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
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...
Their Day — Lincoln in Manchester, and what time the Americans should arrive.
Nobody in Heywood has noticed it's the fourth of July. The bins went out as normal.But Stanley has reason to think about America. After leaving the force, he spent some years as security advisor to an American scientist — which meant col...
He Told Them, Out Loud, To a Microphone
Andy Burnham is the man who ran Greater Manchester for nine years — which means, among other things, that he was the man at the top of the organisation that pays Stanley’s pension. So Stanley has been paying attention.
Did You Ever See a UFO, Stanley?
Three pensioners walk into a pub. The conversation starts with JD Vance’s chicken coop, moves through the Epstein files and the Prince Formerly Known As Andrew, takes a detour via the Pentagon’s UFO releases, and ends with Kath the barmaid aski...
