Irish stew
Richard Lutz scurries over and round the Irish border.
Setting of the sweet sun
Richard Lutz bids farewell to a friend.
Covid Chronicles: the last hurrah
Richard Lutz grabs a handful of meadowsweet and delivers his last food parcel.
Covid chronicles: The case of the kilted chickens
Richard Lutz wanders through the dying embers of Lockdown Land.
Cheers and Piers
Richard Lutz is blasted by a storm and blessed with a Google promise.
50 shades of you know what
Richard Lutz tours the geometry of a grey Evenlode valley.
Two weeks, two walks, two winter days
Richard Lutz treks through the changes of winter.
Of haws, herons and hawks
Richard Lutz takes in the autumn.
The town that doesn’t see itself
Sheilagh Matheson works in an African community so poor it can’t afford mirrors.
Voices in the Machine
Richard Lutz queries just who benefits from ever-newer levels of digital technology.
Table talk
Richard Lutz checks out his coffee table to find out who he is.
UK’s largest jewellery-making store launched at Jewellery Quarter
Cooksongold to mark its 100th anniversary with new opening.
Birmingham Fashion Festival 2018 – call for participants
Festival returns to city after successful 2017 debut.
Virtual Man and other tales
Richard Lutz ponders the last seven days of a mis-spent middle age.
The rights and wrongs of Mr Will Mapplebeck
Will Mapplebeck looks back at his looking forward.
Kenya Uncovered
Sweet wine, proverbs stitched into clothes, a 90km road race: Katy Dutko, an educational aid officer in Africa, offers a page from her Kenyan notebook
What the stones remember; what you will never know
Richard Lutz gets down and dirty to come up against history in the raw.
That was the walk that was..and other tales
Richard Lutz checks out how he wandered through another week.
Meeting Up in Shanghai: Flatscreens, money, internet shopping… but still wary of the past
Journalist Sheilagh Matheson catches up with old Chinese friends – 40 years after they first met. Times have changed.
Meet the TV experts and become an antiques bargain hunter
Antiques Roadshow meets Cash in the Attic with the launch of luxury day trips to learn from TV experts how to spot a cut-price collector’s item.
Strictly remembering
Simon Hale talks to Strictly star Brendan Cole about his upcoming tour.
Mulling It Over
Richard Lutz heads towards an edge of Britain rarely visited.
Cyprus: 40 years ago I was liberated
Ugur Karagozlu recalls fearful times on the troubled island of Cyprus – when Turkish forces intervened.
August 1914 – One hundred years since the Great War started
To commemorate the start of the First World War Andy Goff went to France and Belgium
Spaceships, Guns and Breakdancing
Tom Bennett investigates the Destiny Beta.
Pixel Perfect – The resurgence of the 8-bit pixel art style
Tom Bennett brings us up to date with a step back in time for computer gamers.
Bigger than Dylan
Dave Woodhall talks to John Otway, music’s most successful failure.
The big journey
Dave Woodhall speaks to Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson.
Book review: Alice Munro’s Dear Life
In the light of today’s Nobel Literature Prize award we reproduce Laurence Inman’s review of the winner’s Dear Life.
Thought for the month
What can you do to help others? Gordon Harley has an idea.