By Christopher Winn
Join me and my special guests in this new podcast series as we travel to all four corners of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland discovering entertaining stories and fascinating facts, hearing epi
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In this episode Christopher explores the beginnings of Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, travels south into Lanarkshire to experience the world’s longest echo, then north west across the Clyde to Scotland’s most ancient capital before finishing back in Glasgow to find out where English comics went to die.
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In this episode Christopher visits more of Southern Scotland taking in a pink palace that was once the only place in the world where you could see a Rembrandt, a Holbein and a da Vinci simultaneously, a loch where history was made, the romantic abbey where the world’s first sweetheart lies, the modest birthplace of Scotland’s national poet and the only place in Britain visited by the King - or was it?
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In this episode Christopher visits Southern Scotland, travelling first along the River Tweed in the Border country, taking in the baronial home of Scotland’s most famous novelist, two beautiful ruined abbeys with stories to tell and the world’s first vehicular suspension bridge, and then taking a ride to Glasgow on the world’s first pedal bike.
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In this episode, Christopher explores London taking in the capital’s first - and best - man made viewpoint, the room where a shy 18 year old girl became a Queen, an ancient secret garden, a house shared by two of the world’s greatest musicians, and a green museum at the gates a palace.
Places to visit:
The Red Saloon, Kensington Palace
https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/history-and-stories/the-story-of-kensington-palace/#gs.0q6qt3
College Garden, Westminster Abbey
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/corporate-hospitality/venues/college-garden-summer-season
Brook Street W1
https://handelhendrix.org
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In this episode Christopher visits the Lincolnshire Wolds of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the most beautiful building in the world in Cambridgeshire, an Englishman’s castle in Norfolk, the England we dream of in Suffolk and a cathedral on the edge of the world in Essex.
Places to visit:
Lincolnshire Wolds https://www.lincswolds.org.uk
King’s College Chapel https://www.visitcambridge.org
Holkham Hall, Norfolk https://www.holkham.co.uk
Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury http://www.gainsborough.org
Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex https://www.visitessex.com
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In this special episode Christopher tells the story of how St George came to be the patron saint of England, and visits some of the places in England most associated with him.
Places to See:
Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) Palace of WestminsterSt George’s Chapel, WindsorDragon Hill, Uffington White Horse, near Wantage, Oxfordshire.St Botolph’s, Hardham, West SussexSt George’s, Fordington, Dorchester, DorsetAll Saints, Little Kimble, BuckinghamshireSt Peter’s, Barton, CambridgeshireSt Botolph’s, Banningham, NorfolkSt Catherine’s, Fritton, NorfolkSt Mary’s, Troston, SuffolkSt Lawrence’s, Broughton, BuckinghamshireSt Gregory’s, Norwich---
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In this episode Christopher visits the northern capital of the Roman empire, the scene of the naval battle that secured American independence, the village where man first flew, and the setting for the world’s first moving pictures.
Places to visit:
York
https://www.visityork.org/explore/yorks-city-walls-p1188501
Flamborough Head
https://www.yorkshire.com/places/yorkshire-coast/flamborough
Leeds
https://www.visitleeds.co.uk
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In this episode Christopher visits the only mainland community in Britain to be cut off by the daily tides, in Lancashire, a lakeland castle where all is yellow, the Georgian port in Cumberland that inspired New York, the home of one of England’s great heroines in Northumberland and the oldest railway bridge in the world in County Durham.
Places to visit:
Lowther Castle https://lowthercastle.org
Whitehaven https://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/whitehaven/
Bamburgh https://www.bamburgh.org.uk
Causey Arch https://www.thisisdurham.com/things-to-do/causey-arch-and-picnic-area-p21641
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In this episode Christopher discovers the world’s first skyscraper in Shropshire, walks beside a lake dedicated to love in Staffordshire, follows in the footsteps of a legend in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, discovers a village in Derbyshire that died so that others might live and strolls through the world’s first public park in Cheshire.
Places to visit:
Shrewsbury Flax Mill, Shropshire
Rudyard Lake, Staffordshire
Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
Eyam, Derbyshire
Birkenhead Park, Wirral
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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.