Wallington Hall and Gardens: the Fenwicks & the Blacketts, who owned it; ‘England’s Greatest Gardener - Capability Brown’.

The Bronze Age beginnings of the Summerhill in Blaydon; the Stella Hall Estate; the Cowen family - progressive business owners and politicians, and the restored water mill at Path Head.

The Penshaw Monument and Radical Jack; the story of the Lambton Worm; follies

The Felling Colliery and pit disaster; the four-poster bed tomb of three small children, and the mystery of the other couple commemorated on the memorial.

The story of Lindisfarne, Inner Farne & the other islands; Viking raiders; the heroic story of Grace Darling

How Newcastle upon Tyne got its name; the history of the castle & the story of Robert Curthose, son of William the Conqueror.

The history of Tynemouth, its Priory, the later Castle that sat on the monastery land, and its surprising connection to the Norman Conquest.

The history of Barnard Castle

The story of Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, and why it's so important; the Garden and its Poison Garden, the Percy family, and the hero knight, Harry Hotspur.

St Cuthbert, the legends of the cathedral, the Norman architects and the Prince Bishops.