these weird isles

Dec 10 2024 53 ep. 7 mins 74

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Psychic Investigations: exploring the weird British Isles

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Looking for the Green Man #2

Dec 10 2024 7 mins

Through an entrance decorated with foliated faces and soot-shrouded beasts into a great room in which there is a five hundred year old whale bone, an orchestra, a composer, a chaos pendulum and several green men.

The Cul-de-Sac

Nov 24 2024 5 mins

The cul-de-sac, at least in the UK, is very different from the dead end street. It is a haven and closer to paradise than you would imagine.

Cathedral Cities

Nov 09 2024 4 mins

Cathedrals dominate the skylines of many British cities. Their development took place over a period of over 1000 years and represent one of the most astonishing artistic and technical achievements of western Europe.

Kinder Scout

Jul 16 2024 7 mins

Kinder Scout, a mountain plateau in Derbyshire, UK, where, in 1932 a mass trespass drew attention to the cause of the right to roam.

Blackpool

Jul 02 2024 11 mins

Is there a link between anti-depressant use and deprivation? Why does Blackpool have the most anti-depressant use in the UK? What is the matter with us? Is it Big Pharma or something else?

Looking for the Green Man #1

May 31 2024 4 mins

The first in a series of occasional episodes in which I attempt to find some of this weird isles' hidden green men.

Camberwell

May 13 2024 10 mins

Remembering an afternoon in Camberwell spent with artist Tom Phillips, admiring his Humament, his Cloopseend, not to mention his Hairy Balls.

Skye

Apr 14 2024 8 mins

The Isle of Skye, home of the Talisker whisky distillery and controversial psychiatrist and writer, Iain McGilchrist. Featuring the pithy analytical mind of my neighbour Lofty Hazelhurst.

Colchestopia

Mar 26 2024 4 mins

Imagine a perfect world. What would you do?

Harrogate and Tea

Mar 19 2024 7 mins

Tea drinking in Britain was once a ritual, an institution. Tea was pivotal in two British wars, one with the embryonic USA, the other, China. Today, most tea is tasteless piss - a bag of dust dipped in a mug of boiled water - although grand old tea shops, like Betty's in Harrogate, try to maintain some standards, and hold back the rising tide: of coffee.