Stories From Our Island

Discover Hidden Britain brings you On The Road with us to Tiddesley Wood near Pershore in Worcestershire. Seemingly surrounded by apple and plum orchards ripe for cider and sampling, come with us as we head into this historic woodland with its ancient...

Back We Come For Series 2 On The Road - Come Take an Autumn Walk with Discover Hidden Britain. Come with us as we set off into the British woodland on a circular wander spotting signs of autumn and signs of nature as we head into the English countryside...

Back We Come For Series 2 - Discover Hidden Britain returns with plans for the new podcasts this series - 'On The Road' - and give you a taster of our itinerary! We want you to come with us as we venture out with Discover Hidden Britain into the...

Who doesn't love a castle? Who cares whether it's a hill fort, a motte and bailey, a Norman keep or the wonderful concentric castles? For there is plenty of all those round these parts in Britain. But in this episode, Discover Hidden Britain takes you...

It seems entirely in keeping with this legend of English Literature that Thomas Hardy's heart should remain in Dorset. No literally. For this writer, novelist and poet was a man of Dorset and the land of his home and his childhood was the setting for...

Explore Classical Music Composer Edward Elgar's England with Discover Hidden Britain. Step into Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills - his inspiration and his home. Discover the cottage he once called home, the places Elgar explored and ventured like...

Sometimes history tells us of something so bonkers that it must be true - that two men in a field in rural Northamptonshire could test out some scientific innovation that would save hundreds, possibly thousands of lives in the Second World War, in the...

Sometimes nature is the best medicine. The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire is a contradiction - an industrial forest with the heart of iron and coal, a history of mining and smelting, of charcoal and timber production but a Forest that now savours its...

Explore the historic old harbourside of Portsmouth with Discover Hidden Britain. A step away from the popular shipyard and commercial shops following the chain-link Millennium Trail towards the old seawalls, the Napoleonic fortifications and of course...

Take an amble with Discover Hidden Britain on the long distance walking trail of the National Trail's Cotswolds Way in Gloucestershire. Get an up close study of one stretch around Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge with a stop at Tyndale's Monument. Learn of...