BBC Culture • 30th December 2023 The Wicker Man: The disturbing cult British classic that can't be defined Crime thriller, disturbing fantasy, or folk horror – the 1973 cult hit The Wicker Man refuses categorisation. Norman Miller explores its complexities.
The Sunday Times • 18th December 2023 The European city with cutting-edge art and music — just an hour away Springboard for pioneering bands such as NEU! and Kraftwerk — as well as Germany’s finest contemporary artists including Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter — Düsseldorf brims with creative energy alongside its seven centuries of history.
BBC Travel • 7th November 2023 Essen: Germany's 'ugly duckling' city success Located in the heart of western Germany's long-time industrial Ruhr region, the city of Essen spent much of the past 150 years marred by pollution, tainted by filthy mines and belching factories and lined by poisoned waterways. But a remarkable transformation has seen Essen go from being Germany's ugly duckling to being a European pathfinder for urban ecological transformation...
BBC Travel • 24th October 2023 Corsica's Trinicellu: Europe's magnificent €50 train It may not be well known to most visitors, but Corsica offers one of Europe's finest - and cheapest - train odysseys...
Daily Telegraph • 18th July 2023 ‘If Edinburgh had a love child with Brighton' Norman Miller spotlights Dunedin as a wonderful - but overlooked - New Zealand city getaway.
Hakai Magazine • 12th July 2023 The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet NORMAN MILLER picks up the story of the alarming - but overlooked - source of global marine pollution.
Delicious • 24th May 2023 Style By The Sea Fringed with harbours and Baltic inlets, Helsinki is stuffed with glorious architecture and home to world-renowned design. As Norman Miller discovers, the food is elegantly put together too...
Daily Telegraph • 20th May 2023 Why West Wittering’s secret seaside neighbour is an ideal summer escape Norman Miller spotlights a fascinating West Sussex coastal hideaway away from the crowds.
BBC.com • 15th May 2023 A new life for London's lost rivers Few visitors know that London has 640km of waterways – and there's a serious movement taking place to restore these "blue corridors" to their former glory.... Buried rivers have returned to the light, while others are being rewilded in ways that will improve the lives and environment of millions of people.
SilverKris • 4th April 2023 Meet New Zealand's Maori winemakers There are powerful distractions when sampling wine at The Canyon, the seductive wave-shaped black timber tasting room at Tarras Vineyards. While savouring its award-winning pinot noir, admire how its curves echo the backdrop of the muscular Central Otago mountains, framing a wide green canyon below. And then reflect on how the wine in your glass is also a liquid window into inspirational indigenous values.
BBC Travel • 22nd March 2023 Toheroa: A fabled shellfish that nearly vanished As food obsessions go, how about the American who allegedly tried to buy New Zealand in order to gain exclusive rights to a special soup? Norman Miller delves into the toheroa story.
BBC Travel • 23rd September 2022 How Brighton & Hove became Britain's greenest food city Long known as a progressive beacon, Brighton & Hove is quickly becoming a global model of food sustainability.
BBC Travel • 22nd August 2022 Finland's rising capital of food I got my first taste of why Turku – the oldest city in Finland – has become a new Nordic food hotspot as I sampled my way through its 19th-Century Market Hall. The handsome red-brick building is set a block back from the River Aura, which flows through town and out into the Turku Archipelago – the world's largest archipelago, where around 40,000 islands stretch across the Gulf of Bothnia towards Sweden.
UPM.COM • 20th August 2022 Three pioneering cities, one sustainable future: how lives will change if cities realize their climate goals It’s the 2030s. Through bold decisions and inventive technologies, three cities have reached the ambitious climate goals they set a decade earlier. From bike highways to fish lifts, here’s what urban life looks like in the age of kept promises.
BBC Travel • 29th July 2022 The ancient French town of floating gardens Carved out of the River Somme's marshy hinterland, the Hortillonnages is made up of 110km of slender canals that have led Amiens to be dubbed "the Venice of the North".
BBC Culture • 22nd July 2022 Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces? What happens when an artwork starts to decay – or is deliberately designed to? Norman Miller explores how galleries and museums meet the challenge of 'inherent vice'.
Reclaim • 11th July 2022 Break With Tradition It’s been 100 years since the birth of modernism and its new way of looking at the world. Celebrate with a city break and see some of the best architecture of the era.
BBC Forgotten Foods • 5th July 2022 The UK's heritage apple renaissance An alarming 81% of traditional apple orchards have vanished from Britain, but activists are planting British heritage varieties in community plots in all shapes and sizes.
BBC Future • 7th April 2022 The Dutch city testing the future of urban life With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give us a glimpse of what living in cities could be like in years to come?
BBC Countryfile • 6th April 2022 A Weaver's Life Sussex maker Annemarie O'Sullivan harvests her own willow withies, from which she weaves beautiful baskets inspired by ancient traditions.