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.

BBC Future • 15th February 2022

The animals that detect disasters

For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes?...

BBC Future • 16th December 2021

The Buildings Made From Rubbish

Extracting materials is wreaking havoc on the planet. Could the world's growing mounds of waste hold the key to sustainable construction? Norman Miller gets digging.

Futurism • 20th November 2021

NSFW: Gaze Upon the Horrid Melting Flesh of Neural Network Porn

We’re pleased to bring you a different version of Futurism, containing stories from the horizon of hedonism. Welcome to The Science of Pleasure. Norman Miller meets the artist exploring the strange visions that result when AI learning programs gaze at porn.

BBC Travel • 27th July 2021

Scotland's mysterious ancient artificial islands

While no one is sure exactly why these ingenious islets were constructed, they provide a unique window on human life all the way back to Neolithic times in Britain.

BBC Culture • 22nd May 2021

Brighton: The unlikely birthplace of cinema

While Hollywood was still an anonymous LA suburb, one British seaside city was busy inventing the "language" of cinema, during a glorious decade from the late years of Queen Victoria's reign into the start of the 20th Century.

BBC Style • 5th May 2021

Tartan: The misunderstood icon of 'Scottishness'

Tartan is updating its image in the 21st Century, with new patterns exploring issues around climate change, homelessness – and World War Two dive bombers, writes Norman Miller.

BBC Travel • 1st May 2021

The UK seafood that could send you to jail

On the English Channel Island of Guernsey, people have spent centuries gathering a particular prized mollusc. Today its harvesting is wrapped in strict rules - that led to the world's first underwater arrest...

BBC Culture • 3rd March 2021

Cryptic crosswords: A puzzling British obsession

Norman Miller looks at the history of a very British form of language play..

BBC.com • 17th February 2021

The forgotten foods that could excite our tastebuds

Just 12 plant species and five types of animal make up 75% of the world's food. But at least 30,000 of the 350,000 known plant species on our planet are edible, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Norman Miller looks at a world of new crops that could transform the global diet.

BBC Culture • 12th November 2020

The theremin: The strangest instrument ever invented?

The theremin sometimes seems like an instrument from Earth’s future or another world. Its music seems conjured from nothing, notes and tones teased and manipulated by hypnotic movements of hand and fingers through air. Meet the only musical instrument controlled entirely without physical contact.

Reader's Digest • 24th September 2020

Sisters Are Brewing It For Themselves

A new generation of brewsters are returning women to their historic place in the forefront of beer making.

BBC.com • 10th September 2020

A new island of hope rising from the Indian Ocean

Scattered across the Arabian Sea, south-west of Sri Lanka and India, the Maldives present a dreamy, tropical idyll to travellers from all over the world. Yet perhaps no other nation faces an environmental threat quite as serious as the Maldives. NORMAN MILLER explores the island nation's pioneering response.