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More Than Words

More Than Words

By: Gary Wilson
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Exploring Britain’s furthest flung places — and the limits of one man’s knees. “More Than Words” chronicles a virtual expedition across Britain’s extremes — from the northernmost village to the southernmost settlement, with stops at the highest peak, the lowest fen, and several places that sound made up. It’s part fitness challenge, part cultural exploration, and mostly an excuse to write about obscure trivia, failed resolutions, and the joys of conditional formatting. Expect puns, ghosts, and reflections on the slow collapse of my joints.Gary Wilson Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Episode 24 - Not Throwing Away My Shot
    Mar 23 2026

    🌴 More Than Words – Episode 24: Not Throwing Away My Shot 🌴

    From Caribbean cruise confinement to Tyrone crossroads and compost-related trauma, because nothing says “walking project” like Alexander Hamilton, granite grottoes, plantation paperwork, and a smell you can’t escape.

    Featuring:

    🏝️ Nevis: tiny island, enormous history

    🎭 Alexander Hamilton: overachiever and rapper-by-proxy

    🪨 Virgin Gorda: granite boulders showing off like they’re paid per Instagram post

    🪨 Gold stones, saintly nagging, and excellent bogs

    🚧 Ambush junctions, and a café that sells tights

    👃 Cabragh: poor land, rich smell

    🧵Quakers, linen, and porridge-brand cosplay

    🐎 Waterloo: I was defeated you won the horse

    🏰 Forts taken by phishing scams

    🛍️ Scotch Street: saints, settlers, prisons, teapots, and a pub sign rebrand

    It’s cruise ship Stockholm syndrome, Founding Fathers on holiday, granite flexing, plantation geometry, linen empires, compost protests, and enough history to qualify as emotional cardio.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 23 - Show Me The Sunny
    Mar 16 2026

    ☀️📍 More Than Words – Stage 23: Show Me the Sunny 📍☀️

    One brief detour into cruise-ship excess — then straight back to what we do best: historical over-delivery, questionable decisions, and a stage so dense it should’ve come with a contents page.

    Featuring:


    🚢 A floating buffet briefly interrupts the walking

    
🏰 Plantation optimism, and the bold theory that stolen land would be fine, actually


    🧊 Drumlins: ice-age bubble-wrap


    ☠️ A village literally named “plague grave” 


    🍺 Miraculous beer taps, and medieval dairy-based divine protection


    ⚔️ Dynastic feuds: playground version


    🧀 Victorian cheese co-operatives

    You'll get massacres, monasteries, plague pits, saints with excellent miracles, and nineteen waypoints that refused to behave. Listen to this and you’ve survived the Fermanagh Mega-Stage — everything else is basically a rest day.

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    44 mins
  • Episode 22 - West Side Story
    Mar 9 2026

    🌊🗺️ More Than Words – Episode 22: West Side Story 🗺️🌊


    From British winter trudging to neon-lit Miami smugness, before plunging back into Fermanagh’s lakes, legends, and paperwork-heavy dampness — Stage 22 is what happens when walking logs develop jet lag.


    Featuring:


    🍺 Liverpool reunions: retirement smugness vs inbox trauma


    🌴 Miami Beach: art deco excess, rollerbladers, and fitness via tourism

    
🏞️ Fermanagh: where water owns the land and lets humans visit


    🧺 Kesh: wicker bridges and early-Irish flat-pack engineering

    🪨 Boa Island: war goddesses, and the world’s grimmest double act


    🏰 Castle Caldwell: defeated not by rebels, but by plants

    
📜 The Cathach: history’s bloodiest copyright dispute
🍶 Belleek pottery: famine relief turned translucent luxury

    It’s folklore, copyright wars, haunted islands, soggy borders, and enough lakes to legally classify as a water feature.

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    30 mins
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