Herefordshire
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Oct 28, 2026
Olly SmithHOST
Sorry,
Matt TebbuttHOST
where's it from? It's from Herefordshire.
Matt TebbuttHOST
Okay, near me.
Olly SmithHOST
Near you.
6 MINS LATER
Olly SmithHOST
And they were literally just a mile or two from my parents.
Olly SmithHOST
So have a look.
Olly SmithHOST
So the main producing regions are Herefordshire, Somerset, Devon, Gloucestershire.
Olly SmithHOST
I'm also throwing in Sussex because I've seen a lot of cider there where I live.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Here's Strange Hill.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
It was widely accepted in the small Herefordshire village I grew up in, in the 90s, that Rush, as in Rush Keepers, was an abbreviation of Russian.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
This was fact.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
We would often very formally announce Russian Keepers today before an all-day park session started.
Phil KesterGUEST
You can only grow 99.
Phil KesterGUEST
And that is the epicentre of English Perry across Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
Phil KesterGUEST
The real reason behind it is that there used to be a family of giants that lived on the top of May Hill.
Phil KesterGUEST
And the king giant was bought a perry pear from one of his underlings and was told it was the secret for eternal life.
6 MINS LATER
Susan PoiznerHOST
So let's hear more about this orchard and how the trees are different.
Phil KesterGUEST
So this orchard I found a couple of years ago.
Phil KesterGUEST
It's a beautiful orchard in a village called Gorsley, just across the border from Gloucestershire into Herefordshire.
Phil KesterGUEST
A beautiful, quiet spot.
Rachael BrownHOST
We're going to go to Martin Williams.
Rachael BrownHOST
He's an arable farmer from Herefordshire.
Martin WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Right.
Martin WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thinking about politicians and what they their phrases that annoy me.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
And so I go there about twice a year to accompany the community and we have regular back and forths between that community to support each other.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
And closer to home, we look after all the parishes in Herefordshire.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
the St John Campbell Deanery as it is.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
We also look after the church of Little Malvern where Edward Elgar is buried in the graveyard and Abergavenny just over the border into Wales.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
And that means that eventually he has to move the family away from the paradise he's built in the countryside and they end up in London.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
And that's obviously quite formative for Elizabeth because Elizabeth is passionate about the countryside, about Herefordshire countryside, which remains, sort of furnishes her imagination for all of her life, even when she's you know, happily married and living in Italy to kind of flash forward.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
She compares what she sees with the Herefordshire countryside.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
There's this kind of fundamental period in her life when she is the daughter of this really wealthy family.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
She's the firstborn.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
She was a neurotic.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
But I think quite clearly when one reads Shakespeare, the archival evidence, which includes quite a lot of doctors' reports because fabulously wealthy family.
Fiona SampsonGUEST
So she doesn't go to Harley Street, but the great Harley Street specialists come to Herefordshire, which is a really long way, particularly in those days, and treat her.
speaker_13HOST
Where
speaker_27HOST
have you come from, Jane? Herefordshire.
speaker_27HOST
OK, and your name, sir? Colin.
speaker_27HOST
You know each other, then?
JaneGUEST
So I do know Dorset a little bit, but it's just nice to kind of rediscover it.
JaneGUEST
Beautiful, beautiful countryside.
speaker_27HOST
How will you describe it when you go back home and talk to your friends in Herefordshire
ColinGUEST
then? We compare lots of things to Herefordshire because we always find Herefordshire is understated, but it's a stunning county and we love Herefordshire.
Aled Trace JonesGUEST
And we've got very strong committees in all of the counties of Wales.
Aled Trace JonesGUEST
So we've got 14 county advisory committees, 12 in Wales and two on the border in Herefordshire and Shropshire.
Aled Trace JonesGUEST
All those counties have strong county committees which feed in and the 12 Welsh counties then taken in turn to become the future county.
Aled Trace JonesGUEST
So what would an average day be? Well, today, for example, I've just had a couple of calls this morning with members of my team.
Richard AbelsHOST
One of the stories he tells is about a Welshman of evil life who died unchristianly.
Richard AbelsHOST
The setting for the story is an unnamed village in Herefordshire.
Richard AbelsHOST
After a lifetime marked by malicious acts, this Welshman returned from the grave to plague his neighbors.
Richard AbelsHOST
Four nights after his death, he rose from the grave and called out by name fellow villagers.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
When the officiating priest was about to celebrate Mass, it was the custom here to spread linen upon the hedges, as assigned to those in the adjacent villages who wished to attend.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
A hiding-place at Treego, Herefordshire, an unique specimen of a thirteenth-century fortified mansion, inhabited by the Minor family for more than four hundred years, has quite luxurious accommodation, a sleeping place and a reading desk.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
It is called Pope's Hole.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
The walls on the southeast side of the house are of immense thickness, and there are many indications of secret passages within them.
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