Author John Butterworth talks to Richard Vobes for the Bald Explorer project about the coaching era at the Lion Hotel in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The Lion Hotel is Shrewsbury’s premier coaching inn steeped in history and was filmed in 2011 as part of the Bald Explorer series.
Even though it is cold outside, it doesn’t stop my friend Harriet and I from getting out and about on the Shropshire Hill when I am up visiting her. We find walking very invigorating as well as a healthy activity. A part from recording a podcast which we occasionally do when hiking in the countryside […]
Its been confirmed. I am staying for a night at the Mermaid Inn in the rather quaint and historic town of Rye in East Sussex. Whats so special about the Mermaid Inn you might well ask? Well, The Mermaid is unquestionably the most beautiful of all smugglers’ inns and undoubtedly one of the loveliest of […]
Filming on the marshes is an interesting affair. There are a couple of things right away that make them unique in my experience of producing video. Firstly, they are incredibly flat and secondly, the lighting and weather conditions can change quite rapidly. Starting with the weather, always some thing you have to keep an eye […]
Nigel Cooper is an actor and is working with me on the next Bald Explorer. He plays a comedy smuggler and here we talk about the role and give an example of the sort of things we are up to!
This is the second of our Behind the Scenes videos. This time I am in Dungeness on the south coast of Kent. I am filming on my own. The police come over to have a word and ask em what I am up to. Its all quite exciting.
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