While the rest of Radio 4 obsesses about women’s illness, world events and consumer affairs, the cricket It has the sort of velvet texture that could be produced by a mouthful of port and Stilton – and there Bill Frindall, ‘Bearders’ as he’s sometimes known, had yet more books - some open, some shut. But Bill has been here longer – he started in 1966. Why do I go on about pigeons? Bill Frindall remembers the day he met the great man. “He said: ‘I hear you like driving.

How things have changed since the people of Truro used to turn out en-masse in plum season to walk miles

The Mystery of the Flammable Rocks at Kilve Pill Beach There are two clues that show just how close a is the forlorn brick building topped by an iron chimney which stands just behind the shore at Kilve Pill Oil experts were looking at an area seven miles long, extending one to two miles inland from the coast

At the time of writing this article the Exmoor Food Festival is preparing its annual month-long bout in his veins, also pickles the shellfish in a light solution which renders them a truly sensational mouthful the idea of local businessman Will Rayner who first tasted cooked oysters at the Hesp household 18-months

Beautiful, yes - but nowhere near as filled with tourists. excellent Foreigners’ Club which boasts endless panoramas of the Bay of Naples and the best gin-and-tonics south really is the terminus - you can’t go any further - but you can hike to the top of the church-crowned hill fabulous food and wine, great charm and some secret corners that still remain available only to those willing

Other experts include Susy Atkins, who works with the South West Wine School and well known South Hams “Roll this forward 12 months and hopefully we are through the pandemic - and there’s still a huge opportunity Or a Sunday afternoon bake-along during the winter months…  “There are tons of different angles that

There followed a few miles of road walking into Glenfinnan, but this wasn’t too bad. National Trust iced walnut cake and raspberry tea seemed a hundred miles from the cold wet world we'd Loch Shiel, a freshwater loch, is about fifteen miles long, and only about 15’ (4m) above sea level. These were to have been my hills of tomorrow if the weather hadn’t been so bad. A couple of miles down the glen, where it starts to get more wooded I found a grassy patch beside the

continued wending their way out across the dangerous expanse of mud to the shingle banks more than a mile But it was still breathing and it's gills going in and out and we were too scared.” The flash goes off and you can look for miles and all of a sudden it’s pitch black.

It’s a great pub and I’d heartily recommend anyone to visit if they’re down in South Cornwall .

And landscapes don’t get much more beautiful than the Great Glen - the massive 70-mile long rift-valley in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford, and runs through more than 60 miles

Palamidi Fortress, high on the hill, remains a key symbol of the town, offering a physical reminder of

experience the unhurried charm of Scandinavian coastal life, the region of Kystlandet ('Coastal Land') south