BBC Radio Podcasts from Hometown Boring?

6. MILTON KEYNES: Worth Raving About

A huge warehouse club at the centre of 1990s rave culture. In Milton Keynes?

5. PLYMOUTH: Life of “The Devonshire Wonder”

Highlighting the I in LGBTQIA+ History, through the life of Mark Weston

4. SLOUGH: South Asian Women on Strike

How one strike in 1979 connects to South Asian women’s resistance across the UK

3. CHEPSTOW: Wales’s First Black Footballer

Exploring the life of Eddie Parris, the first Black footballer to represent Wales

2. CUMBERNAULD: Demolishing a New Town

The story of a pioneering shopping centre that is soon to be demolished

1. ORMSKIRK: From Gingerbread to a Global Empire

How does one local recipe connect to the dark history of the British Empire?

Introducing Hometown Boring?

Unearthing hidden histories around the UK in places misjudged as being “boring”