Explore fascinating stories from Cumbria.
Radio Cumbria,·30 episodes
Andrew Carter meets the Cumbria emergency service you've not heard of.
30 May 2026,·22 mins
Andrew Carter grabs a cab ride on the highest mainline in England.
16 May 2026,·26 mins
Alan Kelly confronts his demons at the Keswick orphanage he was evacuated to during WWII.
19 Apr 2026,·34 mins
Andrew Carter meets the band who keep a 950 year old tradition alive and ringing.
08 Mar 2026,·25 mins
Andrew Carter meets the 'watery millers' at the Grade 2* listed mill east of Carlisle.
25 Jan 2026,·24 mins
Family owned bakery, Bells of Lazonby near Penrith, is the mince pie capital of England.
21 Dec 2025,·26 mins
In search of the man behind the best selling pictorial guides to the Lakeland fells.
26 Oct 2025,·27 mins
Alex Sharphouse had a dream to build from a scratch a Fowler B6 Big Lion Road Locomotive.
05 Oct 2025,·26 mins
After the Rainhill Trials this iconic steam engine rusted away on a Cumbrian train line.
07 Sep 2025,·24 mins
Uncovering the tradition of crowning the landlord of the Ship Inn the 2nd King of England
03 Aug 2025,·19 mins
Robert Southey wrote the original version of the world's most famous fairy tale.
27 Jul 2025,·15 mins
Archie Workman is one of the last lengthsmen maintaining Colton Parish Council's roads.
22 Jun 2025,·13 mins
Meet the guys who show Andrew Carter how they feed, water and repair the 130 ton beasts.
01 Jun 2025,·27 mins
West Cumbrian businessman, Mark Telford, built a replica nuclear fuel storage pond.
04 May 2025,·10 mins
Forget the speaking clock or pips, in the past you set your watch with a cannon going off!
13 Apr 2025,·6 mins
From Bing Crosby, ghosts, and floods to a private archive of national importance.
06 Apr 2025,·19 mins
And other stories from the oldest biscuit factory in the world.
20 Mar 2025,·25 mins
When rival 18th Century Lakeland museums jockey to be the top dog, almost anything goes!
13 Feb 2025,·27 mins
For 50 years Francis Coulson and Brian Sack ran this remarkable award winning hotel.
17 Jan 2025,·27 mins
250 years ago an eccentric bought Vicar's Island on Derwentwater and caused a scandal.
01 Dec 2024,·13 mins
The Carlisle Cricket Club dig has revealed the largest Roman building on Hadrian's Wall.
17 Nov 2024,·30 mins
Andrew Carter explores more subterranean features and the abandoned station master's flat
01 Nov 2024,·20 mins
Birkshead mine near Appleby-in-Westmorland is a 1000 ft deep under rolling farmland.
14 Oct 2024,·30 mins
Millican Dalton the 'Professor of Adventure' lived in a cave on Castle Crag for 30 years.
04 Sep 2024,·12 mins
Underneath the platforms Andrew Carter discovers deserted kitchens, and hidden tunnels.
22 Aug 2024,·12 mins
Constructed during the Cold War, it was a refuge for 3 Royal Observer Corp volunteers.
09 Aug 2024,·24 mins
Food historian Ivan Day cooks a food staple, that's disappeared into the mists of time.
02 Aug 2024,·12 mins
Underneath the court building the Tudor gun bastion has been hidden for 200 years.
26 Jul 2024,·10 mins
The condemned cell is in Carlisle Citadel, which dominates the city's southern entrance.
19 Jul 2024,·12 mins
The Prior's Tower in the Close is home to one of the finest ceilings in the north.
12 Jul 2024,·10 mins
