Northumberland
My sitcom-worthy walking holiday
I’ve just returned from a walking holiday in Northumberland with Caroline and my mother-in-law. I say ‘walking’ but that makes…
The Vikings never really went away
The Norsemen were settlers as well as raiders, and by the 860s had built up a ‘great heathen army’ to conquer and colonise much of Britain and the Continent
Diary
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
Still life
You might think it a fool’s errand to attempt programmes about art on the wireless. How can you talk about…
From horses to glasses
A stint in dry dock — the ‘dry’ literally — has one advantage. There is time for lots of long…
