Northowram, Halifax
A small village which mysteriously has two cricket clubs, separated by a dry stone wall.
- 42 mins
- 15 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - The Patch - Available Episodes
The Patch
One producer, one randomly generated postcode, and an unheard story unfolding in a corner of Britain we wouldn't otherwise know about.
Episodes (33 Available)
- St Mary Cray
One of the largest settled Romani communities in the UK and an extraordinary cemetery
- 42 mins
- 08 Apr 2024
- Prestatyn
When did this North Wales coast town end up in conflict with its local gull population?
- 42 mins
- 01 Apr 2024
- Broadstone, Poole
A random postcode and a random spate of arson attacks in Dorset.
- 28 mins
- 07 Sep 2023
- Freiston, Boston
An unexpected story springs from a landscape in rural Lincolnshire's hidden histories
- 28 mins
- 31 Aug 2023
- Farnborough
A random postcode generator takes us to Britain's only airport dedicated to private jets.
- 28 mins
- 24 Aug 2023
- Bolton
An unusual litter picking group and a knotty problem.
- 28 mins
- 29 Mar 2023
- Sunderland Point, Morecambe
A village that gets cut off twice a day by the tide, and the shanty crew who live there.
- 28 mins
- 22 Mar 2023
- Gartree, Market Harborough
The small rural village that hosts a prison for people serving life sentences.
- 28 mins
- 15 Mar 2023
- Feltwell
The random postcode generator leads to rural Norfolk's mysterious US military domes.
- 28 mins
- 08 Mar 2023
- Haringey
In an inner London borough, tales of loss and longing, told through vegetables
- 28 mins
- 09 Aug 2021
- Eastbourne
Golden retrievers from Turkey arrive at an Eastbourne car park on a monthly basis - why?
- 28 mins
- 02 Aug 2021
- Welwyn Garden City
The random postcode generator takes us to a religious order living here.
- 28 mins
- 26 Jul 2021
- Lowestoft
An old boatyard in Lowestoft and the myth and legend of its "uncatchable" boat.
- 28 mins
- 19 Jul 2021
- Hawkhurst, Kent
An ex-army corporal is on a quest to restore military graves and help veterans with PTSD.
- 28 mins
- 12 Jul 2021
- Camborne
One producer, one random generated postcode, and the search for an unheard story.
- 28 mins
- 24 Aug 2020
- Milton Keynes
The random postcode generator delivers us up a Jimi Hendrix roadie turned pornographer
- 28 mins
- 17 Aug 2020
- Anglesey
Surprisingly timely beliefs of the Latter-day Saints and their missionaries in North Wales
- 28 mins
- 10 Aug 2020
- City of London, St Paul's
Lockdown with the homeless community in one of the wealthiest postcodes in Britain.
- 28 mins
- 03 Aug 2020
- Elland
The Rex cinema started in 1912, still has an interval and organ, but faces a shock in 2020
- 28 mins
- 28 Mar 2020