That was the question Margaret Mills posed today as she took us back to South Woodham Ferrers, in the mid read more

If you’re planning on selling your house, you never know quite what prospective buyers your estate agent might be bringing read more

I guess I’m lucky but I look back on the days of my childhood as days of innocence, and unless read more

  For a second day running I was joined by Margaret Mills, who for two weeks in succession, took us read more

With so many meetings now taking place on line, we are all in hock to technology. Last week news emerged read more

Here we are at the start of another week of lockdown and today we started with a look at a read more

How much would you be willing to pay for Adolf Hitler’s toilet seat – always assuming you’d want it anyway? read more

The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this week concerned the town of Witham between the 16th and 18th centuries when read more

Why on earth would establishing a cake shop in a Sussex town provoke a deluge of complaints and hate mail? read more

We started out today by telling you about the woman who launched a frenzied attack on her husband after she failed read more

For today’s feature MARGARET MILLS explained how King Henry VIII’s “Mr Fixit”, Sir Thomas Moore is connected with our county. read more

Well that’s the first of the two worst months of the year out of the way! So what gems do read more

Today we reported on a story you’re unlikely to hear in the mainstream media anytime soon. Haim Eshed, a professor read more

Albeit 2 days late, Margaret Mills spent time today looking at an Essex born folklorist, ENID PORTER from Westcliff on Sea, read more

Now I’ve heard of some daft reasons that people have come up with for breaching lockdown – but this really read more

The subject chosen today by Margaret Mills for her BYGONES feature was Terling Place and one of it’s former occupants Lord read more

There’s been a lot of talk suggesting that the on-going lockdowns are resulting in ever more people finding ways of read more

On today’s programme I got to chat with local author, GRAHAME McQUALE, who is in the midst of writing a read more

Why do you suppose the driver of a smart car was singled out to be pulled over by police? Turns read more

For today’s historical feature, Margaret Mills looked at the lives of Essex based father and son cartographers, John Walker Snr read more