As Jules yearns for Wales, where he’s lived half his life, he ponders why there’s no English word that captures the feeling so well as the Welsh ‘Hiraeth’ Last month I prepared myself for the final of the six nations rugby, and the match between England and Wales....
As the search for ambition in today’s increasingly competitive world intensifies, we don’t have to look far for inspiration. A few weeks ago I was in Bristol, one of my favourite places, to film a sequence for Countryfile on the history of the docks and their role in...
History is all around us, not least on television. And that accessibility has shown that it’s far from the preserve of academics. It’s ours to cherish. A few weeks ago, I found myself in the back of a taxi on the Uxbridge Road in London, looking for a theatre called...
Record rainfall, a lost summer, homes flooded, then chaos in the snow. It’s been a crazy year. But 12 months ago, things were very, VERY different Cast your mind back just a few weeks to the morning after the night before. It’s the 1st of January 2013, and despite a...
