Lincolnshire
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Sep 22, 2026
Robert MorganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When the Puritans migrated to America in the early 1600s, they established the city of Boston.
Robert MorganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The first Englishman to inhabit Boston was a pastor and a chaplain named William Blaxton, who named the city for his hometown, the city of Boston in Lincolnshire in England.
Robert MorganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Over the next hundred years, Boston grew into a thriving community that increasingly resented British domination.
Robert MorganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It all culminated, as we know, in the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Jeff BelangerHOST
But these aren't just any apple trees, Ray.
Jeff BelangerHOST
These trees are descended from the grove of apple trees from Isaac Newton's childhood home in Lincolnshire, England.
Jeff BelangerHOST
Wow.
Jeff BelangerHOST
A cutting of the descended tree was gifted to Roger Babson years ago.
Tony FosterNARRATOR
I have, for the same reason of the British origin of the legend, preferred the simple and apposite derivation of the name of Curran, taken by the hero during his servitude, from the Welsh Curran, a wonder, to the Norman explanation of the name as meaning a scullion, which seems to be rather a guess, based on the menial position of the prince, than a translation.
Tony FosterNARRATOR
For the long existence of a Welsh servile population in the lowlands of Lincolnshire there is evidence enough in the story of Guthlac of Crowland, and the type may still be found there.
Tony FosterNARRATOR
There need be little excuse for claiming some remains of their old Christianity among them, and the hermit who reads the dream for the princess may well have been a half-forgotten Welsh priest.
Tony FosterNARRATOR
But the medieval poems have Christianised the ancient legend until it would seem to stand in somewhat the same relationship to what it was as the German Nibelungenlied does to the Volsunga Saga.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Romance of Polar Exploration by G. Firth Scott, Chapter Two.
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Sir John Franklin was born at Spilsby in Lincolnshire on April the 16th, 1786, and was one of a family of 10.
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It is said that his father originally intended him for the clergy, but the boy had too restless and roving a nature to look with contentment upon a quiet, uneventful life.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Nelson was the idol of his heart, and although 100 years ago, boys were not quite so well-provided with books and stories of their heroes as they are today, young Franklin managed to acquire enough knowledge of the doings of Nelson and the other great British admirals to make his heart thrill with enthusiasm for them and for the element upon which their greatness had been achieved.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Over that sea also lay the realms of ice and snow, of which more marvelous tales were told than of the golden islands of the southern seas.
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And to sail over that sea, a great yearning came upon him.
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The life on shore in peaceful, steady-going Lincolnshire was too dreary and hopeless for him.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Nowhere could he be happy, save on that boundless ocean with room to breathe and surrounded by all the glamour of romance.
Richard TiceGUEST
So two sides of that rectangle are basically the sea.
Richard TiceGUEST
It's in South Lincolnshire.
Richard TiceGUEST
It's very, very flat, as is most of that area of Lincolnshire.
Richard TiceGUEST
It's got probably the most productive agricultural farmland, much of which, some of which is actually below sea level, a bit like in the Netherlands.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
Banks, a gentleman of considerable landed property, whose family was originally of Swedish extraction, although it had been settled in England for several generations.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
The early life of Joseph Banks was passed principally at Reversby Hall, his father's seat in Lincolnshire, and his education was for several years entrusted to a private tutor.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
In his ninth year, he was sent to Harrow, and four years after to Eton, from whence he proceeded to Christ's College, Oxford.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
During his residence at college, he made considerable progress in classical knowledge, but evinced at the same time a decided predilection for the study of natural history.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
After a strict investigation, he was soon liberated, but the incident occasioned much amusement in the neighborhood.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
In the year 1761, Mr.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
Banks lost his father, and in 1764, on coming of age, was put in possession of his valuable estates in Lincolnshire.
Phil SchampfNARRATOR
Mrs.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
The Romance of Polar Exploration by G. Firth Scott, Chapter Two.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Sir John Franklin was born at Spilsby in Lincolnshire on April the 16th, 1786, and was one of a family of 10.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
It is said that his father originally intended him for the clergy, but the boy had too restless and roving a nature to look with contentment upon a quiet, uneventful life.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Nelson was the idol of his heart, and although 100 years ago, boys were not quite so well-provided with books and stories of their heroes as they are today, young Franklin managed to acquire enough knowledge of the doings of Nelson and the other great British admirals to make his heart thrill with enthusiasm for them and for the element upon which their greatness had been achieved.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Over that sea also lay the realms of ice and snow, of which more marvelous tales were told than of the golden islands of the southern seas.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
And to sail over that sea, a great yearning came upon him.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
The life on shore in peaceful, steady-going Lincolnshire was too dreary and hopeless for him.
Greg LewinNARRATOR
Nowhere could he be happy save on that boundless ocean with room to breathe and surrounded by all the glamour of romance.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Chapter two.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Sir John Franklin was born at Spilsby in Lincolnshire on April the 16th, 1786, and was one of a family of 10.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It is said that his father originally intended him for the clergy, but the boy had too restless and roving a nature to look with contentment upon a quiet, uneventful life.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Nelson was the idol of his heart, and although 100 years ago, boys were not quite so well provided with books and stories of their heroes as they are today, young Franklin managed to acquire enough knowledge of the doings of Nelson and the other great British admirals to make his heart thrill with enthusiasm for them and for the element upon which their greatness had been achieved.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Over that sea also lay the realms of ice and snow, of which more marvelous tales were told than of the golden islands of the southern seas.
speaker_5NARRATOR
And to sail over that sea, a great yearning came upon him.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The life on shore in peaceful, steady-going Lincolnshire was too dreary and hopeless for him.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Nowhere could he be happy save on that boundless ocean with room to breathe and surrounded by all the glamour of romance.
Dan ElkingtonHOST
11 plus oh 11 plus that's a good point we
Alex KeenanHOST
ought to get on to 11 plus actually because that is Lincolnshire again and topical historical artefacts that ought to be revised
Mike GilbertHOST
Yeah.
Mike GilbertHOST
Well, I've never really understood, you know, I never took the 11 plus because we moved down from Newcastle to Norfolk.
Dan ElkingtonHOST
You've got to work out what's changed between, like, the top two pictures and then... do the same translation in the bottom and then guess the right shape, sorry, pick, select, whatever, the right shape.
Dan ElkingtonHOST
Each exam paper is re-based so you get a minimum score of 69 and a maximum score of 144.
Dan ElkingtonHOST
This is in Lincolnshire, the Kent ones are different.
Dan ElkingtonHOST
So if you score nothing, you end up getting a rebase score of 69.
Max AdamsGUEST
I thought that was important.
Max AdamsGUEST
So I really wanted to walk out of Lincolnshire into the fens across into Norfolk.
Max AdamsGUEST
I just thought I really want to do that.
Max AdamsGUEST
And I wanted to walk across the wheel from Kent into Sussex.
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