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Most featureless place in Britain

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How do you decide what is the most featureless place? The Cambridge dictionary defines featureless as ‘looking the same in every part, usually in...
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Geography

The Quietest Place in England

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If you were asked where the quietest place in Britain was, what would be your answer? You might say it all depends. Where there is...
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Place Names

Shippea Hill

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What does Shippea Hill, a remote railway station in Cambridgeshire, have in common with Shinjuku railway station in Tokyo, Japan? It’s all a question of...
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Heroes

Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown

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No one ever had to say ‘he’s gone for a Burton’, but how test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown survived 50 years of flying is remarkable....
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Geography

Extremes of Britain – The Furthest North

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What are the furthest points north, south, east and west in Britain? Are they worth a visit? How easy are they to get to?...
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Military History

The Coriolis Effect

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You may have heard that water flowing down the plug hole in a sink or bath always swirls anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and clockwise in the...
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Family History

What’s on tonight?

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On 1 September 1939, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey’s Gala Premier, was the last television programme to be broadcast by the BBC before the service...
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Film

The Strange World of Planet X

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The BBC screened adaptations of the 1920 play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek in 1938 & 1948. The word ‘robot’ was originally coined in this...
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Geography

The Oldest of the Oldest Rocks in Britain

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There was a news item on the BBC website a few days ago that tiny crystals of zircon, a blue semi-precious stone, that had been found in...
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Geography

The Centre of Great Britain

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If someone asked you where the centre of Great Britain was or for that matter where the centre of England was, would you know? Or more...
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Business

Fry’s Five Boys

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Fry’s Five Boys was a solid milk chocolate bar that was once the most recognised chocolate bar in the world. It was still being sold...
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People

Who Didn’t Appear in Z-Cars

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Back in 1962, Dixon of Dock Green had been a regular staple police programme on Saturday night television for nine years. In it PC George Dixon,...
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Eminem – Stronger Than I Was

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We woke reasonably late following the feast and free flowing wine the night before. After gathering ourselves and our packs, we...
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Dj Dark – Chill Vibes

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We woke reasonably late following the feast and free flowing wine the night before. After gathering ourselves and our packs, we...
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Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (Dj Dark & Adrian Funk Remix)

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We woke reasonably late following the feast and free flowing wine the night before. After gathering ourselves and our packs, we...
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Silicon Valley Guru Affected by the Fulminant Slashed Investments

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We woke reasonably late following the feast and free flowing wine the night before. After gathering ourselves and our packs, we...
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