Deepdale Podcast

Welcome to this month's episode of Deepdale Podcast, our North Norfolk magazine programme. Hosted by Jason Borthwick, it’s June 2026, and in this episode Jason and his guest Nick Acheson (aka The Marsh Tit) enjoy the surroundings of a North Norfolk wood, while they chat about Nick's passion for the natural world. And big thanks to Oli from One Stop Nature Shop for his wildlife update. June co...

Welcome to the Deepdale Podcast, our North Norfolk magazine programme. Hosted by Jason Borthwick, it’s May 2026, and the episode starts with a snippet of the dawn chorus, which is simply stunning at this time of year. The resident blackbird was singing away, circling Jason and the microphone in an inquisitive way while he recorded. This month Jason talks to lots of North Norfolk Artists....

Welcome to this episode of the Deepdale Podcast, lovely to have your listening ears. Its April 2026, Spring is here and Easter is this weekend. This month we have a special episode recorded in the Holkham Forge with James Spedding, blacksmith and artisan.   As this beautiful part of the world begins to wake up, first up we have a wildlife update from Oli at One Stop Nature Shop, and...

Welcome back to the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine programme about North Norfolk. It’s March 2026, and this month Jason has loads of guests, including Gary Pearson a local photographer, Kate Southerland of Norfolk Oyster Shells, Ruby Goold of Girlguiding Norfolk, Richard Morris farm manager of Deepdale Farm, Stephanie Everitt of Joyful, and Debs Davison & Kate Gedge from The Nest Café Dee...

Happy Christmas everyone! It's December, so in this episode of the Deepdale Podcast, Chris and Jason bring you their annual selection of favourite albums from the year. Recommendations of some additional presents you might want to buy yourself! For 2025 there has been an exceptional amount of amazing new music, so despite Jason's best efforts, he couldn't limit Chris to the usual 12 albums for Chr...

Welcome back to the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine programme about North Norfolk. It’s September 2005, there's a blue sky, it’s a beautiful, beautiful day.   In this episode, Jason has three lovely chats, with some musicians and some wildlife enthusiasts.   Steve and Sam from the Brancaster Staithe Sea Shanty Festival chat about the festival this coming weekend, when the whole of Br...

Welcome back to the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine programme about North Norfolk. Its August 2025, the sun is shining, the temperatures are high, and the beautiful North Norfolk Coast is as stunning as ever.   This month Jason chats with two locals who love this part of the world. First up Jason joins John Thompson on the Welcome Ferry that runs out of Burnham Overy Staithe, running...

Welcome to the Deepdale Podcast, our North Norfolk magazine programme … thanks for listening in. Its July 2025, the sun is shining, school holidays are fast approaching, and North Norfolk is looking resplendent but with a few signs of overheating.   I’m Jason, and this month we chat with four more lovely people from this beautiful part of the world. First up we have Mandy Humphreys,...

Welcome to the June 2025 episode of the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine programme about North Norfolk. This month, Jason continues to meet fascinating members of the North Norfolk community. He chats with Nicky King, the coxswain of Wells-next-the-Sea RNLI, Iona Lane a musician inspired by the natural world who's playing a gig at Deepdale on 21st June, and Rosie Newport, a local artisan and passion...

What do you get when you put five artists, a bird watcher, a musician and a farmer in the same room … an episode of the Deepdale Podcast of course. It’s May 2025, and this is the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine programme about beautiful North Norfolk. In this episode Jason chats with Tobias ben Jacob about his upcoming gig at Deepdale on 17th May. Five artists taking part in North Norfolk...

It’s April 2025 and you are listening to the Deepdale Podcast, our North Norfolk magazine programme. I’m Jason, thank you for joining us. Spring is well and truly springing, the hares are dancing in the fields, the huge skies of the North Norfolk Coast are as blue as blue could be, and this has to be one of the most fabulous times of the year to visit this beautiful part of the world. Th...

An absolute pleasure to have your listening ears for our first podcast episode of 2025. Welcome to the Deepdale Podcast, our magazine podcast about the beautiful North Norfolk Coast. This month we visit two of our local museums, Cromer Museum and Sheringham Museum (The Mo) discovering the hidden treasures in these wonderful local attractions. Its clear how incredibly passionate the curators &...

An absolute pleasure to have your listening ears for our final podcast episode of 2024. As usual we celebrate great music in our December episode, with Chris’ top albums of the year. And this year he’s chosen twelve amazing albums, our 12 Albums for Christmas, and 1 EP as a stocking present. Enjoy music from India Electric Co , George Boomsma , Brown Horse , The Shackleton Trio , Annie Dressner ,...

Thanks for listening to the fifth in our collection of special Deepdale Festival Podcasts in 2024. Jason is your host for this series.   In this episode Jason chats with Lorna and Karen from The Henry Girls , who are playing on Sunday, Ross Stewart , who is playing on Friday, and Elizabeth & Jameson , who perform on Friday.   Lorna and Karen from The Henry Girls join me over the...

Thanks for listening to the fourth in our collection of special Deepdale Festival Podcasts in 2024. Jason is your host for this series.   In this episode Jason chats with Hawksley Workman from Canada, who performs on Sunday, Christina Alden & Alex Patterson from Norwich, who perform on Friday, and Christian Smith from Cambridgeshire, who performs on Saturday with his band The Heretic...

Thanks for listening to the 3rd in our collection of special Deepdale Festival Podcasts in 2024. Jason is your host for this episode.   In this episode Jason chats with Kathryn Williams and Dan Willson (aka Withered Hand) , who perform on Friday. With Polly Paulusma , who performs on Sunday. And with Jess Silk , who also performs on Sunday.   Kathryn and Dan are a relative...

Lovely to have your listening ears for the 2nd in our collection of special Deepdale Festival Podcasts in 2024. Jason is your host for this episode.   In this episode Jason chats with two of the gents from Track Dogs , Garrett (one of the Irishmen) and Robbie (the American), and to Rich from Man The Lifeboats .   Garrett and Robbie talk about how two Irishmen, an Englishman and an A...

Welcome to the first of our special Deepdale Festival Podcasts in 2024.   Chris has put together another amazing lineup for this year’s festival, so much superb music. This episode Jason chats with Skinny Lister , Sarah McQuaid and A Light Left On . They chat about touring, recording processes, up coming gigs and the music industry. All the chats are recording in the run up to Deepdale F...

Welcome to the Deepdale Podcast, this is the July 2024 episode. This month Jason chats with two local residents, who both started life in Brancaster Staithe & Burnham Deepdale , and who like Jason went off to explore the wider world and found themselves being called back to the beautiful North Norfolk Coast.   First up Jason chats with Amanda Loose, the editor of North Norfolk Living...

Welcome to this little slice of the beautiful North Norfolk Coast.   This month Farm Chat returns to Deepdale Podcast , when Jason chats with his sister Anna about all things Open Farm Sunday , rural craft workshops and how the organic cropping is going on Deepdale Farm .   And Chris joins Jason to chat through the amazing line-up he’s put together for Deepdale Festival 2024 , which take...

Hello and welcome to the Deepdale Podcast .  I’m Jason and it’s April 2024.  Thanks for listening to our little slice of North Norfolk life.  We hope that you are managing to enjoy the wonders of Spring somewhere beautiful, and that the weather is giving you both time outdoors and excuses to enjoy a local hostelry or café.   This month I headed East from Deepdale into North Nor...

Its March 2024, Deepdale has just enjoyed its annual Deepdale Hygge festival, Easter is this coming weekend, when the clocks spring 1 hour ahead, daffodils are in full bloom, the sun is making occasional appearances, hares are performing dances, and the sparrows are loving the new growth on our hedges. Spring is very definitely here.   This month Jason chats with Jake Fiennes, conservati...

Hello and welcome to the Deepdale Podcast. Jason Borthwick chats about interesting places to visit in North Norfolk. Dr David Waterhouse of the Scott Polar Research Institute tells us about the Deep History Coast. Ben and Adam from Roarr! tell us some of the history of their North Norfolk attraction. And Sophie from Holkham gives a glimpse of what’s coming up at the historic fa...

Happy New Year from the Deepdale Crew! Hope you had a fantastic festive season however busy or quiet it was, and are enjoying the start of 2024. For this month's Deepdale Podcast , we are concentrating on the wildlife & environment of the beautiful North Norfolk Coast. Huge thanks to Richard Powell (Wildlife Advisor), Steve Rowland (RSPB) and Oliver Reville (One Stop Nature Shop) for their con...

Chris and Jason from Deepdale Camping & Rooms select their favourite albums of 2023. Some of the selected artists have performed at Deepdale Festival, others are national or international artists who have caught the attention of these two avid music fans. Like the line-up of Deepdale Festival, these albums are great music with a heart of folk. 00:00 - Deepdale Podcast Theme Tune by Jess Morgan...