Worcester

Matt, you looked up Nathan Astle's stats, didn't you? Did you look up that innings? Oh, see, I got that wrong because I talked about it and he went straight to his laptop.

Glenn Turner hit a county cricket 300 in one day in 1983 for Worcester.

Worcester.

Worcestershire.

And that was 100 runs a session.

There you go.

Cromwell and his army do occupy Scotland.

And it all comes to its finale at the Battle of Worcester, where that final royalist army, most of whom are Scots, are defeated by Cromwell.

And that paves the way for what will become the Cromwellian occupation of Scotland.

And that lasts for nine years?

Facing down opponents there.

Massive and bloody campaign in Ireland.

And then even after Worcester, there's a huge anti-Cromwellian rebellion in Scotland between 1652 and 1655, known as Glencairn's Rising.

So the civil wars don't really end, to be honest.

You know, whereas today in a daily newsroom, all right, probably not in Coventry because it's probably still a little bit bigger.

But say in somewhere like Gloucestershire or Worcester, you've probably got 12 or 15.

You know, by an order of magnitude, it's so much smaller.

Now, clearly, technology has a bit of an impact in it and it helps to automate parts of the job that would have been a bit more labour intensive.

I think that calls for a no, no, no, no, no in your direction.

Lots of love to your mothers, Nick from Worcester.

Well, I tell you what, you can keep skiing.

been there done that tried it hated it there's something about ice that you know it doesn't want to be walked on it's ice has evolved like anything else it spent years evolving into a state that people can't trample all over it and yet repeatedly they go well i'm what am i doing this i'm going to see nico case this week and i'm doing doing some gigs so um anyway we'll get uh we'll get charlie baker in after this next song he can adjudge the good deeds this is your it's your kind of three minute warning if you've got one that you've been holding back for the end now's the time to get it in on 64046 johnrichardson.6music at bbc.co.uk charlie baker will be here after max sedgley there we go that's happy by max sedgley what a convenient way of ending happy hour then with a song called happy it's pretty slick Now, I've had the great privilege of working with a number of guests on this show.

Whether she died in 1657 or 1662 is unconfirmed.

A Dingley family was known to have occupied the Lausanne and Lincolnhorn areas from 1577, and a Dorothy Dingley had married a Richard, son of George Durant from Worcester, as told in Sabine Baring Gould's Cornish Characters and Strange Events .

It is thought that both Dorothy and her husband were buried in South Petherwen in 1677, making this Dorothy too old to be the ghost of the story.

However, there is a theory that it may have been the ghost of her mother, also a Dorothy, who died in South Petherwin in 1655, approximately.

it's funny, the choice of Coventry.

And, you know, I was actually based in Worcester, which is just sort of getting down the road.

Worcester is a beautiful, uh, cathedral, uh, city, uh, just South of Birmingham, just West of Coventry, which was just where that campus was.

Um, yeah, I'm always a little bit conflicted because, you know, the bottom line is, you know, I, there's a big part of me that should have really just taken another year and reset my exams because when I was in the band, yeah, I just didn't, I just wasn't really paying attention.

And, um, I didn't get the grades that I was predicted to get.

Maybe also actually because, you know, I was doing a lot of theater.

You know, if you're doing theater and you're sort of doing youth theater and acting, you're trying to get into the mind of people and what their motivations and all this kind of stuff.

So I think I had a bit of an itch and I just did a bit of research into what, psychology or social psychology was all about and then you know once i sort of then validated it by going well can i do that here um then then it was just a case of of you know persuaded them to take me so it it was a bit of a um you know to even say i chose it i probably had about three choices of places i could have got in and done that um but actually with with Coventry really didn't spend any time there, but with Worcester, it was just, um, I think because I'd come from this little town in Sidmouth, Worcester as a city, uh, is pretty small and the river seven runs right through it.

do one? We did a rage painting.

Did you do rage painting? Yeah, we went to Worcester.

So it shows that

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