Hosted by Alexander Rennie · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 100 episodes
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Your host attempts to visit the largest thousand settlements in the United Kingdom - before it flies to pieces
Alexander Rennie hosts Forgotten Towns, a society show with 100 episodes published.
Series 12 Episode 11 - LARGS (# 1,000 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 11,260 (Rank # 858) The show that sees us reach the end of the trail: Will your narrator escape with sobriety or dignity? Will
Series 12 Episode 10 - GOUROCK (# 999 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 10,350 (Rank # 909) An emergency episode of '999' heralds the 999th town on our list. MUSIC 999 BBC1 Theme Tune - Roger Bolton
Series 12 Episode 9 - GREENOCK (# 998 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 42,680 (Rank # 249) Our antepenultimate excursion takes us 'doon the watter' to Sugaropolis. MUSIC Music Box Dancer - Frank Mi
Series 12 Episode 8 - PORT GLASGOW (# 997 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 14,620 (Rank # 697) Get yourself filled in on Port Glasgow's shipbuilding as we go diving for pearls of wisdom. MUSIC Musi
Series 12 Episode 7 - BARRHEAD (# 996 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 17,610 (Rank # 592) Save your thankses; we're flushing out Shanks's... and other elements of Barrhead's industrial past. MUSIC
Series 12 Episode 6 - NEWTON MEARNS (# 995 Visited 25/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 26,600 (Rank # 401) Bagpiping suburban fact into travelogue fiction. MUSIC Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills Scotland The Br
Series 12 Episode 5 - BONHILL (# 994 Visited 24/08/2025) Dunbartonshire, Scotland : Population 9,050 (Rank # 988) Is the Leven going to get us down, or will we distract ourselves with the not-so-great library of Alexandr
Series 12 Episode 4 - ERSKINE (# 993 Visited 24/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 15,510 (Rank # 658) The one where we pay tribute to the late Anne Gregg, for no obvious reason. MUSIC Heartsong - Gordon Giltra
Series 12 Episode 3 - JOHNSTONE (# 992 Visited 23/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 16,090 (Rank # 639) What local lad Gordon Ramsay might've made of my black pudding supper is anyone's guess and, as he'd prob
Series 12 Episode 2 - GIFFNOCK (# 991 Visited 23/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 12,300 (Rank # 802) Don't panic! My AI companion makes an unexpected return to the fray, but Giffnock has coped with worse in
Series 12 Episode 1 - CLARKSTON (# 990 Visited 23/08/2025) Renfrewshire, Scotland : Population 9,860 (Rank # 939) The final season gets underway in this slice of Scotland's suburbia where things can occasionally get expl
Series 11 Episode 9 - TEIGNMOUTH (# 989 Visited 14/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 15,597 (Rank # 652) We pay homage to doomed single-handed sailor Donald Crowhurst as we, like him, wave goodbye to England for the f
We find simmering local hostility beyond the elegant wildfowl and picture postcard scenery of this Devon seaside resort.
Series 11 Episode 7 - KINGSTEIGNTON (# 987 Visited 14/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 10,857 (Rank # 877) We find out all about the King's Town on the Teign... or Kingsteignton as we like to call it, to save time in
Series 11 Episode 6 - NEWTON ABBOT (# 986 Visited 14/04/2025)Devon, England : Population 26,951 (Rank # 395)What links Charles I, Serge Pizzorno, William III and David Vine? The answer is Newton Abbot, and you may now ad
Series 11 Episode 5 - BRIXHAM (# 985 Visited 13/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 16,977 (Rank # 607) Ever confuse Brixham with Brixton? Today's trip to the seaside helps identify some basic differences. MUSIC Tubular
Series 11 Episode 4 - PAIGNTON (# 984 Visited 11/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 66,878 (Rank # 142) Amidst beery distractions of the nearby CAMRA AGM and a visit to Paignton's own brewery, we take a stroll around t
Series 11 Episode 3 - IVYBRIDGE (# 983 Visited 11/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 11,727 (Rank # 827) Find out whether one hour's parking is enough for us to properly get to grips with the 'Gateway to the Moors'. MU
Series 11 Episode 2 - PLYMSTOCK (# 982 Visited 11/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 25,610 (Rank # 419) Do you think you could have bettered our host on the 'Plymstock Charity Shop Challenge'? MUSIC Classical Gas - Ma
Series 11 Episode 1 - TAVISTOCK (# 981 Visited 11/04/2025) Devon, England : Population 12,504 (Rank # 795) This sunny season opener sees booksellers battling for my custom as we return to South West England. MUSIC Classi
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