Stories from the 5 valleys- listen to Martin’s life as a farmer in Gloucestershire, he rejoices in a few stories from before he was born – largely in the Painswick/Pitchcombe locale.
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Martin Slinger |
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| description | time | Play | |
| 1 | a vicar & a nun – oooer misses | 0:32 | |
| 2 | naked truth, a true story of nakedness. | 0:37 | |
| 3 | a mucky story of two stick in the muds | 1:03 | |
| 4 | did the earth move for these two? | 0:50 | |
| 5 | Wartime decoy factories in Edge | 0:34 | |
| 6 | WWII tanks at Edge | 1:07 | |
| 7 | Animals that get stuck in trees | 1:40 | |
| 8 | Smiths brothers & Forks’ Big Bags of Corn | 1:17 | |
| 9 | Peg Leg & the threshing drum, a corny story | 0:52 | |
| 10 | Threshing in the old days – pt 2 | 2:39 | |
| 11 | Threshing machine in narrow lanes | 2:35 | |
| 12 | more threshing machines | 3:24 | |
| 13 | Terry’s bail – poles apart. | 0:43 | |
| 14 | When the new bailer comes, there are consequences | 0:59 | |
| 15 | how to tie knots for bailing – by hand. | 0:59 | |
| 16 | the Berkley Hunt – he should have said tally-ho | 0:35 | |
| 17 | a bull gets its head stuck in a gate or two | 1:02 | |
| 18 | a bull – tries its hand (?) as a lumberjack | 0:47 | |
| 19 | a calf revived after days without water | 1:01 | |
| 20 | Walking the bull | 1:26 | |
| 21 | living with chickens in the bedroom | 1:13 | |
| 22 | how a cat deals with the unwary fox | 0:41 | |
| 23 | a new angle on where pheasants roost. | 0:57 | |
| 24 | pheasant chicks don’t want to be mown down | 0:40 | |
| 25 | all about eels and – reens | 1:03 | |
| 26 | Rammy Lamb half drowned, all character | 1:13 | |
| 27 | horses that don’t like wasps | 0:56 | |
| 28 | Fly – the bestest dog in all Gloucestershire | 1:37 | |
| 29 | the tree that wouldn’t budge | 1:35 | |
| 30 | about cider apples – make mine a pint. | 2:33 | |
| 31 | Martin is nearly buried alive | 0:51 | |
| 32 | Martin cheats serious injury again. | 0:53 | |
| 33 | the Electricity drum that goes walkabouts | 0:46 | |
| 34 | Jack Chandler’s nail gun, don’t try this at home. | 0:37 | |
| 35 | don’t do this either! | 0:41 | |
| 36 | the milk wagon ice cannon | 1:25 | |
| 37 | false teeth lost and found – ugh! | 0:39 | |
| 38 | a jug of oil that rode to market on the vehicle bumper | 0:36 | |
| 39 | a fire engine leaps the bridge without a driver! | 0:41 | |
| 40 | a ghost story – it just ghost to show! | 0:53 | |
| 41 | Gloucester prisoners at a working party | 0:52 | |
| 42 | Grandmother’s postcard, goes the pretty route. | 0:54 | |
| 43 | how to trim a hedge overlooking a pond | 0:34 | |
| 44 | how to dredge that pond | 0:51 | |
| 45 | Yoss Phipps – local character | 1:31 | |
| 46 | Miss Phipps | 1:09 | |
| 47 | Frank Workman drives a bus with no brakes. | 0:58 | |
| 48 | Roy the postman – speeding on his bike | 1:09 | |
| 49 | Fred Grigsby the local blacksmith | 1:24 | |
| 50 | George Lamont & Percy Bullock – road gardeners | 0:54 | |
| 51 | Ollie Launder the wheelright | 0:55 | |
| 52 | Lewis Llewellin keeps a frightened horse calm | 1:19 | |
| 53 | Mrs Shifney the newspaper lady | 0:42 | |
| 54 | trapped by the singing winch wire | 1:04 | |
| 55 | the old Stroud pin trade & setting them in cards | 1:02 | |
| 56 | an old story of an abortionist from Stroud in NY | 0:59 | |
| 57 | a funeral that went rather wrong | 0:50 | |
| 58 | how “Hanging Piece” got its name | 0:33 | |
| 59 | Kestrel 0 Seagull 1 | 1:16 | |
| 60 | Lewis Llewllyn busy at home too | 0:41 | |
| 61 | Hedge-Laying in Gloucestershire | 2:15 | |
| 62 | You know what faggots are? Well listen here – they may not be what you think. | 1:27 | |
| 63 | Tom Margison local traffic jam! And before the breathalizer! | 2:24 | |
| 64 | Tom Margison local vet does TB testing, with help from a young Martin! | 2:15 | |
| 65 | How we shopped in the 1950’s. | 1:27 | |
| 66 | Find out why the vicar of Painswick didn’t like marrying you on a Saturday afternoon. | 0:39 | |