National Treasures with Laura Lexx and Will Duggan

Hurrah! We've got Colin Hoult, who you may know better as Anna Mann, but perhaps no, perhaps you do just know him as Colin Hoult? Either way he's here and he's telling us all about his love of Wollaton Hall, which we visited las week. We chat sandwich bags, we delve further into the subject of supper, we have a look at Trip Advisor reviews... it's got it all.

Check out Colin's tour dates here: https://iamcolinhoult.com/

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It's the start of a new month which means a new adventure! This week, Laura and Will head off to Nottinghamshire to visit the incredible Wollaton Hall, which you might know best as Wayne Manor. Ooooh! Laura and Will explore the taxidermy, the guns, the games, the costumes and accidentally stumble across an archaeological dig!

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Hello glorious listener! For our final episode in Cheddar Gorge month we bring you Laura's best research on animals in the Victorian Era. From ole Queen Vicky herself and her pet choices, right through animal welfare and the homes of the masses, and into the more exotic choices for pets becoming available.

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We sit down with absolute podcasting royalty this week to ask him about one of his true life's passions: Cheddar Gorge. Richard Herring of RHLSTP fame has the tables turned as we ask him some seriously stupid question, some seriously brilliant questions, and have a good laugh with him about the natural wonder that is Cheddar Gorge.

Richard is wonderfully dynamic and enthusiastic about his former stomping ground. For the full version of this interview head over to our patreon page where we offer a monthly live stream, an extra podcast every week, and extended versions of our main feed of podcasts all for only a fiver a month!

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It's excursion week, and the start of a brand new month of adventuring! This week, the dynamic duo Laura Lexx and Will Duggan are off to Somerset, Laura's birthplace, to visit Cheddar Gorge on the orders of none other than the King of Cheddar - Richard Herring!

Laura and Will go deep into not one but two caves, and also to the very top of the mountain via Jacob's Ladder. Laura is still recovering from an ultra marathon at this point so it's debatable how smart it is for her to be going up so many steps but she goes anyway.

Join us next week when we chat to the wonderful Richard Herring about why he loves Cheddar so much and why he sent us there...

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Due to the new format and not wanting to confuse people by starting a new topic in the same month (and yes it is September now, but this was supposed to come out on Wednesday which was still August, but Will just had a nightmare).

We thought we'd use this week to try and entice some of the non Patreon listeners over to Patreon (patreon.com/nationaltreasures) by dropping some white hot behind the paywall content for free.

In this episode of Years and Years Laura told Will all about 1953. What should you expect? Awful hitmen, Potentially mentally jarring births and deaths, though weirdly, not for Will, and the most unbelievable Big Finish we have ever had.

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In a world first for National Treasures we present our first ever Deep Dive episode! In the first week of August we visited IWM Duxford, then the following week we talked to Ed Byrne all about it. Now, the people have spoken and told us that the two things they want more detail on from our trip and our chat are Concorde and sexy pin up ladies. Next week Will will be telling Laura all about sexy pin up ladies but RIGHT NOW, Laura is telling Will all about concorde.

Turns out, Laura hated researching Concorde because it was both:

complicated

AND

boring

She does her best to tell Will all about it, despite the glaring gaps in her knowledge. She also has a very good go at offending at least 1/4 of England. Her first fact goes down like a bag of cold sick and it only gets worse from there... enjoy!

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