Stephen Roberts documents the life of Alexander Knox, Oscar-winning actor, writer, and quiet radical who made Berwick his home after McCarthyism upended his Hollywood career

Following the death of one of the most influential architects of his generation, John Grundy reflects on Sir Terry Farrell’s enduring impact on Newcastle – the city that shaped him

For more than a century the Coquet Valley’s last grocer’s shop has mirrored the valley’s people and traditions. Now, as its owners prepare to retire, Jane Pikett explores a window into history

Filming the first series of Blackadder (then entitled The Black Adder) in Alnwick in 1983, Tony Robinson had no idea his role as the dim-witted Baldrick would make him famous. Four decades on, Sir Tony tells Jane Hall about the place Northumberland still holds in his heart and its role in his new historical novel, the Anglo-Saxon epic, The House of Wolf

Dr Aron Mazel remembers his friend, colleague and internationally renowned expert in Northumbrian rock art, Dr Stan Beckensall

Brace yourself. This is a feature about death, and how we handle it. Or more particularly, how it’s handled by young husband-and-wife team Laura and Scott Clarehugh, who run the region’s first privately owned crematorium. Rosie McGlade discovers a place of peace, beauty, Spitfires and goats

In a former pharmacy in Whitley Bay, Keel Row Books opens doors to centuries past. Here, Jane Pikett discovers, owners and antiquarian book experts Alice Laverty and Anthony Smithson deal not just in rare books but in fragments of human history

Chris Bowlby reflects on the life of his son Ewan. He died aged 27, and left a remarkable legacy in his posthumously published book, Borrowed Stories: Facing Cancer with Culture

Zoe Robertson uncovers the hidden world beneath the North Sea through the eyes of Northumbrian freedivers Helen Burt and Pierre Melion

Katie Scott is one of the forces behind the beautiful Rothbury Tree Trail. She guides Rosie McGlade on the trail and offers a life lesson in grace, good living and getting things done, which she does a lot of

From Northumberland to the world’s war zones, former BBC correspondent Alastair Leithead has swapped the frontline for Portugal’s wild Atlantic coast, where he and his wife Ana have created an off-grid travel retreat powered by the same grit and determination that shaped his reporting career and hers in international diplomacy

Rosie McGlade meets former Hexham lad and world-renowned theatre puppeteer Toby Olié.

As printmaker Jo Westgate brings St Wilfrid’s spiritual journey to life in a striking new visual commission for Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, Jane Pikett discovers her richly layered work blends history, landscape and family to capture the whispered imprint of the past on the present

Inspired by a National Trust tribute to women artists, Janet Hardie reflects on her grandmother Mary, Lady Trevelyan’s monumental embroidery of the Trevelyan legend, which hangs at Wallington

In the quiet borderlands between Northumberland and Scotland, Mark Swearman of Bamburgh Bee Company tends his hives with reverence, patience, and a sense of purpose he is now passing on to others, as Jane Pikett discovers

The Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, is the only bishop to have publicly called for the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury (he went) and his number two, the Archbishop of York (he didn’t).

TV’s Flying Archaeologist Ben Robinson has done as much as anyone to showcase the region on television. He tells Jane Hall about his enduring love for England’s spectacular border county

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to Stewart Bonney, founder of The Northumbrian back in 1987, who has died.

A routine dog walk turns into an otter rescue expedition for Rosie McGlade, and leads to the discovery of the wildlife heroes looking after sick and injured animals.

Jane Pikett goes behind the scenes at the Lit & Phil to learn about the ancient craft of bookbinding.