Episode 7 of More Than Words: “I’ve Got A99 Problems (But a Broch Ain’t One)”

Because nothing screams “holiday vibes” like whirlpools, feral cows, and Viking soap operas.

Featuring:



🌪️ The firth of froth


🐄 Feral cattle


🎶 The original “Islands in the Stream”


📸 John o’ Groats: signpost selfies, shattered illusions


🏰 Bucholie Castle: visitors not welcome


🪞 Neolithic eyebrow routines


🚂 A railway only slightly longer than its train


👻 Ghosting: 15th century style


🐟 Fishy Wall Street

It’s history, myth, and sarcastic sightseeing along the Caithness coast.

Episode 6 of More Than Words is here!

Featuring:

🪨 Castle Bloody — less massacre, more Neolithic IKEA

🗿 Giants chucking monoliths at each other

🌉Churchill’s Gap Years

🏰 A laird who demolished a village for a better view

⛪ A chapel built from corned beef tins and an exhaust pipe

⛳ Britain’s most northerly crazy golf course (bring an anorak)

🐎 Children ploughing sand and dressed as Clydesdales

It’s history, trivia, and travel chatter with a tailwind of sarcasm.

Episode 5 is here! ... “Things Can Only Get Wetter.”

Because nothing says “travel podcast” like kelp, 18th century cryptocurrency, and a boiling-water tap with a vendetta.

Featuring:

🔥 Child-proof tech that isn’t middle-aged-man-proof

🐟 Herring history (because nothing screams drama like fish logistics)

🍘 Seaweed — the Bitcoin of the 18th century

🧀 Monks Bear Grylls would salute, assuming he could find them

🦸‍♀️ Ecclesiastical super heroes

🐑 Sheep that prefer Itsu

It’s history, it’s trivia, it’s travel, all soaked in sarcasm.

It's Episode 4 of More Than Words — the podcast where I claim to be traversing Britain, but in reality I’m just sweating on a spin bike.

This week we’re still at sea, so expect:

• Fair Isle’s knitwear empire
• North Ronaldsay’s seaweed‑eating sheep
• Enough lighthouses to keep the Stevenson family in royalties for generations
• Spanish shipwrecks, and
• A golf ball incident that nearly ended this podcast before it even began.

Think National Geographic meets Casualty...

Episode 3 of More Than Words!

This week we sail from Shetland to Orkney ... expect ferries, ponies, giants, Norse feminism, knitwear, and the occasional 7th‑century gang tag.

Think history, humour, and a healthy dose of sarcasm — basically Bill Bryson, if he’d stayed for that sixth pint.

OK, it’s time for the thing absolutely nobody asked for - Episode 2 of my "More Than Words" virtual travelogue.

There'll be history, myth, and place names that make 12-year-olds giggle.

You can also expect:

• Norse parliaments
• Oil-fuelled boomtowns
• Fire festivals,
• A Viking-themed Shetland spinoff

• Rabbits guarding WWII gun batteries

Exploring Britain’s furthest flung places — and the limits of one man’s knees.

“More Than Words” is a podcast chronicling a virtual expedition across Britain’s extremes — from the northernmost village to the southernmost settlement, with stops at the highest peak, the lowest fen, and several places that sound made up.

It’s part fitness challenge, part cultural exploration, and mostly an excuse to talk about obscure trivia, failed resolutions, and the joys of Excel conditional formatting. Expect puns, ghosts, and reflections on the slow collapse of my joints.