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Travels through the herriverse
Explore the world of strange wonders that’s revealed at the interfaces between mankind and the herring. Six, monthly episodes take you where few other podcasts venture.
Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring
aka The Herripedia
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SALT
An 8,000 year history of salt and salt pickling, paying particular attention to the preservation of herrings by the German Hanse, the Dutch and the British.
SARDINES
The sardine in cans, on the slab and in popular culture; the limits of self-identification for herrings and non-European pilchards
SCANIA FISHERY
The story of the first great empire-shaping herring fishery together with historical and scientific speculations on its rise and its fall
SCHMALTZ HERRING
An attempted exploration of exactly what this is, despite disagreement among its advocates and loose definition amongst suppliers
SHOALS
On an evolutionary strategy aimed at dealing with predation, which didn't imagine the purse seine net or the unregulated pursuit of profit
SHOALS OF HERRING, THE
Written for the BBC's Radio Ballads, a song by Ewan McColl which has entered the traditional music repertoire and is sung by many
SILVER HERRING
Somewhere between the modern bloater and the golden herring, popular in the Mediterranean - particularly in Italy
SINGING THE FISHING
Always at the forefront of documentary innovation, the herring swims through the great Radio Ballad of 1960
SMITH, ADAM: WEALTH OF NATIONS
In which we explore the curious errors and omissions in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations herring thinking
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: GERRY SKEWS
A new Lowestoft smoker, an old smokehouse and red herrings among the kippers, bloaters and many other hot and cold smoked products
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: WILL BUCKENHAM
One of the last red herring smokers, Will Buckenham in Lowestoft produces these, along with bloaters and kippers in the country's oldest working smokehouse
SPAWNING
On the spawning preferences of the herring, together with a list of the spawning grounds for the main Eastern Atlantic populations