Martin Hesp
August 15 and 16 seem to be fateful days in the West Country where some of the worst weather events on record have occurred on those dates - including the Lynmouth Food Disaster exactly 70 years ago and the terrible flood at Boscastle 18 years past… the rains nearly caused havoc again this year…
My sound recording made at Helwell Bay for BBC Radio Four’s Today programme Best Beaches feature - but it was messed up by them and broadcast under someone else’s name
Remembering a night out in Nha Trang on the coast of Vietnam - a long evening of eating and dancing…
A walk around the amazing scenery of Lynton and Lynmouth on the Exmoor coast
A walk around Weir Water, above Robber’s Bridge on Exmoor
A heatwave in southern UK today means loads of people will be out having picnics - but where to go in the South West? Here are some ideas…
A visit to Huxbear Vineyard in Devon with Wickhams Wine and wine writer Stephen Barrett - listn to the wine tasting in this podcast
Ancient grains - the types of cereal we humans were eating 10,000 years ago when we began farming - are making a comeback. We find out why…
