Name: Malmesbury by these weird isles
Duration: 6 min 15 s
Description: 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.

(The Man Who Invented) Plasticine

George Orwell on Jura writing 1984, smoking roll ups and trying to shake off tuberculosis.

Jura

The Black Flag

These Weird Isles - the second of two podcasts in which I explore Japan - islands as weird as the UK . I discover a space at the centre of the Japanese belief system and reflect on how the Japanese must perceive the British.

Kyoto

Suffolk is a county of clouds, and on the coast, in a holiday chalet in Kessingland, we struggle to remember codes, and are not easily calmed by the decor. 

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Kessingland

Bram Stoker passes through a whalebone arch into a time shift, buys an ice cream from a van owned by Stranglers' drummer Jet Black. Sir Henry Irving morphs into Christopher Lee. Monkey Puzzle Trees do something even more astonishing.

Whitby

British Autumn

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

Kinder Scout

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.)

The Pub

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.

Malmesbury

With grim predictability, overdone rocket propellant coffee; as if spasmodic Jacob's Ladder hallucinations are attempting to usurp my body.

@dandouglas's tweets are wordy, complex things. You're never sure where you'll end up. Rather than do something equally complex, I went for a simple drum/bass pattern and plenty of acoustic guitar and vocals. I did it very quickly, and have no idea what it is, or whether it's any good.



Jacob's Ladder

Psychic Investigations:
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Malmesbury

these weird isles

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