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Psychic Investigations: exploring the weird British Isles

JAN 23

Penwith

Penwith, at the far south western peninsular of Cornwall, the tip of England, where, above the coastal villages, there's a landscape haunted by megaliths and ghosts of tin mines.

4 min
10/21/2025

The Countryside

The English countryside exists laregly in the imagination. Much of it is a factory, and only 8% is accessible to the public.

10 min
09/03/2025

Malmesbury

In Malmesbury I found the tomb of Athelstan - the least well known first king of England. He was a lover of toast and hot air ballooning.

6 min
07/16/2025

Glanmore, Wicklow

95% of the population of Ireland speak English as their first language. English is the first language spoken by the majority of people in Wales and Scotland. But these other nations reverberate with their ancient Celtic languages, they seep through, will never be suppressed.

7 min
06/10/2025

Rochester

Rochester, a city destroyed by an accident...and reborn through the fog of imagination.

6 min
06/02/2025

The Pub

Most of us spend far too much time in the pub. What makes them so wonderful? Four of us went to Bristol to find out. (Unlike most of these podcasts this one is recorded on a small hand held device. Quality is sometimes compromised. And we get drunk.)

23 min
04/09/2025

Searching for the Green Man #3 - Salisbury

Salisbury, Wiltshire - in the cathedral we find witches' marks, protection against evil: against spells, Russian agents and maybe green men.

7 min
02/17/2025

Roast Beef and Roundabouts

Many in the UK seek comfort in the past, whether the Celtic twilight of Camelot, or pride in the innovations of the Victorian era. But peel away the fantasies and we're left with little - just overcooked roast beef and roundabouts. This is a rant about our obsession with the past - and obsessions in general, whether these are my own, or those of the nostalgic British public.

14 min

Psychic Investigations: exploring the weird British Isles

Creator

yawn the post
Years Active

2019 - 2026
Episodes

58
Rating

Clean
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