View from the shed
A retired bobby, copper, if you’re from Lancashire, sits in his shed and has his say. Honest, Northern, and occasionally interrupted by Mrs C with a brew.
View from the shed
Latest Episodes
Hurling, Not Throwing — "The world spent a fortnight arguing about black puddings. Ramsbottom carried on."
Stanley's back from the school holidays to find the country arguing about black puddings.Every second Sunday in September, Ramsbottom holds the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships — twelve Yorkshires on a twenty-foot plinth...
The Safari Bus: A Monkey, a Memory, and Sixty Years of Tandle Hill
The Safari BusGrandad's taxi gets a summer upgrade — and the maiden voyage does not go entirely to plan. Stanley takes the great-grandchildren to Knowsley, meets a monkey with strong opinions about wing mirrors, and lives to tell ...
The Rise and Fall of Captain Obvious
Two empty fields in one fortnight, three thousand miles apart, and the same fella stood in the middle of both with a megaphone. This week Stanley gives him a name.From the shed: the President's birthday party that hardly anybody went to,...
The Battle of Bamber Bridge — Forty Minutes Up the Road
Forty minutes from my shed, just off the M6, there's a pub that's been pulling pints since 1616. In June 1943, it also took four hundred bullets.This week I got in the car and went to find out why.It's the story of the 1511...
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Farage v Binface: A Man and a Bin
I wasn't planning a midweek episode. But a man has resigned from Parliament on purpose, so there can be a by-election, so he can stand in it — and the only candidate who's stepped up to face him wears a bin on his head. Ten minutes on Boaty McB...
