Christopher Winn’s I Never Knew That
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Christopher Winn’s I Never Knew That
Join me and my special guests in this new podcast series as we travel to all four corners of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland discovering entertaining stories and fascinating facts, hearing epic tales and intimate recollections, seeing where history happened, marvelling at sweeping panoramas and...
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The London Show
In this special show we discuss London and Christmas: With Christopher Winn, author of I Never Knew That about London, Mark Mason, author of Walk the...
Episode 13: Scotland
In this episode Christopher explores the beginnings of Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, travels south into Lanarkshire to experience the world’s long...
Episode 12 : Southern Scotland Part II
In this episode Christopher visits more of Southern Scotland taking in a pink palace that was once the only place in the world where you could see a R...
Episode 11 : Southern Scotland
In this episode Christopher visits Southern Scotland, travelling first along the River Tweed in the Border country, taking in the baronial home of Sco...
Episode 10 : London
In this episode, Christopher explores London taking in the capital’s first - and best - man made viewpoint, the room where a shy 18 year old girl beca...
Episode 9 : The East of England
In this episode Christopher visits the Lincolnshire Wolds of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the most beautiful building in the world in Cambridgeshire, an Engl...
Special Episode : St George's Day
In this special episode Christopher tells the story of how St George came to be the patron saint of England, and visits some of the places in England...
Episode 8: Yorkshire
In this episode Christopher visits the northern capital of the Roman empire, the scene of the naval battle that secured American independence, the vil...
Episode 7 : The North
In this episode Christopher visits the only mainland community in Britain to be cut off by the daily tides, in Lancashire, a lakeland castle where all...
Episode 6 : The North Midlands
In this episode Christopher discovers the world’s first skyscraper in Shropshire, walks beside a lake dedicated to love in Staffordshire, follows in t...
Episode 5 : The West Midlands
Christopher explores the West Midlands taking in a ride on the world’s first bicycle in Warwickshire, three Cotswold villages in Gloucestershire with...
Episode 4 : The East Midlands
Christopher visits a quiet corner of Bedfordshire where the Celestial Light shines most brightly, the oldest house in England, in Huntingdonshire, the...
Episode 3 : The South Midlands
Christopher visits the birthplace of English song in Berkshire, Heaven on Earth in Oxfordshire, a country churchyard in Buckinghamshire where we have...
Episode 2 : The West Country
Christopher visits a handsome village in Dorset resting place of a farmer whose enterprise, and whose wife, helped save millions of lives, the Devon l...
Episode 1 : The South of England
Christopher visits a mountain side house in Surrey where larks ascend, a desert in Kent where a famous film director lived out his final days, a beaut...
Christmas Special
In this feature length Christmas special Christopher goes in search of the Great British Christmas, discovering magical Christmas stories and fascinat...