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Hadrian’s Wall vs. the Camino: Two Long-Distance Walkers Compare Notes with SplashMaps

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Jonathan does something different this week. Having finally walked the Hadrian's Wall Path coast to coast earlier this year, he sits down with David Overton of Splash Maps — who…
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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November – A History of The Gunpowder Plot for Americans with Historian Rebecca Rideal

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Remember, remember the fifth of November — and then try explaining to an American why a country celebrates a failed act of terrorism with fireworks and toffee apples. Historian Rebecca…
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What’s On in London in November 2026 – Bonfires, New Museum, Christmas Lights, and Autumn Joy

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November might be the most underrated month in London's calendar, and this year it has the biggest museum opening in years. The London Museum opens at Smithfield on 28 November…
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All the Queen’s Men: Elizabeth I and Courtship as Foreign Policy With Historian Sophie Shorland

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Historian Sophie Shorland returns to the podcast — last time for The Lost Queen, her book on Catherine of Braganza, the forgotten queen who helped bring tea to Britain…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 6: The King of Bath – Beau Nash – The Man Who Talked an Entire City Into Existence

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This is part of a special Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.
It is one of Jonathan's favorite kinds of story: the man who talks an entire…
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I Walked Hadrian’s Wall Coast to Coast — Here’s What It Was Actually Like – Blisters, Meat Pies & Beautiful Countryside

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Jonathan is finally ready to talk about it. After fifteen years of wanting to, a year of preparation and nine days of walking, he completed the Hadrian's Wall Path National…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 5: America’s Love Affair with Jane Austen — One of Literature’s Strangest Romances

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This is Episode 5 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.

It is, when you stop to think about it, one of the strangest…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 4: The People Who Made Jane Austen — The Crowded World Behind Six Perfect Novels

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This is Episode 4 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.

We tend to imagine great writers alone — a solitary genius at a…
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What’s On in London in October 2026 — New Exhibitions, Half Term & What to Pack

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Tomorrow is October 1st, which means it's time for the monthly What's On in London — and October might be Jonathan's single favorite month to be in the city. The…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 3: Jane Austen’s England on Screen – A Location-by-Location Visitor’s Guide

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This is Episode 3 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.

When we picture Jane Austen's world, most of us aren't actually picturing Hampshire…
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The Real Miss Moneypenny: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence With Dr. Claire Hubbard-Hall

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If I say "British spy," you picture a man: James Bond, George Smiley, Kim Philby. And the one woman most people can name from that world is fictional — Miss…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 2: What Jane Austen Actually Saw – The Real Georgian Bath with Dr. Moira Rudolf

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This is Episode 2 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen.

Today's episode has duels fought over a runaway marriage. It has a scandal…
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The Impossible Journey: The Man Who Visited Every Country on Earth Without Ever Setting Foot on a Plane

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In October 2013, a young Dane named Thor Pedersen set off from his home with a single, slightly mad rule: he wanted to visit every country on earth — all…
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Strictly Jane Austen Episode 1: The Regency Explained — Robert Morrison on the Most Consequential Nine Years in British History

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This is Episode 1 of a special six-part Jane Austen series, sponsored throughout by Strictly Jane Austen — Bath's most Austentatious travel company.

We talk a lot on this show…
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Double Agents, Dead Drops & Declassified Files: Inside the MI5 Archive of Official Secrets

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For over a century, in a building most of us could not name, an organization known only by its post office box number — PO Box 500, London — has…
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What’s On in London in September 2026 — Open House London, the Bayeux Tapestry & the Last Night of the Proms

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Recorded on location in Hammersmith at Emery Walker's House — the best-preserved Arts and Crafts interior in Britain, packed with original William Morris wallpaper and once home to William Morris's…
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Open Gates and Victoria Sponge – Inside Britain’s National Garden Scheme with Richard Claxton

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In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas is joined by Dr. Richard Claxton, Chief Executive of the National Garden Scheme, for a conversation about one of the most…
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Doggerland, Lyonesse & Cantre’r Gwaelod: The True History Behind Britain’s Drowned Lands

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In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas is joined by Professor Patrick Nunn — geographer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, honorary professorial fellow at the University…
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Early Podcast: The Story So Far - Everything Before I Walk 84 Miles Across England Along Hadrian’s Wall

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This is a special one. Recorded on home soil just days before departure, this is Jonathan Thomas's complete pre-trip briefing before he leaves to walk the entire 84-mile length of…
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The Last Cambridge Spy: Dr. Chris Smith on John Cairncross and the Cambridge Five

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In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas welcomes back Dr. Chris Smith — historian at Coventry University, author of The Hidden History of Bletchley Park and The Last…
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