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Question Time: Spiky Plants, Lazy Car Park Gardens & a Gnome on the Razzle

Is jungle planting a bloke thing? And more importantly, does a man who wants a garden that requires no gardening actually deserve one? James Alexander-Sinclair and Joe Swift throw the horticultural handbook out of the window again, this time for a full mailbag. What starts as a reasonable question …

The Tuesday Bells 🔔; Shenanigans in Barchester; and blessed John Clare

Listener mail is warmly welcomed 🙋‍♀️ Hello and welcome! I share with you a photograph from my walk today, where we passed Sherborne New Castle, built by the wonderful Walter Raleigh. Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She sh…

Sir Walter Raleigh's Search for El Dorado

Sir Walter Raleigh's life was a turbulent one, to say the least. The Elizabethan statesman and explorer climbed to the top rung of Queen Elizabeth's court; he founded the ill-fated Roanoke colony in North America; he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for various offences against the crown - not…

The First Indigenous Americans in Europe

1492 marked the beginning of the Colombian Exchange - the transfer of people, goods, ideas and commodities across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas. We hear a lot about the conquistadors, the settlers, Jesuit priests and colonisers from Spain, Portugal and Britain whose success in the 'N…

Lost Colony of Roanoke | In the Name of the Queen | 1

In the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth the First of England was locked in a battle for global dominance with Spain. She picked her favorite advisor, Walter Raleigh, to claim land in North America. In the coming years, Raleigh’s men made several voyages and explored the area known as the Outer Banks, …

The Roanoke Colony – The Colony That Vanished Without a Trace

The Roanoke Colony, also known as “The Lost Colony,” was an English settlement founded on Roanoke Island (in present-day North Carolina, USA) in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. The colony quickly lost contact with England, and when a rescue expedition returned in 1590, the entire colony had disappeared…

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Vol 1 Second Part Chapter IV part 2 - Voyages of adventure and privateering warfare.

In which the daring voyages of late sixteenth-century Dutch and English navigators are chronicled with keen attention to their hardships, battles, and discoveries along the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Pacific, revealing a world both hostile and ripe for conquest. Amidst the perilous se…

Walter Raleigh - Part 5 - The sacking of Cadiz - and two more Spanish Armadas

The war with Spain continues. Raleigh is badly injured in the attack and sacking of Cadiz, and King Philip organizes not just one new armada - but two - to try and finally overthrow Elizabeth. Meanwhile, Robert Devereux - the Earl of Essex - gets bolder and more powerful. Sponsors: Quince. G…

El Dorado- The City of Gold

For centuries, explorers crossed jungles, climbed mountains, starved, fought, killed, and died searching for El Dorado — the legendary lost city of gold. There was just one problem. El Dorado wasn't originally a city. The legend began with the Muisca people of present-day Colombia and stories of a …

Lost Colony of Roanoke | In the Name of the Queen | 1

In the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth the First of England was locked in a battle for global dominance with Spain. She picked her favorite advisor, Walter Raleigh, to claim land in North America. In the coming years, Raleigh’s men made several voyages and explored the area known as the Outer Banks, …