reading rocks
Geologist and writer Ian Jackson reads a selection of stories from pages of his five books about northern rocks and their connections with our landscape ….and us. The stories of this first series – Time travelling - begin almost 500 million years ago and end with the Roman conquest of the north.
Podcasting since 2026 • 27 episodes
reading rocks
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Time-travelling by train - Carlisle to Settle
These podcasts originally started as abstracts from some of the 260 places in the 5 rock books. They are themed differently to the books – by geological time, the relevance of rocks and most recently Series 3 and 4 took journeys along Hadrian’s...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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11:52
Wonderful Wear
I know the River Wear starts at the confluence of several streams at the eponymous Wearhead, but we are going a little way up one of thse streams to Killhope. We will pick up a tale of lead mining there - the geology related to the minera...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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19:22
The garden of Eden
A journey from source to sea but this time the Irish sea. The River Eden starts in the south and flows north before turning west near Carlisle and heading to the Solway estuary. There are quite a few places we’ve already visited along the river...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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14:07
There's only one Tyne
Since the last episode we and the river have flowed past Newbrough with its definite Roam road and indefinite Roman fort and go and on through Hexham. Both places described in previous episodes. The Tyne is now a single river. Waters meet...
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Episode 4
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14:47
Seduced by Silver but sustained by lead
We begin quite a way up the South Tyne Valley – appropriately at a place called Tynehead to try to get to the bottom of the many stories about the Romans and silver mining in the north. The metals theme continues with stops and stories at a pre...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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13:52
