Fond as I am of making connections, here’s an extensive series of posts on various aspects of being English:

• Watching the English
• also from Kate Fox, Headline punning
• All things considered

Some bygone sounds:

• The Archers
• Desert Island Discs, and
• By the sleepy lagoon
• The mantric Shipping forecast
• Compton Mackenzie meets Henry James
• Hancock’s half hour

Also

• A great annual ritual: Wimbledon—including yet another classic theme tune
• Gender and class: Awdry and Blyton
• Alan Bennett on hypocrisy, and on
• Going too far
• Roll-call
• Morris dancing, with Chinese parallels
• Das Land ohne Musik
• Cunk on Britain
• A Shakespeare mélange
• this succinct take on regional division
• some posh English twits
• challenges to communication
• How to be English apud Stewart Lee (“I’m English, I’m English! Wanna make something of it?”)
• Replies from the Complaints department
• The global art market
• a national treasure: the voice of Charlotte Green.

I also note this group of posts on intrepid British explorers:

• Alan Bennett overhears a Torquay couple in Egypt
• The ascent of Rum Doodle
• How to wear yellow well, with the great Ronnie Ancona
• Visiting a young “living Buddha”
• Morgan‘s mum is unimpressed by Greece
• Still with Greece: Bunnios masters not quite the right language
• The exotic travels of Phoebe Waller-Bridge
• Return of the Prophet (not), featuring the ever-readable Nigel Barley

—and, with serious respect,

• Undreamed shores.

You can find more from Messrs Bennett, Lee, and Cunk under their respective tags in the sidebar.