Goonhilly Down, the Trelowarren Estate and Sir Ferrers Vyvyan
Release Date: 10/09/2020
Celebrating English Wine Week
Adventures in Journalism
We set out to celebrate English Wine Week by visiting the Huxbear Vineyard in South Devon in the company of and the wine writer Stephen Barrett
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Mary Quicke, farmer and cheesemaker
Adventures in Journalism
We spend a morning touring the amazing Quicke estate in central Devon with Mary Quicke, the forward -thinking woman who makes some of the best cheddar cheese in the world
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Launching Taste East Devon with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Others
Adventures in Journalism
Recorded at the launch of Taste East Devon, Martin Hesp talks to the movers and shakers behind a new group set up to promote the food and drink of one of the most beautiful and fertile areas of the UK - interviewees include Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef Michael Caines and many others
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The World of Food Judging
Adventures in Journalism
Martin Hesp spends a couple of days watching the judging in the product classes of the anual Food Drink Devon Awards. It's an exacting process which means thopse stickers you see attached to items on supermarket shelves declaring "Gold" or "Silver" really do mean what they say
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The Consumer Brand - a new way of thinking about the food and drink we buy
Adventures in Journalism
Would you be interested in hearing about a new way of food shopping which both pays the farmer fairly and also insists upon environmentally friendly practices in agriculture? Those are the sort of decisions consumer power can make happen - and now it's possible thanks to a new concept which was originally born in France 5 years ago. There, the English name is Who's The Boss - in the UK it's called The Consumer Brand - and the first product has now been launched. Martin Hesp talks to the people behind the iniative...
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Revolting Peasants of Exmoor - Remembering a Chat With Molly Groves
Adventures in Journalism
There has been talk of centralising the control of England's national parks - an idea that will not go down well with local people who live in the remote uplands of places like Exmoor. In this podcast journalist Martin Hesp brushes off an old interview he did with Molly Groves - one of the founders of the Exmoor Revolting Peasants party - a pressure group formed by local people in the early 2000s
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Regenerative Farming in Cornwall
Adventures in Journalism
Journalist Martin Hesp joins Francis Clarke, the managing director of the highly regarded Trewithen Dairy, on a visit to a South Cornish holding where they are shown the benefits of regenerative farming by expert Tom Tolputt, who explains that the system could actually take carbon out of the atmosphere while at the same time producing fantastically healthy milk and cream, beef and lamb
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Talking to the Wheelwrights
Adventures in Journalism
In his travels as editor-at-large of a daily newspaper in the UK Martin Hesp came across many interesting people working in all manner of industries and trades - in this podcast he looks back at his meeting with the Rowland family - the Royal Warrant wheelwrights of East Devon
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Cider-maker Roger Wilkins Talks About Banksy and Other Celebs
Adventures in Journalism
Well known Somerset cider-maker Roger Wilkins talks to Martin Hesp about Banksy the artist and the great many other celebrities who've been to his old cider-house at Land's End Farm, Mudgeley, overlooking the Somerset Levels
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Sharpham Shows Off Its Wine and Cheese
Adventures in Journalism
Sharpham Estate in Devon is famous for its wine and its cheese - but this year, more than ever, it was important to remind tourism providers and other movers and shakers about the fine produce that is made down by the shores of the River Dart in the South Hams
info_outlineMartin Hesp chats to Sir Ferrers Vyvyan who has taken him on a tour of the remarkable Trelowarren Estate in Cornwall and who talks about the weird and wonderful landscape known as Goonhilly Down