Neil Oliver

Endeavouring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future.

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Morning Neil.

In the last episode, it was 1917 when we travelled with you in the so-called sealed train as it sped Lenin through Europe towards his destiny.

In the tragedy of their loss is the unblemished heart of adventure.

Next time in my love letter to the world.

To help support this podcast and to get access to new content every week, sign up to the Neil Oliver site on patreon.com. I'd love to see you there.

I have a new website address, easy for these complicated times of ours.

Beforehand, let me just give you a reminder about how to support this channel that enables us to do all these things.

Go to patreon.com, find me, Neil Oliver, you'll have to part with a little bit of cash which amounts to about the price of a high street cup of coffee once a month you can look at the back catalogue you can check out all the stuff we've been doing over the years but self-promotion to one side let's get on with it meet my pal go for a walk out and about again in a familiar location this time.

I'm back up on Tinker's Loan, which is that walkway bridle path that's part of the story of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

I'm joined today in the out and about by Gareth Ike in his own part of the world.

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world.

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

Your journey in the last podcast took us to the strange lunar-like landscape of Grimes Graves in Norfolk.

Where are we this week?

Endeavouring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future.

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Morning Neil.

In last week's episode we travelled with you to France as war ripped the world apart.

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world.

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

In the last podcast, we walked with the dead in Ireland's Boyne Valley.

Where are we now?

Next time in my love letter to the British Isles.

To ensure you get each new episode of this podcast as it goes live, don't forget to subscribe.

You can follow in my footsteps as my journey unfolds across these isles of ours by going to my Instagram account, Neil Oliver Love Letter, and seeing the places I've chosen.

I'd also love to know about the history that inspires you.

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world.

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

In last week's podcast, we travelled with you to the heart of an ancient power base on Orkney.

Where's the next stop on

For further reading about these favourite destinations of mine, you could try my book.

It's called The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places and it's published by Transworld.

Neil Oliver's love letter to the British Isles is produced by Neil Oliver and Paul Ratcliffe for Fat Belly Films.

The music's by Malcolm Goldie.

She was on Loose Ends a couple of years ago.

Paul Leonard Morgan is a Scottish composer who has extensive experience composing music for TV series such as Neil Oliver's History of Scotland, as well as Hollywood movies such as Dread, any number of video and computer games.

I think you live in America now, is that right? Yeah, in L.A.

So you're in L.A. A little bit jet-lagged.

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Neil Oliver's a guy.

Neil Oliver's a guy, that's right, yeah.

So this guy, is it Adrian Edmondson or somebody like that? Adrian Edmondson, yeah.

He's one of the young ones.