Podcast Episodes

33. Magna Carta

Season 1 Episode 33

This week, Neil travels to see an iconic document that shook the world.

In 1215 a battling king squared up to his rebellious barons in a power struggle produced Magna Carta and a new political order. …

Published on 5 years ago

32. Durham Cathedral

Season 1 Episode 32

This week Neil travels back in time, almost 1000 years, to what became the city of Durham and the construction of a majestic building whose beauty and power have resonated down through the centuries …

Published on 5 years ago

31. The Great War

Season 1 Episode 31

This week Neil’s journey takes us in search of the battle whose ferocity, violence and savagery shocked the whole of the British Isles and shaped its borders for ever – the battle of Brunanburh.

The r…

Published on 5 years ago

30. A Great King, Hyde Abbey, Winchester

Season 1 Episode 30

This week Neil takes us in search of the remains of one the greatest Kings ever to reign in the British Isles.

Not far from Winchester’s city centre, in amongst modern residential streets, Neil is on …

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29. King Alfred the Great versus the Viking, The Alfred Jewel

Season 1 Episode 29

This week Neil takes us back in time to meet a king who stopped the Vikings in their tracks.

Sitting in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford is a precious golden artefact called the Alfred Jewel, which is o…

Published on 5 years ago

28. The Vikings Great Heathen Army, Repton, Derbyshire

Season 1 Episode 28

This week Neil winters with the Great Heathen Army, the mighty Viking force that was poised, ready to sweep across the British Isles.

After the Vikings defeated the powerful Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mer…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

27. The Vikings Are Here! Brough of Birsay, Orkney.

Season 1 Episode 27

This week Neil takes us with him to a place of stunning beauty with a dark and brutal past.

For years the Vikings well-deserved reputation for violence and brutality left a bloody stain right across t…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

26. The Vikings, Lindisfarne, Northumberland.

Season 1 Episode 26

In this episode Neil takes us to an island stained with the first bloody fingerprints of an invader who would change the British Isles forever.

Heading to the Northumberland coast, at low tide, Neil w…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

25. King Arthur, Northumberland

Season 1 Episode 25

This week, on his journey around the British Isles, Neil takes us to Northumberland to meet the legendary, King Arthur.

Climbing the battlements of the imposing Bamburgh Castle, swirling with mist and…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

24. Iona, Inner Hebrides

Season 1 Episode 24

In this episode Neil’s journey takes us to a magical island where the landscape, the light and the very air you breath come together to soothe the soul.

This week Neil sails from Oban, on the west coa…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago