houston is not worried. He says the response from developers has been … through the roof. French firm Q Energy has already applied to pre-qualify. And Natural Resources Canada just put up nearly five million dollars for a feasibility study. Houston says the wind is there. It blows … a lot. The only question is where the power goes. Now … across the Atlantic. In England … a developer is learning that sometimes bigger is not better. Calderdale Energy Park wanted to build sixty-five turbines on Walshaw Moor near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. That would have made it the largest onshore wind farm in England. Last April they cut it to forty-one. Now … thirty-four. That would match the current largest site at Keadby in Lincolnshire. Campaigners say it will still damage the peat bogs and threaten ground-nesting birds. A local parish council survey found ninety-three percent of residents opposed. The developer says it could power a quarter million homes. That application goes to the Planning Inspectorate in November. Meanwhile … in Hamburg, Germany … Blue Elephant Energy is doing some shopping. The company just acquired a three hundred eighty-one megawatt wind portfolio from Wind-Projekt. That is thirty-seven operating wind farms in northern Germany. Two hundred sixty megawatts already feeding the grid. Another forty-six megawatts under construction … coming online this year. And seventy-five more megawatts in the pipeline for twenty twenty-seven. This deal will triple their German wind capacity … from one hundred seventy-three to five hundred thirty-three megawatts. It still needs approval from the German Federal Cartel Office. Now … to India. The Adani Group is about to build the longest onshore wind turbine blade in the country. Ninety-one-point-two meters. That is the length of a football field. Those blades will create a rotor diameter of one hundred eighty-five meters. Each rotation sweeps an area larger than three football fields combined. The factory is at Mundra in the state of Gujarat. Current capacity … two-point-two-five gigawatts per year. They plan to double that to five … and eventually reach ten. India added six-point-three gigawatts of wind last year alone. That was an eighty-five percent jump over the year before. And finally … back home in the American heartland. Rivian … the electric vehicle maker … just signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy. Fifty megawatts from the proposed Goose Creek wind farm in Piatt County, Illinois. That wind farm sits within an hour of Rivian’s flagship plant in Normal, Illinois. With this deal … Rivian could power up to seventy-five percent of its factory with carbon-free energy. An electric truck company … powered by wind. So let us step back. Nova Scotia dreams of sixty gigawatts off its coast. An English moor fights over thirty-four turbines. A German company triples its wind portfolio overnight. India builds blades as long as football fields. And an American truck maker turns to the prairie wind to build its future. From the North Atlantic to the plains of Illinois … from the moors of Yorkshire to the coast of Gujarat … the wind keeps blowing. And people … keep building. And that is the state of the wind industry for the first of March twenty twenty-six. Join us for the Uptime Wind Energy podcast tomorrow.
Lets see how Kerry in Lincolnshire & Paul in Leicester manage on their round.
Rory McGowan talks to Julie Sullivan from Lincoln College and Hazel Bunting, a student there, to talk about the shortage of workers in the UK's aviation industry and how apprenticeships are filling those gaps. Lincolnshire is a prime location of the UK's aviation sector, housing a number of RAF bases alongside being the home of the iconic red arrows. Together they talk about the kinds of apprenticeships students can do, alongside Hazel's experience with the military and defence engineering she does as part of her course.
On this episode of the RealAgriculture Wheat School, Peter Johnson learns how U.K. farmer Mark Stubbs grows winter wheat that yields up to 235 bu/ac on his farm in Lincolnshire, England. Stubbs farms clay-loam soil over chalk — only about six inches of actual soil sits on top of soft chalk that provides excellent drainage... Read More
Ep 313: Reconsidered: 45 - Beverly Gail Allitt Women & Crime: Reconsidered is where we revisit our episode catalog and bring new insights, behind the scenes or updates. Original Airdate: 03/25/21 In the winter of 1991, tragedy hit the local hospital in Lincolnshire, England when many children were suddenly stricken by a mysterious & deadly illness. Doctors were baffled as these children were admitted to the hospital separately and for relatively minor conditions. However, the children did all have ONE thing in common, they were all left in the care of the same nurse… Could it be that a person trusted to guard the welfare of these patients was actually the one putting them in peril? What possibly could turn a nurse to murder? Sources for Today's Episode: Independent.co.uk RadioTimes DailyMail The Guardian TheSun murderpedia.org Credits: • Written and Hosted by Amy Shlosberg and Meghan Sacks • Produced by James Varga • Music by Dessert Media Help is Available: If you or someone you know is in a crisis situation, or a victim of domestic, or other violence, there are many organizations that can offer support or help you in your specific situation. For direct links to these organizations please visit https://womenandcrimepodcast.com/resources/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The effects of volatile international markets are currently being felt in the bank accounts of UK dairy farmers. Milk prices paid by processors started tumbling in the autumn and there've been further drops this month. Dairy Analyst Chris Walkland discusses the impact of President Trump's trade policy on milk production in the US, which has coincided with a boom in UK and European milk output...leading to a bust. We also consider whether further US trade tariffs as leverage over Greenland could further destabilise dairy trade.We meet a Welsh farmer adding Sunflowers to the cattle feed crops grown on his farm, to cut his feed bill in volatile times. The European Parliament has voted to refer a deal with the South American trade bloc Mercosur to the European Court of Justice, in a move which could see a two year delay in the agreement coming into operation, or even derail it altogether. The European Commission signed the deal with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on Saturday. But yesterday MEPs decided its legality needs to be tested. If a water company pollutes rivers or releases sewage illegally, it can be taken to court and fined. The government has just announced that it's reinvesting £29 million pounds from these fines into more than 100 projects to improve 450km of rivers, restore 650 acres of natural habitats and plant 100,000 new trees. The money collected from precious water company fines between April 2022 and 23 was put into a Water Restoration Fund and it's already being spent on local projects. We visit one, on the River Witham in Lincolnshire.Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Sarah Swadling
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Mancini Collection Nathan Avakian ATOS 2025 Milwaukee 2025 4-90 Wurlitzer Composite, Carma Labs, Franklin, WI; 2025-07-23 13:03 Sunshine Bill Vlasak Concert: Berkeley Community Theatre 1993-03-06 1993 4-29 Wurlitzer, Berkeley Community Theatre, CA; Irving Berlin Tribute 15:46 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers: Bless Yore Beautiful Hide; June Bride; Spring, Spring, Spring; Goin Co tin ; When You re in Love; Sobbin Women; Wonderful, Wonderful Day Simon Gledhill ATOS 2023 Chicago 2023 4-26 Barton hybrid, Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL; final convention concert 2023-07-06 28:16 Tik-Tak Polka John Mann Unforgettable [Soundline SLO 4021] 2001 3-10 Compton, Burtey Fen Collection, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire; ex-Ritz Cinema, Tunbridge Wells 31:27 España (Spanish Waltzes) Ron Rhode Arizona Stars [Roxy RP-116-CD] 2004 3-30 Wurlitzer, Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix (not original) 37:04 The Beautiful Galatea John Ledwon Curtain Up [JBL Productions CD] 2000 4-52 Wurlitzer, Ledwon Residence, Agoura, CA 46:44 Quando Me 'N Vo (Musetta's Waltz) Lee Erwin ATOS 1967 Detroit 1967 4-34 Wurlitzer, Senate Theatre, Detroit 51:27 The Blue Danube George Wright Live In Concert - Portland Organ Grinder, 1976 [Banda 201802] 1976 4-41 Wurlitzer, Organ Grinder Pizza, Portland, OR; console ex-Metropolitan Theatre, Boston; concert November 20, 1976 57:41 Radetsky March Jelani Eddington Indiana Revisited [RJE Productions CD] 2008 3-18 Barton, Warren Performing Arts Centre; ex Indiana Theatre, Indianapolis (3000 seats)
A Big Brain in Lockdown! In this week's episode we travel with Neil through a plague-ridden Britain to meet an incredible man whose genius helped us understand how the world works – Isaac Newton, Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, Great Britain. To help support this Podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver on Patreon.comhttps://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Gold Bullion Partners,for more info about buying gold & silver go to this affiliate link,https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/download-our-complimentary-guide-neil-oliver/ To Donate,go to Neil's Website:https://www.neiloliver.com Shop:https://neil-oliver.creator-spring.com Neil Oliver YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@Neil-Oliver Rumble site – Neil Oliver Official:https://rumble.com/c/c-6293844 Instagram - NeilOliverLoveLetter:https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverloveletter Podcasts:Season 1: Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British IslesSeason 2: Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The WorldAvailable on all the usual providershttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-olivers-love-letter-to-the-british-isles #NeilOliver #IsaacNewton #Lockdown #Pandemic #Plague #Britain #WoolsthorpeManor #Gravity #3lawsofmotion #history #neiloliverGBNews #travel #culture #ancient #historyfact #explore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a special New Year's episode, Mr Jim Moon investigates the legend of a ghost who reported walks on New Year's Day - the Black Lady of Bradley Woods. In this show we trace the history of this Lincolnshire haunting, and discover how the folklore has changed and evolved over the years.
Today's episode is a story submitted by Liam Lambert, @crowtagonist on Instagram. Liam shares a coming of age tale about creating his own backyard wrestling federation in the suburbs of Lincolnshire. It's a heartwarming story about pro-wrestling's ability to forge strong bonds among people, even as they grow up and move apart. To submit your story go to The Work Of Wrestling's Facebook page and click on the pinned post. That will take you to a Google form you can fill out. Thank you for your listenership in 2025.
How can a golf course become a place for nature and people to thrive? Ajay Tegala visits Sandilands in Lincolnshire over its first year as the once manicured lawns transform into a wetland habitat. But with one of the driest springs on record, can Sandilands go from one birdie to another? Will there be enough water for wading birds return? [Ad] Wild Tales is sponsored by Cotswold Outdoor, your outside retailer and epic guides to adventure. Quick breathers, calming walks or heart-pounding hikes. We feel better when we get out more. Find quality kit and 50 years of outdoor wisdom. Plus, supporters save 15% in-store and online. Feel in your element, in the elements, at Cotswold Outdoor. www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/ Watch a video of this podcast on the National Trust's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nationaltrustcharity/podcasts Production Presenter: Ajay Tegala Producer: Marnie Woodmeade Sound designer: Jesus Gomez Contributors Carl Hawke Kirsty James Dave Miller Special Credit: A big thanks to Jannis Bonner, composer student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, for their collaboration to this episode with the track "Breath of the Canopy". Eurasian booming bittern sfx: Author: Niels Krable Link: https://xeno-canto.org/100296 Discover more If you want to visit Sandilands or keep up to date with their progress you can find them here: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/sandilands Follow us @wildtalesnt Instagram account Image credit: ©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman If you'd like to get in touch with feedback, or have a story connected with the National Trust, you can contact us at podcasts@nationaltrust.org.uk
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