A multi award winning podcast about all that's weird, wonderful and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
Below you'll find the transcript for the Flying Saucers Over Biggleswade episode but here are some links to further information about the great flying saucer hoax, and other useful reading. Here's a link to information about the UFO monument in Frank Russell's honour in Biggleswade pictured below. There's also this article in the Comet all… Continue reading Show Transcript and Notes: Flying Saucers Over Biggleswade
To accompany this week's mini episode about the Grey Lady of Silsoe I thought I'd share some photographs that I took on the morning whilst I recorded birdsong audio for the episode. Wrest Park gardens just after dawn I love the light in the image above taken just before 6AM. Wrest Park is full of… Continue reading Photographs from Wrest Park and Silsoe to accompany the Grey Lady mini episode
Transcript with links for bonus mini episode 3 Welcome to weird in the wade’s first mini episode, a minisode if you like. A short and hopefully sweet snapshot of something spooky or unexplained. A fleeting tale that flits through your ears in a flutter of bird’s wings. It may leave you wanting more but still… Continue reading Mini episode: Silsoe Grey Lady
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qdw4c-141cb4e In this bonus, mini episode, partly recorded on a dawn walk around Wrest Park, hear the ghost story of the grey lady of Silsoe in Bedfordshire. Birdsong will accompany you as we travel back in time and discover what haunts the George Inn and how the haunting is linked to the beautiful and stately… Continue reading Bonus Mini Episode: The Silsoe Grey Lady
One of the tall American trees planted at Wrest Park Holiday and a Bedfordshire ghost story I was on holiday last week not too far from my home, but over the other side of Bedfordshire at Wrest Park. The weather was gorgeous and we were staying in the old gardeners house which had lovely oval… Continue reading New episodes and how to support the podcast
The rise of artificial intelligence might seem spooky sometimes, certainly some of the art AI can create goes beyond uncanny valley into something even darker and stranger. Just look at the case of Loab the AI art that became an urban legend for our times. So I was a little shocked and strangely touched when… Continue reading What have AI done to deserve this?
Transcript and show notes Intro Welcome to Weird in the Wade’s first bonus episode! Weird in the Wade is a podcast about all that’s weird, wonderful, and little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire. We cover the kinds of stories that make you pause and ponder, and will speak to you where… Continue reading Bonus episode: New evidence about Biggleswade’s Great Fire
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xyte6-140a499 A bonus episode about the 1785 Great Fire of Biggleswade. I've unearthed new evidence, which has lain unnoticed for 230 years. Does the established narrative including the cause of the fire need to be challenged? Make up your own mind after listening. Find out about how the news was reported 230 years ago, how… Continue reading Bonus Episode: The Great Fire of Biggleswade, New Evidence.
Why I'm obsessed with podcasts I love podcasts, I wouldn't have made Weird in the Wade if I didn't. I've loved radio all my life and podcasts are really just mini radio shows listened to on your own terms. Some of my fondest memories are of listening to the radio, the Archers omnibus on a… Continue reading Hitting the Right Note: An interview with Tess Savigear composer of Weird in the Wade’s theme
My big ol' smiling face, in the bluebell woods at Cockayne Hatley (confusingly called Potton wood) Thank you! First of all I'd like to thank everyone who has listened to episode one of Weird in the Wade I thought I was being ambitious when I hoped I'd get 50 downloads in the first month and… Continue reading Behind the scenes at weird in the wade!
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