Martin Hesp visits the annual Cutcombe Christmas Show - one of the last traditional 'fatstock' Christmas shows of its kind left in the UK - and soaks up the seasonal atmosphere talking to organisers and previous winning turkey breeders

A never-before published or aired speech by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlining his little known "Grannifesto" - based on a book of his own grandmother's diaries called Alas Poor Johnny

Martin Hesp takes a long stroll through Tokyo, eventually meeting up with his old friend Adam Kennedy who has lived there for 17 years so that he can get a local's eye view...

Martin joins the salmon nets-men of the River Exe estuary on a summer's day before the UK wide ban on netting for salmon was brought into force seeing the end of a 1000 year-old tradition

Listening to former Prime Minister, Theresa May, make a speech in Plymouth the other day, I was reminded of the time I talked to the present PM, Boris Johnson, about his grandmother and grandfather. I knew them well - if you're wondering why I should talk to a politician about their grandparents... 

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