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The VerbHedges and poetryIan McMillan's guests celebrate hedges, with poetry from Alison Brackenbury and Testament, singing from Sam Lee, Michael Symmons Roberts explores a poem with a nightingale at its centre, and hedgelayer Paul Lamb records himself walking a hedgerow that's rich in wildlife.This hedge-themed special features a haunted hedge from poet Alison Brackenbury, part of the anthology 'Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined' (ed, Anna Milon and Rory Waterman). Alison's hedge started off life as a talking hedge in her non-fiction book 'Village' which is all about her childhood home in Lincolnshire (to be published online in July)...2025-06-0141 min
Farming Today31/05/25 Farming Today This Week: Drought in north west England; new reservoirs; national parks; golden eagles.The Environment Agency says the north west of England is in drought. One farmer tells us this year's crops are already ruined because of a lack of water.Two proposed reservoirs have been given 'nationally significant' status by the government to speed up the planning process. Decisions on the Lincolnshire Reservoir which is planned for an area near Sleaford and the Fens Reservoir near March in Cambridgeshire will now be accelerated. Ministers say the law will also be changed so that in the future all projects which are, as they put it, 'fundamental to national water resilience...2025-05-3124 minFarming Today29/05/25 New Reservoirs, Golden Eagles, Coastal National ParkTwo proposed reservoirs have been given 'nationally significant' status by the government to speed up the planning process. Decisions on the Lincolnshire Reservoir which is planned for an area near Sleaford and the Fens Reservoir near March in Cambridgeshire will now be accelerated. Ministers say the law will also be changed so that in the future all projects which are, as they put it, 'fundamental to national water resilience' will automatically be designated as 'nationally significant'. Farming communities are concerned about the impact on productive farmland, and one farmer says the Lincolnshire scheme will wipe out her home and...2025-05-2914 min
NewscastLocal Electioncast: The Results! (Part 1)Today, Reform have won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes - one of the closest parliamentary elections ever. Sarah Pochin overturned Labour's large majority to become Reform's fifth MP after a recount. Elsewhere, Reform wins its first mayoral election in Greater Lincolnshire, and Labour narrowly holds three mayoral races in North Tyneside, the West of England, and Doncaster - with Reform second in all three. This is still an emerging picture, with plenty more results to come.Adam is joined by Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg - as well as Richard...2025-05-021h 04
Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling55. The Corned Beef KillerIn May, 1934, an anonymous letter arrives at Horncastle Police Station in Lincolnshire. The letter tells detectives that they need to investigate the death of Arthur Major, a local lorry driver who was reported to have died of natural causes. “In the name of the law, I beg you to analyse the contents of his stomach,” it says.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk Details of help and support with dome...2025-01-1342 min
Money BoxMoney Box Live: Missing Out on Financial Support?Each year it’s estimated that £23 billion worth of help and support – from housing benefits to pension credit – goes unclaimed according to Policy in Practice. We look at the kind of help that is available, and hear from listeners on their experiences trying to claim the benefits they’re entitled to, as well as who might be able to get money off their childcare or broadband bills.Presenter Felicity Hannah is joined by a panel of experts who answer your questions on how to make the best of the available support: Rachael Walker, research and policy di...2024-11-1328 min
Soul MusicBenedictusSir Karl Jenkins' Benedictus is the penultimate movement from his anti-war mass, The Armed Man. Written twenty-five years ago this year and performed over three thousand times, Sir Karl dedicated it to the victims of the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. It was originally commissioned by The Royal Armouries Museum and premiered for the millennium. The Armed Man as a whole reflects the descent into war, but the movement of Benedictus' emerges as a message of hope and peace in the aftermath. Benedictus is recognised for its haunting cello theme, in a register unusually high for this resonant instrument...2024-11-0927 minSoul MusicBenedictusSir Karl Jenkins' Benedictus is the penultimate movement from his anti-war mass, The Armed Man. Written twenty-five years ago this year and performed over three thousand times, Sir Karl dedicated it to the victims of the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. It was originally commissioned by The Royal Armouries Museum and premiered for the millennium.The Armed Man as a whole reflects the descent into war, but the movement of Benedictus' emerges as a message of hope and peace in the aftermath. Benedictus is recognised for its haunting cello theme, in a register unusually high for this resonant instrument...2024-11-0927 min
Gardeners' CornerGardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost on his new garden and autumn trees at Brook HallWith the leaves falling presenter David Maxwell heads to the 25 acre arboretum at Brook Hall near Derry. David Gilliland shows him some of the large collection of trees that are dazzling before their leaves drop including one which smells like toffee! Also on the programme, Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost on his life, career and his new garden in Lincolnshire. Oliver Schurmann reveals his penultimate perennial of the month and David is joined in studio by Brendan Little who will take questions from listeners and offer some seasonal advice. Contact the programme on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk 2024-10-1956 min
All in the MindMental health of military drone operators, conspiracy theories, the All in the Mind AwardsMembers of the UK military piloting unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, operate from Lincolnshire - a long way from frontline battlefields in the Middle East. Via their drones' cameras, they can watch their enemy targets for days or even weeks at a time. But while they might be physically safe, their close-up views of traumatic events can cause mental harm. In this episode, Claudia Hammond speaks to a former pilot of military drones. They are joined by Professor Dominic Murphy, who is head of research at the Combat Stress Centre for Applied Military Health Research, an...2024-10-0127 minMoney BoxWinter Fuel Payment and Using CashMany pensioners in England and Wales will lose Winter Fuel Payments this year. This annual payment had been universal and worth £200 or £300 pounds a year, depending on your age. From this winter it will be restricted to pensioners receiving Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits. The reason for means testing it this way is to save money - about £1.5bn each year. In a statement the government told us that "given the dire state of the public finances we have inherited, it’s right that we target support to those who need it most." So how will you be affec...2024-09-2824 min
Seriously...Stoppage Time for ScunthorpeWhen Bury FC was expelled from the Football League after 125 years, the government commissioned a fan-led review of football's financial stability. Centring the importance of football clubs to hundreds of local communities, it recommended tough new rules about governance and ownership of football clubs. Five years on and with both Labour and the Conservatives supporting the creation of a new regulator, Scunthorpe United has become a case study for why politicians think they need to step in. A succession of owners, a string of relegations and a more than gloomy balance book left the North Lincolnshire town wondering what...2024-07-0528 min
Open CountryGibraltar PointMartha Kearney explores the shifting sands of Gibraltar Point on the Lincolnshire coast, to witness the effects of beach erosion on both birds and people.At Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve, wardens go to extraordinary lengths to protect shore-nesting birds from habitat loss caused by beach erosion. They build wooden platforms for the nests of little terns and cages to protect the nests of ringed plover, as well as mounting overnight patrols to keep predators away. In 2023 they tried the platform technique with oystercatchers for the first time, meticulously moving the nests in stages so as not...2024-05-1623 min
Hope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastDavid Preece on coaching in football's Indian Super LeagueEx Imps goalkeeper David Preece talks to Rob Makepeace about working with Bengaluru FC.2024-03-1515 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastAdrian Patulea "I never wanted to leave"Rob and Michael speak to Imps cult hero Adrian Patulea about his time at the Imps.2024-03-0819 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastWhat has changed under Michael Skubala?A look at the changes Michael Skubala has implemented since becoming Imps head coach.2024-03-0110 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastDiabolical DecisionTwenty years on, we look back at one of the worst refereeing decisions against the Imps.2024-02-2320 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastRemembering a special day at BurnleyRob and Michael look back at a memorable day in the FA Cup.2024-02-1616 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastJez George SpecialLincoln’s Director of Football reviews the transfer window, and looks at what is to come.2024-02-0835 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastThe best January deadline day signingsRob and Michael debate who was Lincoln City's best January deadline day signing.2024-02-0113 minHope and Glory: A Lincoln City PodcastImps in Ireland SpecialWe explore the relationship between Lincoln City and the League of Ireland.2024-01-2531 min
This Cultural LifeBernie TaupinLyricist Bernie Taupin is one half of one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of all time. For more than 50 years, he has written the lyrics for Elton John’s songs including Tiny Dancer, Candle In The Wind, Rocket Man, Your Song and hundreds more. Having first met in 1967, after they both answered an advert in the NME placed by a record company seeking new musical talent, Elton John and Bernie Taupin have sold more than 300 million albums globally. Born in Lincolnshire, Bernie Taupin has lived in States since the mid 1970s and became an American citizen in 1990. With th...2023-10-2144 min
The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist81 Talking TCKs on BBC Radio LincolnshireOn May 19th I spoke to Melvyn Prior on BBC Radio Lincolnshire about TCKs and my book "Incredible Lives and the Courage to Live Them: Thoughts of a Third Culture Kid therapist".If you are an adult TCK, you probably sense that the multicultural, high mobility experiences of your childhood continue to impact your life in some way now. Making sense of the impact of these experiences, however, can feel overwhelming, especially if we have long experience of our stories being met with bafflement and incredulity.My hope is that this collection of my...2023-05-2210 min
Woman's HourBel Powley, UTIs, Thai Elections, Theatre for Teenagers, Under PressureMost of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family, in Amsterdam during the Second World War. You are probably less familiar with the name of the woman who agreed to keep them safe in those secret attic rooms. Miep Gies was Otto’s secretary, and when they were eventually located and sent to their deaths, it was Miep who found Anne’s diary and kept it. A new TV series tells the whole story from Miep’s perspective, and she is played...2023-05-0957 min
Desert Island DiscsRobert Webb, comedianRobert Webb first reached a wide audience as the co-star of Channel 4’s longest running sitcom, the BAFTA-award winning Peep Show. With his long-standing comedy partner David Mitchell, he also created That Mitchell and Webb Sound for BBC Radio 4, which transferred to TV as That Mitchell and Webb Look, which also won a BAFTA. Robert was born in Lincolnshire and first became hooked on comedy when his impressions of teachers made his school friends laugh. After realising that many of his comedy heroes had studied at Cambridge University, and were members of the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to...2023-04-0236 minThe VerbSeductive PlacesThe Verb is lured this week into seductive places: poet Luke Wright presents a show full of light, cool water, shadows on stone, and the over-reliance on place-names (by lyricists). His guests are the poet Helen Mort (who shares poems of swimming and Lincolnshire from her collection 'The Illustrated Woman'), by the cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson who tries to persuade Luke that his passion for the Evelyn Waugh novel 'Brideshead Revisited' is misplaced - by Kate Fox (Verb regular and stand-up poet) who discovers seduction nirvana in an unlikely popular song, and by Anita Sethi (author of 'I...2023-02-1044 min
The LGBT Sport PodcastThe One with Zack LeaderWe’re kicking off 2023 on the podcast with a trip back to the grassroots, and a cracking conversation with someone doing their bit to try and make the beautiful game open for everyone.Zack Leader is Lincolnshire FA’s new LGBTQ+ ambassador – and a man who lives and breathes the beautiful game. He’s also someone who knows a fair bit about adrenaline rushes, having previously been a British gravity bike champion – and as a Spurs fan, we were always going to like him. We talk about the role football played for him growing up...2023-01-0432 min
Unexpected ElementsCOVID spreads in ChinaHong Kong health expert Professor Malik Peiris relates the lessons from the devastation there earlier this year. UK virologist Dr Tom Peacock reveals the unusual origins and evolution of omicron, and explains the risks of dangerous new variants. New studies from China are revealing further SARS-like viruses in the wild; Professor Eddie Holmes says they underline the risk of further pandemics. What are the clouds like where you are? When you look upwards can you see great tufts of cotton wool, or do they stretch off into the distance, flat like sheets. Are...2022-12-041h 05
CrowdScienceWhat gives clouds their shapes?What are the clouds like where you are? When you look upwards can you see great tufts of cotton wool, or do they stretch off into the distance, flat like sheets. Are they dark greys and purples, bringing the promise of rain or maybe there aren’t any at all. For listener John from Lincolnshire in the UK clouds looking up at the clouds is a favourite pastime and he wants to know why they look the way they do and why they are so different from one day to the next.Join Presenter Marnie Chesterton as we...2022-12-0229 minWoman's HourListener Week: a basic guide to economics, quizzes, ageing without childrenSarah wrote in suggesting we provide a basic guide to economics. Economics is so central to our lives but few of us, she thinks, are economically literate enough to engage properly with the constant references in the news. Sarah is joined by Rupal Patel, Senior Economist at the Bank of England and co-author of Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions.
One of our listeners – Roz Unwin – wanted to share her passion for quizzing. She took it up over lockdown, and now runs her own quizzes in North London. She joins Emma, along with Alice...2022-08-2257 min
Mark Steel's in TownBostonMark Steel performs for the residents of Boston.During his visit to the Lincolnshire town, he takes a look at the Stump and sprouts and sees for himself why the inhabitants have no need of a handbrake. Mark tries to work out what makes the town so distinctive. With a guest appearance from a Boston rapper. Series in which the comedian visits towns across the UK and creates a stand-up show for the locals.Producer: Julia McKenzieFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.2021-07-3029 minOpen CountryJourney to the Source of the AncholmeIan Marchant tracks the River Ancholme to its source. Others might prefer the Limpopo or the Zambesi, but Ian is drawn to the subtle mysteries of the canal-like Ancholme in Lincolnshire, arguing that there are delights to be found if you take a close look in your own back yard. And there are plenty of delights. If historic boats are your thing then there's Humber Sloop Amy Howson, an ochre-sailed ship moored at the mouth of the Ancholme, in the care of the Humber Keels and Sloop Preservation Society, or Brigg Raft, a five metre Bronze age raft designed...2021-07-2223 min
YorkshirecastOh we do like to be beside the seasideLook North reporter David Rhodes speaks to the team about the cost of setting-up Yorkshire’s Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate and the way public money was spent on the project. It was one of a number of temporary hospitals built at the height of the pandemic. And Gemma catches up with BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Scott Dalton and Sharon Edwards who have spent the last week in Skegness talking to the people that keep our coast open for tourists.
Producer: Louise Wheeler
Studio Director: Qendresa Zena2021-06-1926 min
Private PassionsLaura CummingThe writer and art critic Laura Cumming talks to Michael Berkeley about the music and art she loves and the extraordinary story of her family. Laura has been writing about art for The Observer for more than two decades, but her books suggest that at heart she’s really a detective. All three have unravelled mysteries: a missing Velázquez painting; the inner lives of great artists revealed through their self-portraits; and the secrets and lies which lay behind the kidnap of her mother, aged three, on a Lincolnshire beach in 1929.She describes how her mot...2021-05-3037 min
The Food ProgrammeSchool Food: Re-imaginedWhat is the current school meal model, how well is it working and how has the pandemic highlighted existing problems and created new ones?More importantly, given the very public problems that have cropped up in recent months, how can the system be improved and made more sustainable and resilient?Sheila Dillon brings together a panel of school food visionaries to re-imagine the way we provide meals to pupils across the UK, and consider whether and how we could change the system for the better.They are Jeanette Orrey - a former dinner...2021-02-2829 minYorkshirecastPolling, The PM and Parish CouncilsGemma, James and Tim discuss May's local and mayoral elections in England which will be going ahead. They look at how they will work in a Covid-safe way. Aisha Iqbal speaks to the Prime Minister about the vaccination programme in Yorkshire after he visited Batley. We've heard a lot recently about mental health during the pandemic. Recent research shows that nearly all colleges in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have at least one student who's made an attempt on their own lives in the past 12 months. We hear from one school in North Yorkshires about what they are doing to support their...2021-02-0724 min
Radio 1’s All Day Breakfast with Greg JamesThe BIG Shop BoughtyHave you been the No.1 buyer of a product from your local store? If so, you could be a contender in Greg’s brand new quiz. Also, a special Animal News with BBC Lincolnshire’s Alex Rhodes and a very awkward deleted WhatsApp message from listener Steph – but…was it deleted too late?2021-01-2733 minYorkshirecastRetail, Restrictions and Roy's RollsFor most of the region they left lockdown with tougher restrictions compared to when they entered - some businesses are thriving but others are struggling. The team speak to Katrina Pierce from the Federation of Small Businesses in Lincolnshire. Julie Kaye from Springfield Mills in Denby Dale talks to Gemma, Tim and James about how retailers are coping and what they can do to make the most of the last few weeks of Christmas trading.
And celebrating 60 years of Coronation Street with former Corrie star and now MP Tracy Brabin.
PRODUCER: Louise Wheeler
STUDIO DIRECTOR: Elaine Peters
SOUND: Adam Campbell2020-12-0635 min
Bad People12. Ward Four: Can you spot Munchausen by Proxy?Hospitals are places of safety, where staff help people to get better. So the parents of four children left in the care of Beverley Allitt never imagined that she’d harm them. The 22 year old nurse was convicted of their murders and harming 9 others on Ward Four at the Grantham and Kesteven hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991. Police worked out that Allitt was the only person present for all of the unexplained collapses and that she had reported the key to the insulin fridge missing. Childhood friends and nurses she trained with later told of her se...2020-11-1937 min
Radio Moments - ClipsKeith Skues final BBC show - 202027th September 2020 saw Keith Skues hit the stab on Mr Tambourine Man for the final time, as his 500th show marked the end of his broadcasting career at the BBC, aged 81.
As he previewed some of the songs to come, he conceded that he might not fit them all in. Last shows can be like that.
Other choice moments included:
“Are you familiar with a gentleman called Tim Davie?”
“Keith: ‘Why should I be?”
His 60-year career included: the British Forces Network in Cologne; pirate radio on board Caroline and London; BBC...2020-09-2824 min
SundayWedding law review, ‘Celebration Earth’, the ‘Holy Blood of Hailes’The Law Commission is reviewing wedding law which it says “has failed to keep pace with modern life”. Prof Nicholas Hopkins of the Law Commission explains why the current law is problematic and what changes are being proposed. And given the significant ramifications of those changes for religious weddings, Ed Stourton discusses their potential impact with Rev Bruce Thompson, Chair of the Lincolnshire Methodist District, and the theologian and author, Rev Dr Ian Paul.Next week sees the launch of two international faith-based environmental programmes: a commitment by more than one hundred faith organisations to draw up long...2020-09-1344 min
Make a DifferenceRomance and ReunionsBecca Bryers guides you through surprising stories of communities across England pulling together during these uncertain times, drawn from across BBC Local Radio.This episode:- While on furlough, Nina has been volunteering at the Chelmsford care home where her dad Roger lives - and loving it
- Shropshire student Lauren has put her dream of being a midwife on hold, to work in her local care home
- James explains how the pandemic has impacted the quality time he can spend with his wife, Barbara - who lives in a Exeter care home
...2020-07-2927 minUnexpected ElementsThe impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee campsMassively over crowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has seen numbers grow from 5 to 20 thousand in a matter of months. Hundreds of people share taps and toilets, there is little chance to implement measures designed to stop the spread of covid 19. So far the camp has not been hit by the epidemic, but aid agencies fear for the most vulnerable in the camp. Covid 19 jumped from bats to humans, possibly via another wild animal. A study of zoonotic diseases has identified many other viruses that could do the same. The skies...2020-04-1253 minCrowdScienceHow can I reduce stress?Listener Keith from Lincolnshire wants to know how to reduce stress as he is under extreme pressure as a firefighter. Not only does he have to cope with the stress of responding to emergency situations but he has to do it while wearing challenging breathing equipment.We all experience times of stress, especially given the current situation, our chest starts to feel tight and our breathing becomes shallow. Claudia Hammond – presenter of BBC World Service programme Health Check – explains steps we can take to protect our mental health during this pandemic.How should we alter our...2020-04-1026 min
Politix and ChillEp10: Brexit. Farming. Gnomes.As Brexit approaches, Ben is joined by BBC Radio Kent's Yetunde Yusuf and BBC Radio Merseyside's Claire Hamilton to chat about how the different areas are preparing for entering the transition phase, whilst also championing their local ports.BBC Radio Oxford's Bethan Nimmo visits Oxford's first twin town in 23 years,Wroclaw in Poland.BBC Radio Shropshire's Joanne Gallacher asked the agriculture students how they're feeling about the prospect of leaving the EU and BBC Radio Lincolnshire's Alex Rhode locks a leaver and a remainer in an escape room to see if they could cooperate and...2020-01-3141 min
Radio Moments - ConversationsJohn Inverdale - Presenter and sport, BBC local, BBC Radio 4, 2, 5, 5 LiveHe was the local press journalist who went on to be one of BBC radio sport’s most familiar voices – and whose style was to define BBC Radio 5 live at launch.
In this hour of ‘Radio Moments Conversations’, John Inverdale tells of his early days in local press before a chance pub meeting led to an opportunity at the new BBC Radio Lincolnshire. An attachment to London saw him reporting and sports bulletin-reading on the Radio 4 Today programme and then across to BBC Radio 2 to host Sport on 2. As BBC Radio 5 launched, he was to host the evening Drive-In...2019-12-2059 min
Composer of the WeekPercy GraingerDonald Macleod surveys the life, music and quirks of Australian composer, Percy GraingerDonald Macleod begins this week episode about Percy Grainger by tracing the composer's ambivalent relationship with his primary musical instrument, the piano, and the ever-present influence of his mother. He then follows Grainger to London, where his composing took second place to performing, leading to concert tours of Scandinavia, South Africa, New Zealand and back home to Australia. We’ll also hear about his enthusiastic and sometimes controversial role in the folksong revival of the 1900s, away from starchy drawing rooms and concert halls. Do...2019-12-131h 11Open CountryWitham Navigable DrainsSome people dream of canoeing up the Zambezi, or exploring Venice by gondola, but Ian Marchant has always dreamed of the world's least romantic waterway: the Witham Navigable Drains, near Boston in Lincolnshire. And there is romance and beauty here. And grand sluices, mighty pumps and a box or two of maggots.Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery2019-11-2824 min
Politix and ChillElection Politix and Chill 02: Futility. Democracy. Marshmallows.Ben is joined by Sharon Edwards from BBC Radio Lincolnshire and Charlotte Rose from BBC Essex discuss election manifesto numberwang and play a drinking game with a difference. Ben explores different forms of democracy with help from the unknowable Chris Mason. Caire Hamilton from BBC Radio Merseyside and Bob Cooper from BBC Radio Cumbria look at the futility that some people feel when deciding whether their vote will make a difference.2019-11-2250 min
Multi StoryRelationship StatusReflections on what it means to be in a relationship, or single. Featuring Charlie, Nick and Sydney sharing the emotions and logistics of their polyamorous romance. Plus, nuns Sisters Anne-Marie, Aelred and Gabriel explain why they don't fully consider themselves to be single. And childhood friends, David and Christine on the joy of finding love later in life.Presented and produced by Becca BryersWith contributions from:
Letitia George at BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
Emily Jeffery at BBC Radio Sussex
Melvyn Prior at BBC Radio Lincolnshire2019-10-2339 min
Saturday ReviewGlass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp, The Last Tree, The Dutch House, Mark Leckey, World on FireCaryl Churchill celebrated her 80th birthday last year. She's written four new short plays for the Royal Court, the theatre with which she's most closely associated: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. Horror and abuse flash through often very funny scenes played by a cast including Toby Jones and Deborah Findley. Shola Amoo's praised second feature The Last Tree is an account of a boy of Nigerian heritage who grows up in foster care in rural Lincolnshire and then goes to live with his mother in South London. It draws on some of his personal experience. Ann...2019-09-2848 min
Any Questions? and Any Answers?AQ: Ken Clarke, Julie Bindel, Dan Carden, Seb PayneShaun Ley presents political debate from Hale Magna Village Hall in Lincolnshire2019-07-0647 min
Arts & IdeasCindy Sherman, Laura CummingThe art of Cindy Sherman; art critic Laura Cumming on finding out the history behind the days her mother disappeared as a child on a Lincolnshire beach, New Generation Thinker Susan Greaney on local history museums. Naomi Paxton presents and joining her to talk about Cindy Sherman are Laura Cumming, the actor Adjoa Andoh, photographer Juno Calypso and New Generation Thinker Joe Moshenska from the University of Oxford. Laura Cumming's memoir is called On Chapel Sands and it is being read as the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006...2019-06-2645 min
Must WatchRob Lowe on Wild Bill and The West Wing rebootRob Lowe joins Nihal to talk about Lincolnshire cop drama, Wild Bill on ITV – and rumours of a reboot of The West Wing.2019-06-1225 minMust WatchWild Bill | 63 Up | Tales of the City | Plus Edward Bluemel from Killing EveCritics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake to share their reviews of Wild Bill – a cop drama set in Lincolnshire and starring Rob Lowe, which none of us can quite believe... plus 63 Up, the documentary series that returns to the same cast every seven years to catch up with them…and Tales of the City is back – though we weren’t aware it had actually gone anywhere.Plus, Edward Bluemel talks about joining Killing Eve for series 2. He plays Hugo and is super lovely. And Scott is a massive fan. Also on this ep...2019-06-101h 05Saturday ReviewGloria Bell, Wife at The Kiln Theatre, Frank Bowling, Brian Bilston, Wild BillChilean director Sebastián Lelio's 2013 film Gloria has been remade for an English-speaking audience as Gloria Bell. Starring Julianne Moore it's extremely faithful to the original; what's new about it?
Wife is the latest play by Samuel Adamson which has just opened at The Kiln in London. Drawing on many influences including Ibsen's A Doll's House, it explores many decades of gay history
Guyana-born artist Frank Bowling OBE has lived in then UK since he was a teenager and been a painter almost as long. Now at the age of 85, Tate Britain is staging a retrospective exhibition of his a...2019-06-0851 minAny Questions? and Any Answers?AQ: Gerard Batten MEP, Baroness Sal Brinton, Nicky Morgan MP, Emily Thornberry MPJonathan Dimbleby presents topical debate from Stamford Methodist Church in Lincolnshire2019-04-1347 min
Inside HealthCBD oil, Dental phobia, GoutCannabidiol or CBD oil has had a recent surge in popularity but is there any evidence for it having any health benefits? Dr Margaret McCartney reviews the research. Mark visits the Dental psychology service at Guy's Hospital in London and talks to Tim Newton about dental phobia, the treatment available and how successful it is at treating a phobia which affects 1 in 10 people in the UK. Also what causes gout and why has advice changed on the best way to treat it? Mark talks to rheumatologist, Dr Tim Tait at United Lincolnshire hospitals.2019-03-1228 min
The Media ShowThe Cairncross ConundrumDemand for news is higher than ever but fewer people are prepared to pay for it. The government asked former journalist Dame Frances Cairncross to conduct a review into the sustainability of high-quality journalism.Amol Rajan is joined by Dame Frances Cairncross, Wolfgang Blau, president of Condé Nast International, Professor Jane Martinson, Daniel Ionescu, managing editor of The Lincolnite and Lincolnshire Reporter, and Paul Staines, publisher of Guido Fawkes.Presenter: Amol Rajan
Producer: Richard Hooper2019-02-1328 min
The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast044 Live on BBC Radio LincolnshireKitchen Garden magazine was recently voted Britain’s best gardening publication 2018 by the Garden Media Guild at gardening’s version of The Oscars, held annually at The Savoy Hotel in London. To mark the occasion roving reporter Hope Bolger of BBC Radio Lincolnshire visited KG HQ in Horncastle for a quick chat over the airwaves with editor Steve Ott to find out more about the publication, why the judges awarded KG this great accolade and why one of the magazine’s newest writers, fruit expert David Patch, was also judged to be Britain’s best by his peers. Hosted on Acast...2018-12-1104 minMulti StoryEpisode 1: SwallowsThis week: childhood homes. Featuring a Lincolnshire farmer's first train ride, an unexpected house move from busy Bristol to rural roots, and a Leicestershire man facing saying goodbye to the family home he can't afford.Presented and produced by Becca Bryers.With contributions from:
William Wright at BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Laura Rawlings at BBC Radio Bristol2018-10-1033 minOpen CountryInspired by flowers, LincolnshireLincolnshire is famous for vast fields of tulips, but this week Helen Mark meets people in the country who have a more personal relationship with flowers, including a family whose snowdrop wood is the location for a naming ceremony for their daughter, conducted by a Druid named Kevin. Helen contemplates the fading of memories with a Greek artist and choreographer, resident in Lincoln, who makes photographs using flower emulsions. There's a beekeeper who trains new recruits and packs her garden with as many flowers as she can to provide the bees with sustenance; a former IT manager turned English...2018-04-2624 min
5 Live InvestigatesBetting ShopsThe betting industry watchdog the Gambling Commission has launched an inquiry into a self-exclusion scheme designed to help problem gamblers. It follows an undercover investigation by 5 live Investigates. The programme's reporter signed up to the Multi-Operator Self-Exclusion Scheme (MOSES) and got himself barred from 21 betting shops in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He submitted his details and a photograph of himself to the scheme which were then distributed to the 21 shops he asked to be excluded from. Ten days later, he then visited them all and attempted to play on fixed odds betting terminals which he did without being challenged in 19 of...2017-12-1750 min
Ben PradaBBC Music introducing Ben Prada Full interviewHere is an interview with DJ Presenters, Hayley and Chris also a short mix with BBC Introducing i have recently had at the BBC Radio Lincolnshire studio
Tracklist
1: Golden Fizz
2: Heartbeat featuring @Ivanoliverofficial
3: Turn on the light
4: Lets Go
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05l55bs2017-11-2024 minOpen CountryLincolnshire Bike NightLeathers, green beard, a Harley and pension: guest presenter Paul Murphy meets some of the people behind the longest running bike night in the UK. Lincolnshire's roads are long, straight (Roman) and quiet, perfect for motorbikes. Every week between March and October, about a thousand of them ride out in the county for a pub supper and a cup of tea. It's a sight you don't easily forget.Graham Sugdon started Lincolnshire Bike Nights in 1989 when his hair and beard were long and black. He's a third generation biker and hopes he'll be riding into...2017-07-2723 min
Saturday LiveHenry "Blowers" Blofeld, Tom Chaplin, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Jess WalkupAasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles chat with cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld, Keane singer Tom Chaplin on his solo career, comedian Kiri Pritchard-Mclean & British Antarctic winter base commander Jess Walkup. We also hear interior designer Nicky Haslam's inheritance tracks and from the World Egg Throwing Championships in Lincolnshire.Producer: Paul Waters
Presenters: Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles.2017-07-011h 24
Making HistoryThe Dunkirk SpiritTom Holland is joined by Dr Dan Todman from Queen Mary University, London and Professor Lucy Robinson at the University of Sussex.Britain's retreat from Dunkirk in 1940 was a precursor to the fall of France and a summer in which it looked like Britain too would be be overwhelmed by the Nazi war machine. The evacuation of thousands of troops from the beaches of Northern France in an armada of boats of all shapes and sizes has been spun into a defining moment when the plucky Brits snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. But Dunkirk was...2017-06-2727 minMaking HistoryThe Stonehenge TunnelTom Holland goes behind the headlines to look at the stories making history.Helen Castor travels to Salisbury Plain to hear more about a growing row between archaeologists and our leading heritage organisations about plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge. She discovers how, increasingly, it isn't iconic Stonehenge that is at the centre of researchers' thinking but the wider and even more historic landscape. In Lincolnshire, Carenza Lewis and a team from the University of Lincoln are using archaeology for what some might describe as more pressing questions - how we can tackle the...2017-06-2027 minThe Food ProgrammeWomen & BeerThink beer. Think boys with beards? Think again. The last time Sheila Dillon reported on the women in British beer, in 2013, she met Sara Barton head brewer at Brewster's brewery in Lincolnshire. At the time Sara was the only woman head brewer in the country and women were drinking only a tenth of all the beer sold in the UK. Today that figure has nearly tripled, Sara has become the first woman to be named 'Brewer of the Year' by the Guild of Beer Writers, and women all around the UK are turning to jobs in brewing.2017-06-1128 min
The Listening ServiceWho Wrote the First Folk Song?Who wrote the first folk song? It's an age old question, these tunes that everyone knows which have been passed down from generation to generation... Where do they come from?
Enlisting the help of ethnomusicologist and folk singer Dr Fay Hield and folklore expert Steve Roud, Tom Service embarks on a quest to the very origins of music. It's a journey that takes him back in time from modern-day folk clubs to the origins of the species (via rural Lincolnshire in the early 20th century).2017-04-2428 min
World Update: Daily CommuteBrexit Watch: Article 50 TriggeredIn this special edition of Brexit Watch, Dan goes to 'Brexit Central' - Boston in Lincolnshire - on the day the UK officially starts its departure from the EU.(IMAGE: The Prime Minster Of the United Kingdom Theresa May Signs Article 50 - Christopher Furlong - WPA Pool/Getty Images)2017-03-2918 min
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Out on 27th January worldwide.2017-01-2705 minOpen CountryBarton-upon-Humber Clay PitsHelen Mark finds out about the flooded clay pits that make up the landscape around Barton-upon-Humber. Standing on the south side of the Humber Bridge, the pits look like a series of holes punched into the landscape, or a piece of lace attached all the way along the Humber bank. The pits were excavated for the fine clay they contain, to make beautiful red bricks to build local houses that are still so typical here, and tiles which were packed into barges and taken off to London to feed the housing boom of the nineteenth century.2017-01-1223 minMaking History20/09/2016Helen Castor is joined by Professor Mark Bailey from the University of East Anglia and Dr Eloise Moss from the University of Manchester to discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.Tom Holland is in Lincolnshire where Professor Carenza Lewis explains why pottery is telling us so much more about the Black Death. Her new research, working with volunteers across East Anglia, shows the pan-European epidemic of the mid-fourteenth century had an 'eye-watering impact' with communities losing up to 70% of their population.Dr Bob Nicholson and former newspaper editor Roy Greenslade leaf through the pages...2016-10-0327 min
MidweekLiz Pichon, Melvyn Tan, Dan Richards, Meera SodhaLibby Purves meets illustrator and author Liz Pichon; pianist Melvyn Tan; travel writer Dan Richards and food writer Meera Sodha.Dan Richards is a travel writer. In his book Climbing Days, he is on the trail of his great-great aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. Using Dorothy's 1935 memoir Climbing Days as a guide, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, ending up at the serrate pinnacle of his aunt's climbing life, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais. Climbing Days is published by Faber. Meera Sodha...2016-06-2923 minOpen CountryTennyson's LincolnshireHelen Mark explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the poetry of Victorian Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.The Lincolnshire Wolds are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, remote and in some ways little-changed since Tennyson was born here, in the village of Somersby, in 1809.Helen meets dialect speakers, like Tennyson, whose 'first language was Lincolnshire'. She'll find out how he might have described the landscape and how it appears in some of his dialect poems. She meets some rare farm animals that would have been familiar to him and visits a rookery he describes in his...2016-05-0524 minOpen CountryGainsborough's Nodding DonkeysForget Texas! There's oil in the plains of Lincolnshire. But not many people seem to notice.Helen Mark travels to the market town of Gainsborough to discover more about the nodding donkeys that pepper its landscape. Oil wells sit comfortably fringed by a housing estate, the leisure centre and the golf course.It turns out that the East Midlands is the UK's second largest inshore oil producing area, courtesy of the Gainsborough Trough, once a deep and dirty patch of sea. Now it produces twelve hundred barrels of high quality oil a day, mostly pumped...2016-04-1323 minOpen CountryLincolnshire Coast RevivalOn the 5th of December 2013 the Lincolnshire community saw the worst flooding in 60 years. A tidal surge two metres above normal levels flooded coastal nature reserves and Gibraltar Point visitor centre was severely damaged. Two years on and Helen Mark finds a remarkable transformation taking place here and along the coastline with a series of iconic buildings and art installations including a new marine observatory, a cloud watching bar and a new visitor centre built on stilts to protect it from future floods.
The impact on wildlife and habitat is still being assessed, local farmers have lost productive land...2015-12-1024 minSaturday LiveSally PhillipsWriter and actress Sally Phillips first appeared regularly on our screens in female comedy series Smack the Pony. Roles in Alan Partridge and Bridget Jones soon followed and since then she's carved out a niche as one of the UK's top comedy actors - appearing in Rescue Me, Parents, Skins and Jam and Jerusalem in the UK and Green Wing, Veep and Parents across the pond. On Radio 4 she's Claire in the Community, she's popularised the phrase "bear with..." as posh girl Tilly in TV sitcom Miranda and wrote film The Decoy Bride starring David Tennant. She joins us...2015-07-041h 24Saturday LiveZandra RhodesDame Zandra Rhodes is one of Britain's best-known fashion designers, putting London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s. Her extensive list of clients has included Princess Diana and Freddie Mercury. Rhodes now lives with her partner, the 94 year old film producer Salah Hassanein and former head of Warner Bros. In 2003 Zandra founded The Fashion and Textile Museum, the only museum in the UK solely dedicated to showcasing developments in contemporary fashion, as well as providing inspiration, support and training for those working in the industry. Since 2000 Zandra's career has diversified into designing sets and...2015-04-111h 24
World War OneWW1 At Home 12 - The Football Icon and The War PoetThe football coach and Derby County football icon stranded in Berlin during World War One and the war poet who wrote in his native Lincolnshire dialect.2014-06-1719 min
BBC Inside ScienceLongitude Prize 2014; Dementia; Matter from light; Coastal depositionLongitude Prize 2014
The Longitude Prize offers a £10 million prize pot to help find the solution to one of the greatest issues of our age. Votes from the British public will decide what that issue will be. This week, the six shortlisted challenges have been unveiled. They cover flight, food, antibiotics, paralysis, water and dementia. Alice Roberts talks to Adam about why we need an X-factor for science. Over the next month, Inside Science will profile each of these challenges and explain how you can cast your vote.Matter from Light
In 12 months' time, researchers say they will b...2014-05-2228 min
Feedback14/03/2014Is anyone at the BBC listening? This week we'll be talking to John Humphrys about whether liberal bias at the BBC has put it out of step with public opinion, and whether anything is changing. And there's a tale of sabotage and sacrilege in a Lincolnshire abbey.In an interview with this week's Radio Times, John Humphrys admitted the BBC had, in the past, been wrong in its coverage of immigration and Europe. "We weren't sufficiently sceptical - that's the most accurate phrase - of the pro-European case. We bought into the European ideal". And he went...2014-03-1427 min
Tweet of the DayAvocetTweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.Chris Packham presents the avocet. With its black and white plumage, blue-grey legs and delicate upturned bill, the avocet is one of our easiest birds to identify. They are a conservation success and are now breeding in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Kent and elsewhere.2014-02-0601 minOpen CountryLincolnshire Aviation HeritageHelen Mark explores the aviation heritage of Lincolnshire, a county criss-crossed with former airfields, and finds out how they are being used today. She visits Woodhall Spa's airfield, once home to the Dambusters squadron and until recently, a sand and gravel quarry. Bordered by nature reserves, the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust aim to buy the airfield and return it to the heathland it once was, as described by local Victorian naturalist, Joseph Burdett-Davey. Evidence of its past remains in the form of concrete and tarmac runways, lakes which were formed by sand excavation and more surprisingly, alien plants...2014-01-2323 minThe Food ProgrammeFish & ChipsSheila Dillon explores a renaissance in the great British fish and chip shop, with the help of food blogger Daniel Young.At Upton Chippy near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, not much has changed since the first fry there in 1948. The fish comes fresh from Grimsby market, the potatoes from a local farmer. The batter recipe is the same (and yes, it's a secret) and it's all cooked in beef dripping on a coal-fired range, one of the last in the UK. Not many fish and chip shops have kept the faith like owner Sally Shaw and her loyal...2014-01-0327 minOpen CountryDoddington Hall, LincolnshireHelen Mark visits Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire to talk about how the estate's shoot forms part of the landscape management and a desire for locally-sourced produce. It also provides the farm shop and restaurant with festive fare, including pigeon burgers.James Birch is Doddington's owner, (his wife's family have owned the estate continuously for around four hundred years). Shooting has always been part of life here and even now there's a full-time gamekeeper, who doubles as security guard and fly-tipping preventer.The game from the shoot is used in the restaurant and is cooked by...2013-12-2624 minThe Media ShowTV exports to China; macho news desks; Gary Barlow on Radio 2; UGC local paperAs David Cameron concludes a trip to China in which the country's love of Downton Abbey has become clear, we discuss the opportunities for exporting British TV programmes. Eleanor Mills, editorial director of The Sunday Times, and new Chair of Women in Journalism, on the action that's needed to tackle what she believes is a macho culture on the news desks of some national newspapers.Why the commercial radio sector will be listening carefully to BBC Radio 2 next week as it features Gary Barlow during the day, before a concert in the evening....2013-12-0428 minThe Media ShowLocal TV, Welsh broadcasting, Crowd-funded journalismThe first of a new network of up to 30 local TV stations proposed by the government in areas including Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London, launched this week in Grimsby. Estuary TV will be available to 350,000 homes in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. It's hoped other services will open over the next year. Steve Hewlett asks Lia Nici, Executive Producer at Estuary TV, about what's on offer and questions the Chair of the Local TV Network Nigel Dacre on whether the stations present viable business opportunities.Also in the programme, Ian Jones, the Chief Executive of the welsh...2013-11-2728 minMidweekRita Moreno, Dan Burt, John Wilson, Holly Mumby-CroftLibby Purves meets conductor John Wilson; lawyer and poet Dan Burt; actor Rita Moreno and Holly Mumby-Croft, mayor of Broughton in Lincolnshire.Conductor and arranger John Wilson formed the John Wilson Orchestra in 1994. The orchestra specialises in authentic performances of classic Hollywood film musical scores including High Society, An American in Paris and Easter Parade. John painstakingly restored many of the original MGM scores which had been lost years before. The John Wilson Orchestra celebrates the golden age of Hollywood in a UK tour.Dan Burt is a businessman, lawyer and published poet. Born into...2013-10-3042 min
ProfileSamantha CameronEdward Stourton profiles Samantha Cameron. There's been debate this week about the degree to which her views influence government policy. But what do we actually know about the Prime Minister's wife?The daughter of a baronet with a family estate in Lincolnshire, Samantha Cameron was born Samantha Sheffield. She grew up in Oxfordshire but moved to Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where she took her A' Levels before studying Art at Camberwell College and Bristol Polytechnic.She met David Cameron through his sister - a close schoolfriend - and they married the same year that she...2013-07-2014 min
Witness History: World War Two historyDambustersIn 1943, the Royal Air Force attacked a set of dams in Germany's Ruhr valley which were considered indestructible. Flying low and at night, the crews used special bouncing bombs to bring down two of their targets. The Dambusters mission was a huge propaganda success for Britain and later inspired a famous film.Simon Watts talks to Johnny Johnson, one of the few survivors of the raid.PHOTO: Johnny Johnson (far left) with the rest of 617 squadron (DAMBUSTERS) at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 JULY 1943 (Imperial War Museum).2013-05-1709 min
Witness History: Archive 2013DambustersIn 1943, the Royal Air Force attacked a set of dams in Germany's Ruhr valley which were considered indestructible. Flying low and at night, the crews used special bouncing bombs to bring down two of their targets. The Dambusters mission was a huge propaganda success for Britain and later inspired a famous film.Simon Watts talks to Johnny Johnson, one of the few survivors of the raid.PHOTO: Johnny Johnson (far left) with the rest of 617 squadron (DAMBUSTERS) at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 JULY 1943 (Imperial War Museum).2013-05-1709 min
Front Row: Archive 2013My Mad Fat Diary; cellist Matthew BarleyWith Kirsty Lang.
A Mormon community in Lancashire provides the setting for The Friday Gospels, a novel by Betty Trask Prize-winner Jenn Ashworth. She was raised as a Mormon until she was a teenager, and she reflects on why she wanted to write about her experience as a British Mormon, when most literature focuses on American Mormon communities.
My Mad Fat Diary is a new TV comedy drama series, based on the real life journals of Rae Earl, who recorded her teenage life in Lincolnshire. Stand-up comic Sharon Rooney stars as an overweight 16 year-old, recently released from a psychiatric...2013-01-1128 min
Lives in a LandscapeBoston's Migrant WorkersAlan Dein goes to Boston, Lincolnshire to explore the simmering tensions caused by a large influx of migrant workers from Eastern Europe.
On arriving in this traditional market town dominated by its vast church known locally as the Stump, Alan hears rumours of escalating crime, homelessness and enforced repatriations. Migration is without doubt the number one issue here - the population of this market town has swollen dramatically since the expansion of the EU, with workers drawn by the ready supply of agricultural work.
Alan talks to Bostonians and migrant workers alike. He witnesses for himself the troubles in the...2011-11-0427 min
RamblingsLincolnshire - The WoldsIn the fifth of this series of listener's walks, Clare Blading sets out three people who live in Lincolnshire and share a passion for the Wolds. Listener, Mike Garrs, invited Clare to join him in the landscape that he loves and where he walks regularly with friends. They are joined by Pete Skipworth, who has traced his ancestry in the Lincolnshire Wolds back to the fourteenth century and who has also been walking the area for 30 years, and Louise Niekirk from the Lincolnshire Countryside Service which organises the annual Lincolnshire Walking Festival.
In a walk which begins in the...2011-10-1524 minThe Media Show29/09/2010Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State at the DCMS, has made the encouragement of local TV a flagship policy and has now given more details of how this might work. Steve gets reaction from Barry Clack of Witney TV, which was highlighted in Jeremy Hunt's speech yesterday and from Helen Philpot who runs Lincolnshire's Channel Seven and who has been talking to government advisers. Mark Oliver of analysts Oliver and Ohlbaum gives his view on the likelihood of the plans succeeding.Both Virgin and Sky are launching 3D channels this week. Matthew Horsman of Mediatique joins Steve...2010-09-2928 min
Between the EarsThe Haunted MoustacheMusician David Bramwell delves into the world of Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and mind altering states in the search for the story behind an inherited moustache. "In the early summer of 1991 I inherited a moustache from my Great Aunt Sylvia. She made it to the over-ripe age of 96 before sailing out of this world, fag in hand, leaving behind an unfinished jigsaw of the Eiffel Tower and a forlorn cat..."Obsessed with finding out the identity of the moustache's owner - an unlikely inheritance from his Great Aunt Sylvia - musician David Bramwell sets off on...2010-03-2828 min
In Our Time: HistoryThe Pilgrim FathersMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pilgrim Fathers and their 1620 voyage to the New World on the Mayflower. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans go home to their families and sit down to a meal. It’s called Thanksgiving and it echoes a meal that took place nearly 400 years ago, when a group of religious exiles from Lincolnshire sat down, after a brutal winter, to celebrate their first harvest in the New World. They celebrated it in company with the American Indians who had helped them to survive.These settlers are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They were no...2007-07-0542 min
In Our Time: ReligionThe Pilgrim FathersMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pilgrim Fathers and their 1620 voyage to the New World on the Mayflower. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans go home to their families and sit down to a meal. It’s called Thanksgiving and it echoes a meal that took place nearly 400 years ago, when a group of religious exiles from Lincolnshire sat down, after a brutal winter, to celebrate their first harvest in the New World. They celebrated it in company with the American Indians who had helped them to survive.These settlers are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They we...2007-07-0542 min