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Record of Lifetime Activities Pursued
Mountaineering
A summary of my Mountaineering Record
The Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye
My chosen header photo for this subject reveals my long-term favourite UK mountain range, the Cuillin Ridge on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.
I have climbed all of its individual summits many times, but I have traversed the entire ridge end-to-end in one day only once in each direction, since it was always difficult to find anyone else to accompany me on such a lengthy and time-consuming challenge, and the Cuillin Ridge is the only UK mountaineering range that I have been reluctant to solo. It has only one summit that is classed as reachable by walkers (as opposed to climbers), which is undoubtedly why it is the only summit with a trig point.The traverse also includes an unavoidable abseil.
On the Cuillin Ridge
How it all started
I took up an interest in the mountains while still at school in Leicester. I joined the local climbing club and spent several weekends with them in the UK’s mountain ranges. They taught me rock climbing and it was on one of their weekends that I led my first 'Very Severe' rock-climb, called 'A Eliminate', on Dow Crag, Coniston.
During the long break between school and university in 1962 I took part in a two-week training course in alpinism in the Ötztal Alps with instruction provided by Austrian Guides. They taught us step-cutting, up, down and across slopes, all forms and methods of using crampons, crevasse self-rescue using prusik loops, assisted crevasse rescue by those on the surface, moving together roped up, belaying techniques on rock, on snow and on ice. together with avalanche and crevasse awareness. The summits traversed included Wildspitze (see photo below), Weisskugel, Similaun, Hochvernagspitze, Hinterer Brochkogel, Vorderer Brochkogel, Hintere Schwarze, Grosser Ramolkogel, and Scalfkogel. This list includes 7 of the 10 highest summits in Austria. It might amuse you to learn that it predated the introduction of climbing helmets and climbing harnesses. I still have the ice-axe I bought for the occcasion, an Aschenbrenner Fuhrerpickel. (The boots I bought for that occasion were Hawkins Olympics, and were the most uncomfrtable boots I have ever worn.)
Wildspitze
The following summer in 1963 I took part in a two week continuation training couse in the Glockner area of the Austrian Alps, which picked up on what we had been taught the summer before and consolidated everything. The summits climbed included Grossglockner, (see photo below), Glocknerwand, Sonnblick, Hoffmanspitze and Grosses Weisbachhorn, which added 2 more to my tally of Austria’s 10 highest summits, leaving only the Grossvenediger still to climb (49 years later, leading an unguided AAC(UK) party).
Grossglockner
[In both of these two expeditions to the Alps, flying out and back was not an available option, the only way was by overnight sleeper train. On both occasions and on both outbound and return journeys, once we were on the continent, we changed engines twice, using diesel locomotives for the first and the third sections, and steam locomotives for the middle section through Germany. How many of you, dear readers, have ever been on a package holiday to the Alps travelling by steam train?]
That marked the last time I ever climbed anything with a guide.
Acting as a mountaineering club instructor:
- In January 1965 in snow-covered Snowdonia I led parties up the North Face of Grib Goch, up Nameless Cwm onto the Glyders, up Tryfan via its North Ridge, and finally up Snowdon via Central Trinity Gully.
- In April 1965 in snow-covered Scotland, I led parties up Central Gully on Bidean nam Bian (in bad weather), which was my first ascent of anything in the Scottish Highlands, followed by Carn Mor Dearg to Ben Nevis, the Aonach Eagach ridge and finally Aonach Beag and Aonach Mor.
- In August 1965 in the Pennine Alps, I led parties up Mont Collon via its West Ridge, the L'Eveque Traverse, the Petit Dents de Veisivi Traverse, and finally the Zinal Rothorn Traverse, up the Rothorngrat and down the Bosses Arete, my first 4,000m peak.
And so it went on thereafter, year by year, but now that I am in my 80's I am past repeating it.
The British Isles
I have reached the summits of all of the 3,000 ft mountains in the British Isles: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The introduction of GPS devices has enabled the heights of summits to be measured more accurately than was indicated on OS maps, so there are now agreed to be fewer than were previously accepted.
My favourite one-day ramble in Wales in my younger years was definitely traversing the 14 Welsh Three Thousands, invariably from Pen-y-Pass to the Aber roadhead, completing it on 19 occasions.
My favourite one-day ramble in England was undoubtedly the Yorkshire Three Peaks: Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent, since I have completed the circuit of all three on no fewer than 40 occasions, spread over several decades. I was a long-term member of a caving club with a hut near the route, so if I had spare time with good weather, I would often seize the opportunity and drive up there to solo them. Having done it so often, I consider myself an expert at choosing the optimum route. Traditionally, the start and end point is Horton-in-Ribblesdale, but there are seven good reasons for choosing the Ribblehead road junction, instead, and proceding anti-clockwise.
My favourite one-day ramble in Scotland was unquestionably the Cuillin Ridge, completed end-to-end in one day on just two occasions.
I was one of a party of three that in just one week in June 2016 completed all the eight 3000' peaks in England, then the eleven 4000' peaks in Scotland and finally the fifteen 3000' peaks in Wales while squeezing in the ‘3 Peaks Challenge’ within 24 hrs in the middle, without ever exceeding road speed limits, a total of 36 peaks. It was most certainly my 'Mountaineering Swan-Song'.
My UK mountaineering log is far too long to be included here.
The European Alps
I have climbed all of the 10 highest mountains in Austria and very many mountains in the French, Italian and Swiss Alps, all of them (except for 9 of Austria's highest 10) in unguided parties, nearly always as party leader. The highest in the Alps was obviously Mont Blanc, over which I led an unguided party on the 31st of July 1980.
Mont Blanc
The Himalayas
In 1998, my wife Mary joined me for a long trek through the Himalayas, but no mountains were climbed.
The Andes
In 1992 in Bolivia as a member of a Royal Air Force Mountaineering Association (RAFMA) party, I relegated Mont Blanc to its current position as merely my 13th highest summit.
A key attraction of the Bolivian Andes is that there is (almost always) no wind and no clouds, therefore no weather!
Before you consider following in our footsteps, please reflect on the truism that mountain rescue insurance only pays for it, it does not ‘provide’ it, and it doesn’t exist in the Bolivian Andes. This was why one of the mountaineers in our party was an RAF Doctor carrying a comprehensive medical kit, and why we carried a light-weight stretcher in the party, (which was fortunately never needed). Furthermore, several of us had previously been RAF Mountain Rescue Team members.
You also need to understand that the principal goal of the military in time of peace is to prepare for war. This necessitates encouraging military personnel to plan and take part in challenging high-risk activities to give them the necessary mind-set and experience, and why such activities are fully financed by HMG with none of the time taken coming out of ones annual holiday entitlement, since it is regarded as military training.
All dialogue with the Bolivians must be in Spanish, since no-one in the South American continent seems to have any reason to learn English, presumably becasue few if any Brits visit it. The British Embassy in La Paz set up a meeting for us at their Embassy with a senior official of Club Andino Boliviano (CAB) and one of the Embassy’s interpreters. That enabled us to set up transport to the mountains and the provision of porters and llamas to transport our kit between road-heads and base camps. Civilian parties must include a competent Spanish linguist, but they would be unlikely to enjoy as much 'pull' with the CAB as was managed by the Britosh Embassy.
My Overseas Mountaineering Log:
| DATE | LOCATION | ROLE | THE SUMMITS REACHED |
| Aug 62 2 Weeks | Austria | trainee | Wildspitze, Weisskugel, Similaun, Hochvernagspitze Hinterer Brochkogel, Vorderer Brochkogel, Hinterer Schwarze, Grosser Ramolkogel, Scalfkogel |
| Aug 63 2 Weeks | Austria | trainee | Grossglockner, Glocknerwand, Sonnblick, Hoffmanspitze Grosser Weisbachhorn |
| 1 Aug 65 | Pennine Alps | leader | Mont Collon |
| 3 Aug 65 | Pennine Alps | leader | L'Eveque Traverse |
| 6 Aug 65 | Pennine Alps | leader | Petit Dents de Veisivi Traverse |
| 10 Aug 65 | Pennine Alps | leader | Zinal Rothorn Traverse |
| 16 Aug 72 | Pennine Alps | leader | Le Besso and Mont Blanc de Moming |
| 9 Aug 78 | Bernina | leader | Glushant |
| 11 Aug 78 | Bernina | leader | Piz Morteratsch |
| 12 Aug 78 | Bernina | leader | Piz Bernina |
| 15 Aug 78 | Bernina | leader | Munt Pers |
| 16 Aug 78 | Bernina | leader | Piz Palu and Bellavista |
| 24 Jul 80 | Pennine Alps | leader | Pyramid do Tacul |
| 28 Jul 80 | Pennine Alps | leader | Dent du Geant |
| 31 Jul 80 | Pennine Alps | leader | Mont Blanc via Dome de Gouter |
| 27 Jul 81 | Pennine Alps | leading through | Tour Ronde, North Face |
| 20 Jul 82 | Dauphine | leading through | Aiguille Dibona, voie Boell |
| 21 Jul 82 | Dauphine | co-leader | Tete du Rouget |
| 23 Jul 82 | Dauphine | co-leader | Pic Nord des Cavales, Arete Sud |
| 24 Jul 82 | Dauphine | co-leader | Tete Nord du Replat, Tete Sud du Replat |
| 27 Jul 82 | Dauphine | co-leader | Les Bans, Pic Orentasl, Arete Oriental |
| 15 Aug 83 | Zermatt | leader | Trifthorn |
| 16 Aug 83 | Zermatt | leader | Zinal Rothorn |
| 19 Aug 83 | Zermatt | leader | Allalinhorn |
| 20 Aug 83 | Zermatt | leader | Alphubel |
| 23 Aug 83 | Zermatt | leader | Dufourspitze |
| 20 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Wilja Llojeta, 5244m |
| 21 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Jankho Huvo, 5512m |
| 23 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Nigruni, 5468m |
| 24 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Culin Thojo, 5268m |
| 25 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Jiskha Pata, 5508m, & Cerro Jachcha Pata, 5424m |
| 27 May 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Cerro Mullu Apacula, 5366m |
| 4 Jun 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Viluyo Jankhouma, 5540m |
| 7 Jun 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Jankopiti, 5875m |
| 11 Jun 92 | Bolivian Andes | solo | Jankhouma, 6427m, my first 21,000 footer |
| 20 Jun 92 | Bolivian Andes | equal pair | Illimani, 6440m, my second 21,000 footer |
| 2 Sep 92 | Dolomites | rock climbing | 1st Sella Tower, South Face, (Trenka) |
| 3 Sep 92 | Dolomites | rock climbing | 3rd Sella Tower, West Face, (Jahn) |
| 4 Sep 92 | Dolomites | rock climbing | Funf Fingerspitze, Punta Della Cinque Dita |
| 6 Sep 92 | Dolomites | rock climbing | Pic di Ciavezes, Old Michelezzi Route |
My Klettersteig (Via Ferrata) Log
| DATE | LOCATION | ROLE | KLETTERSTEIGS (VIA FERRATAS) |
| 4 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Brigantia Tridentina, Pisciadu |
| 5 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Possnecker, Piz Sella, Grabo, Miaro Boqua and Zwischenkofel |
| 7 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Sas Songher |
| 8 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Plattkofel |
| 9 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Ill Collac |
| 10 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Marmalada West Ridge |
| 11 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | St Martino di Castrozza |
| 12 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Bolver Lugli, Cima Della Vezzana |
| 15 Aug 85 | Dolomites | co-leader | Vajolet Tower, Torre Winkler |
| 5 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | VF della Alleghesi |
| 6 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | VF Attilio Tissi |
| 7 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | VF Sentiero Bernini |
| 10 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | Via della Bochette |
| 12 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | Possnecker |
| 15 Aug 86 | Dolomites | leader | VF Osker-Schuster |
| 29 Jun 04 | Bavaria | trainee | Hindelanger Klettersteig |
| 30 Jun 04 | Austria | party member | Seeben Klettersteig |
| 1 Jul 04 | Austria | leader | Leiner Klettersteig |
| 1 Jul 04 | Austria | party member | Rheinhart Schistel Klettersteig |
| 2 Jul 04 | Austria | party member | Crazy Eddie Klettersteig |
| 3 Jul 04 | Austria | solo | Mindelheim & Northern Schafalpenkopf Klettersteig |
| 22 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Oscar Schuster (Sasso Piatto) |
| 23 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Brigata Tridentina (Kl Piscidu) |
| 24 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Del Finanzieri (Colac) |
| 25 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Delle Mesules (Kl Possnecker) |
| 26 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Marmalada West Ridge, descending glacier |
| 27 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Cesare Piazzetta (Piz Boe) |
| 28 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Della Trincee (La Mesola) |
| 29 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Ettore Bovero (Col Rosa) |
| 30 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Michielli Strobel (Punta Fiammes) |
| 31 Jul 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Merlone (Cima del Cadin de NE) |
| 1 Aug 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Giovanni Lipella (Tofana de Rozes) |
| 2 Aug 07 | Dolomites | leader | VF Tomaselli (Punta Sud) |
| 7 Aug 16 | Dolomites | party member | VF Oscar Schuster (Sasso Piatto |
| 8 Aug 16 | Dolomites | party member | VF Brigatta Tridentina (Kl Pisciado) |
| 9 Aug 16 | Dolomites | party member | VF del Finanzieri (Colac) |
| 10 Aug 16 | Dolomites | party member | VF delle Mesules (Kl Possnecker) |
| 17 Aug 16 | Dolomites | party member | VF Maria e Andrea Ferrara a Ra Bujela |
My involvement with the Military
both with the RAF and the ACF
The Royal Air Force
I served as an Officer in the Engineering Branch of the RAF for 20 years between 1975 and 1995. My first posting after commissioning was to RAF Kinloss, where the Admin Wing noted from my records that I was a qualified and experienced mountaineer, and immediately made me Deputy Officer-Commanding the RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team. This enabled me to join the team on all weekends when I was free, going to a multitude of different locations in the Scottish highlands. A finer, fitter and friendlier bunch of mountaineers, I have never found anywhere, they were excellent company.
On both Saturdays and Sundays we split up into groups and headed off to bag Munros. I know I climbed a lot of Munros with them, but I carelessly never recorded them, so when a decade later, living in England, I decided to climb all of the 511 Scottish Munros and Tops, I had to start again from scratch. That’s life!
I was able to make a positive contribution to the Team, since as a life-long teetotaler, I became the duty minibus driver every Saturday evening, when we drove from that weekend's campsite to a pub and back.
The most significant thing that the Mountain Rescue Team failed to do, was to brainwash me into never climbing Scottish mountains in a smaller party size than four, undoubtedly dictated by higher authority. When I look back on my log of the 511 Scottish Munros and Tops, 48% were soloed, and since this took place before the current reliance on GPS navigation devices, it relied completely on maps and a compass. I have to say that the finest way to hone map-reading skills is definitely to solo Munros, navigating with a map and compass. But I must admit, however, that I always chose occasions with excellent weather forecasts and good visibility, which are easy to choose if you are soloing.
The RAF Mountaineering Association (RAFMA)
I joined RAFMA as soon as I joined the RAF, and enjoyed taking part in a lot of mountaineering events with fellow RAFMA members in the UK, and several Joint Services Alpine Meets (JSAMs). It was on a JSAM that I led an unguided RAF party up Mont Blanc on the 31st of July 1980.
It was also on a RAFMA expedition in 1992 held in the Bolivian Andes, that I relegated Mont Blanc to become merely my 13th highest summit.
I spent 6 years as RAFMA’s Treasurer, taking over a hand-written cash-book and hand-written ledgers, together with a membership database consisting of a card index file. I computerized everything. I subsequently served as RAFMA’s Chairman for 3 years.
The Joint Services Adventure Training (JSAT) Scheme
'The JSAT scheme provides training in a wide range of adventurous activities, freely available to all at no cost, and with none of the time taken on the courses coming out of one’s annual leave entitlement. I made the most of these opportunities, thoroughly 'milking' the system and qualifying as listed below:
- Summer Mountain Leader
- Winter Mountain Leader
- Alpine Mountain Leader
- Rock Climbing Instructor
- Klettersteig (Via Ferrata) Leader
- Downhill Skiing Instructor to the BASI Central Theme
- Ski Touring Guide
- Caving Guide
- Royal Yachting Association Day Skipper
- Sub-Aqua Dive Supervisor
The Army Cadet Force (ACF)
I left the RAF with a wealth of adventure training qualifications that I wanted to further amortize, so I decided to join the Cadet Forces. I chose the Army Cadets over the Air Cadets or Sea Cadets since I correctly deduced that they would be more interested in mountaineering.
I became a member of the ACF County Headquarters staff with the rank of Captain.
Army Cadets, boys and girls in the secondary school age range 12 to 17, were a delight to work with. They knew that if they stepped out of line they would be thrown out, so they were always on their best behavior. On two separate occasions cadets came up to me and said that the thing they enjoyed most was the discipline that we enforced, discipline that they said the never received at home or at school, and which they very much enjoyed. I considered this a sad reflection on today’s society.
I occasionally taught rock climbing to a team of 6 cadets at a time on Stanage Edge in the Peak District, setting up 3 adjacent running belays on the top of the crag and then supervising 3 cadets at the foot of the crag who were belaying the 3 who were climbing to the top, before being subsequently lowered, and the party switching roles. On one occasion, after we had finished for the day, I gathered the cadets together at the foot of the crag and we loaded our rucksacks before descending to our minibus. In a stern voice I warned them that they must not run down to the minibus, since if anyone fell with a loaded rucksack they could sustain injuries, and I would need the rest of the party to subsequently testify that I had given them this order. After receiving a series of “Yes Sir” responses, I picked up my own rucksack, securely fixed it in place on my back, and then ran down to the minibus as fast as I could. The cadets were only momentarily nonplussed before whooping with delight and charging down behind me. When dealing with teenagers psychology is very important.
One role that I filled at County Headquarters was that of Officer-in-charge of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme for the county. It was with the DoE Gold Expeditions that I became personally involved. If I had a small team of 4 cadets wishing to carry out a Gold Expedition, I would steer them towards choosing a 4-day route of their own choice in the Scottish highlands. I would drive them there in an ACF minibus and leave them to get on with their chosen route. I would solo backpack for those 4 days, keeping a very distant eye on them without them seeing me, to ensure that all was well, which is always was. Once they had pitched their tents each night, I would briefly stop by to check that there were no problems.
Driving motor bikes, cars, and HGVs
My Chosen Driving Standard
I always drive with both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road. If I am driving in unfamiliar territory, I always enter the destination's postal code into the onboard navigation system and let it keep me on the optimal route.
If the speed limit is (say) 50mph, I always drive in the high 40’s, and use the same rule for all other speeds. My road position is always in compliance with the recommendations of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, of which I first became a member in 1966.
I am teetotal and never drive when I am tired. I never attempt to eat or do anything else while I am driving.
There are 4 classes of Motor Vehicles, identified by the letters A, B, C and D
Class A are Motor Bikes
My brother, Bryn, owned a Triumph Speed Twin 500cc Motor Bike long before I ever drove one. I obtained a provisional licence and he taught me to drive it. I passed my driving test on it at the first attempt, and he later sold it to me.
The following photo is of the correct model, but it isn't of our actual bike.
In the summer of 1965 the two of us travelled out to the Alps together on it for a fortnight, loaded with climbing kit, a tent, sleeping bags and cooking equipment. This was the most significant motor bike journey I ever made.
Crossing the USA in Greyhound Coaches in 1960 I ran across someone with a Harley Davidson motor bike who let me take a solo spin on it. I was most impressed. In 1960 I think it was the most advanced motor-bike in the world - the acceleration was truly breath-taking.
Class B are Cars
As soon as I reached my 17th birthday I obtained a provisional driving licence and six weeks later I passed my driving test at the first attempt. Six years later I also passed my IAM driving test at the first attempt. So far, I have never picked up a speeding ticket or faced prosecution for a driving offence.
I have owned many cars over the years, but probably the most memorable ones were an MGC GT, a Triumph Stag, and my current Toyota automatic hybrid.
MGC GT
Triumph Stag
Class C are HGVs
In government-funded organisations, you must end each financial year having completely spent all of that year’s allowance, or the following year’s allowance will be reduced. When I was on the HQ Staff of Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force they were about to end a financial year without having spent all they needed to do, so I volunteered to step in and be trained as an HGV driver, passing my HGV driving test at the first attempt. I had no use for the qualification, so I have never driven an HGV since passing my test.
Class D are Buses and Coaches
It would have been nice to have completed the ‘Hat Trick’, but the opportunity never arose.
Sub-Aqua Diving
I qualified as a BSAC Second Class Diver in 1979 and as a Dive Supervisor in 1981. I led parties diving in UK coastal waters and in the Bahamas. I well remember dining on scallops I had picked from the sea floor off the Scottish coast.
I owned a pair of air cylinders fastened to a backpack, which I strapped to my back and connected to my mouthpiece. I wore a rubber diving suit with a belt carrying lead weights to balance the upwards thrust of my diving suit.
With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had compiled a diving log, but I either carelessly neglected to do so, or I compiled one but cannot (yet) find it.
I have clear memories of traversing sea-beds that were up to a hundred feet below sea level on numerous occasions and of collecting sea-food from them to take ashore to cook and eat.
Skippering sailing yachts
I learnt to sail while serving in the RAF where I qualified as a Day Skipper in 1987. I used this qualification on several occasions, borrowing 6-berth Royal Navy yachts, choosing crews of my junior airmen, teaching them how to handle sails and steer the boat. This was all in UK coastal waters.
The qualification enabled me to hire yachts in the Mediterranean on ‘bare-boat-charter’ terms to take friends and family members sailing.
Sailing Log
- 1997: from Turkey
- 1998: around the Channel Islands
- 2001: from Croatia
- 2005: in the Ionian Sea
- 2005: from Athens
Caving and Potholing
I gave up caving a long time ago, once I had lost the necessary joint flexibility for all of the wriggling, crawling and squirming that was necessary, but I have a lot of caving memories to look back on.
I qualified as a Local Cave Leader in June 1998 and as a Cave Rescuer 11th February 2000. ('Local' Cave Leader means leadig through caves with which one is already familiar.)
The following table lists my personal caving trips in chronological order. Because everything you take caving invariably gets drenched, I never carried a camera, so I can display no photos.
| No | DATE | REGION | SYSTEM | ROLE | GRADE TYPE | COMMENTS |
| 1 | 26-Jun-76 | Gibralter | Lower St Michael's | PM | 2 L1 | taken through by a local army leader. A very thorough exploration |
| 2 | 20-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Ibbeth Peril 1 | PM | 3 L1 | some strenuous flat-out crawling, but worth the effort. |
| 3 | 22-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | County Pot | PM | 3 Laddered | to the Minarets and back |
| 4 | 23-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Lancaster Hole | PM | 3 Laddered | |
| 5 | 25-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Dow Cave | PM | 3 L1 | to Second Choke, surveying |
| 6 | 26-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Alum Pot | PM | 3 Laddered | an easy but tiring ladder exercise |
| 7 | 28-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Heron Pot | PM | 3 Pull-through | very tight exit; had to remove lamp belt |
| 8 | 29-Sep-77 | Yorkshire | Bar Pot | PM | 3 Laddered | to Gaping Ghyll Main Chamber |
| 9 | 09-May-78 | Portland | Ariel Cave | PM | 3 Abseil | also called Blacknor Hole. Abseiled down cliff and swung in; exit via same rope to cliff foot |
| 10 | 12-May-78 | Portland | Persil Rift | PM | 2 Laddered | quite a bit of crawling |
| 11 | 14-May-78 | Mendips | Manor Farm Swallet | PM | 3 Laddeed | to Florence's bathtub |
| 12 | 15-May-78 | Mendips | Swildon's Hole | PM | 3 L1 | to sump 2 |
| 13 | 16-May-78 | Mendips | Eastwater Cavern | PM | 4 L1 | wet and strenuous |
| 14 | 17-May-78 | Mendips | Stoke Lane Slocker | PM | 4 L1 | to sump1. A smelly cave with a lot of horrible crawling |
| 15 | 18-May-78 | Mendips | GB Cavern | PM | 3 L1 | to Great Chamber and back |
| 16 | 19-May-78 | Mendips | Goatchurch Cavern | PM | 3 L1 | Round trip of whole system - to terminal chamber |
| 17 | 14-Jun-78 | Portland | Sandy Hole | PM | 3 L1 | a lot of horrible crawling |
| 18 | 03-Jul-78 | Portland | Arial Cave | PM | 2 Abseil | tight in places |
| 19 | 23-Jan-79 | South Wales | Little Neath River Cave | PM | 4 L1 | strenuous and tiring |
| 20 | 24-Jun-79 | South Wales | Porth Y Ogof | PM | 3 L1 | Thorough exploration. Through trip. Welcome swim in river on exit |
| 21 | 25-Jun-79 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | PM | 3 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 22 | 10-Nov-79 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | Anticlockwise round trip, inwards low, outwards high. |
| 23 | 10-Nov-79 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | Leader | 3 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 24 | 24-Jun-80 | Peak District | Carlswark Cavern | Leader | 2 Pull through | Eyam Dale Shaft to Gin Entrance |
| 25 | 12-Nov-80 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | PM | 3 Laddered | Clockwise round trip, inwards low, outwards high |
| 26 | 17-Nov-81 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | via Giant's Walk to Eating House and back |
| 27 | 17-May-82 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | PM | 3 Laddered | Anticlockwise round trip, inwards high outwards low. |
| 28 | 24-Apr-82 | Yorkshire | Pippikin to Link | PM | 3 Pull Through | Exciting trip with NPC. Link exit pre-laddered |
| 29 | 26-May-82 | North Wales | Glan Alyn | PM | 2 L1 | some interesting mining artifacts |
| 30 | 16-Jun-82 | North Wales | Poachers Cave | PM | 2 Laddered | a few crawls and a lot of mud |
| 31 | 07-Jul-82 | Peak District | Knotlow Cavern | PM | 3 Laddered | Climbing Shaft Route, 3 pitches of 15m, 12m ad 12m |
| 32 | 01-Aug-82 | Ardeche | unknown | PM | 2 L1 | 4-5 hours exploration underground. Big system, no survey, no guidebook |
| 33 | 25-Aug-82 | North Wales | Ogof Hesp Alyn | PM | 5 Laddered | First 3 pitches only, of 8m, 25m and 10m. Strenuous |
| 34 | 25-Jun-85 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | Anticlockwise round trip, inwards low, outwards high |
| 35 | 30-Jun-86 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to Valley Entrance | Leader | 4 Pull Through | Vally Entrance pre-rigged. Party of 4 |
| 36 | 08-Aug-87 | Yorkshire | County Pot | PM | 3 Laddered | to Main Drain and back |
| 37 | 09-Aug-87 | Yorkshire | Yordas Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | with party of novices |
| 38 | 26-Jun-88 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | with my daughter Tracy, aged 12. Twice through, descending waterslide into Dr Banister's Handbasin |
| 39 | 25-Nov-89 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | Leader | 2 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 40 | 20-Oct-90 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | PM | 4 Pull through | Valley Entrance pre-rigged. Party of 4. RAFMA Meet |
| 41 | 10-Nov-90 | Peak District | P8 Jackpot | Leader | 3 laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 42 | 11-Nov-90 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 laddered | Clockwise round trip, inwards low, outards high |
| 43 | 21-Sep-91 | Yorkshire | Lancaster Hole | PM | 3 SRT | to the Minarets and back |
| 44 | 22-Sep-91 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | PM | 3 SRT | via Shadow Route to Duke Street, back de-rigging Ding Dong Bell |
| 45 | 09-Nov-91 | Peak District | P8 Jackpot | Leader | 3 laddered | to termninal sump and back |
| 46 | 10-Nov-91 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | Anticlockwise round trip, inwards high, outwards low |
| 47 | 07-Dec-91 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | to Master Junction. With novices |
| 48 | 16-May-92 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull through | VE pre-riged, Part of 4 |
| 49 | 03-Oct-82 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | PM | 3 SRT | de-rigged |
| 50 | 10-Oct-92 | Yorkshire | Bar Pot | PM | 3 SRT | to Gaving Ghyll main entrance |
| 51 | 11-Oct-92 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull through | VE pre-riged, Part of 4 |
| 52 | 29-May-93 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | With a party of children |
| 53 | 13-Nov-93 | Lake District | Bonsor Mine | Leader | 2 L1 | Full exloration, Somewhat loose and dangerous |
| 54 | 15-Oct-94 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull through | VE pre-rigged. Party of 6 |
| 55 | 13-Nov-94 | Peak District | P8 Jackpot | Leader | 3 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 56 | 16-Jun-05 | Peak District | P8 Jackpot | Leader | 3 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 57 | 17-Jun-95 | Peak District | Maskhill Mine | PM | 5 SRT | Very muddy! Led by Neil Brammer. De-rigged very muddy ropes, Ugh! |
| 58 | 14-Oct-96 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull through | VE pre-rigged. Party of 4 |
| 59 | 14-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | leader | 3 Laddered | To Master Junction. With novices |
| 60 | 15-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Bar Pot | PM | 3 SRT | to Gaping Ghyll Main Chamber |
| 61 | 16-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot Kingsdale | PM | 3 SRT | de-rigged. A RAFMA Meet |
| 62 | 21-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Bar Pot | PM | 3 SRT | CSCA Meet. All but the bottom pitch |
| 63 | 22-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | PM | 3 SRT | CSCA Meet. Ding Dong Bell route to Duke Street 1 |
| 64 | 23-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Lancaster Hole | PM | 3 SRT | CSCA Meet. To the Collonades and back |
| 65 | 24-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Short Drop Cave | PM | 2 SRT | CSCA Meet. Failed to find the route up to Gavel Pot, but saw daylight |
| 66 | 25-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Lost John's Cave | PM | 3 SRT | up and down Centipede Route to the top of Valhalla. Derigged. Led by Phil Oakley |
| 67 | 27-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Rumbling Hole | PM | 4 SRT | CSCA Meet led by Phil Oakley |
| 68 | 28-Oct-95 | Yorkshire | Wretched Rabbit | PM | 3 Handlined | CSCA Meet. Led by Phyl Oakley |
| 69 | 25-Nov-95 | Mendips | Swildon's Hole | PM | 3 L1 | to sump 2 |
| 70 | 26-Nov-95 | Mendips | Longwood/August System | PM | 3 L1 | a lot of flat-out crawling |
| 71 | 06-Jan-96 | Peak District | Eldon Hole | PM | 3 SRT | 2 routes rigged on CSCA Meet. Followed Charlie Milton |
| 72 | 07-Jan-96 | Peak District | Peak Cavern | PM | 2 L1 | to far beyond the show cave. Round trip with CSCA |
| 73 | 10-Feb-96 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | Round trip, inwards low outwards high. |
| 74 | 18-May-96 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | Round trip, inwards low outwards high. |
| 75 | 03-Aug-96 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | Leader | 3 SRT | rigged and derigged |
| 76 | 05-Oct-96 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot, Kingsdale | Leader | 3 SRT | rigged ans derigged |
| 77 | 15-Dec-96 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull Through | VE pre-rigged. Party of 8 |
| 78 | 30-Jun-97 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot of the witches | PM | 3 SRT | all 3 pitches |
| 79 | 01-Jul-97 | Yorkshire | Short Drop Cave | PM | 2 Laddered | suporting a trip by novices |
| 80 | 02-Jul-97 | Yorkshire | Lancaster Hole | PM | 3 SRT | to the Collonades and back |
| 81 | 03-Jul-97 | Yorkshire | Wretched Rabbit | PM | 3 Handlined | to the Main Drain and back |
| 82 | 16-Nov-97 | Peak District | Peak Cavern | Leader | 2 L1 | to far beyond the show-cave, a round trip with CMC |
| 83 | 14-Mar-98 | Mendips | Swildon's Hole | PM | 3 Laddered | through S1 to S2 to start of Blue Pencil and back |
| 84 | 15-Mar-98 | Mendips | GB Cavern | PM | 3 L1 | via Mud Passage to Picture Gallery, back via Devil's Elbow |
| 85 | 24-Mar-98 | Yorkshire | New Goydon Pot | PM | 3 SRT | Improvised Rescue Practice with a patient and a Troll stretcher |
| 86 | 25-Mar-98 | Yorkshire | New Goydon Pot | PM | 3 SRT | Stretcher raised to window vertically and via Tyrolean Traverse |
| 87 | 26-Mar-98 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | PM | 2 L1 | water very high |
| 88 | 27-Mar-98 | Yorkshire | Yordas Cave | PM | 2 SRT | similated cave rescue callout with Troll stretcher |
| 89 | 26-Jun-98 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | With my daughter aged 12, descending water slide into the basin |
| 90 | 08-Aug-98 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | PM | 3 SRT | thorough exploration |
| 91 | 09-Aug-96 | Peak District | Streak's Pot | PM | 4 L2 | through trip following Jim Carr |
| 92 | 09-Sep-98 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | Leader | Laddered | very sporting in heavy water conditions |
| 93 | 03-Oct-98 | Yorkshire | County Pot | Leader | 3 Laddered | instrction to 3 novices |
| 94 | 03-Oct-98 | Yorkshire | Wretched Rabbit | Leader | 3 Handlined | instruction to 3 novices |
| 95 | 04-Oct-98 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | Instruction to 3 novices |
| 96 | 05-Dec-98 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 SRT | Onsite lead, party of 2 |
| 97 | 06-Dec-98 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | Leader | 3 SRT | Ding Dong Bell only, with SRT novices |
| 98 | 12-Dec-98 | Yorkshire | Rowton Pot | Leader | 4 SRT | Onsite lead; very wet |
| 99 | 13-Dec-98 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | novice trip, rather wet |
| 100 | 16-Dec-98 | Peak District | Carleswalk Cavern | Leader | 3 Pull Through | Eyam Dale Shaft to Gin Entrance with novices |
| 101 | 10-Apr-99 | Yorkshire | Bar Pot | Leader | 3 SRT | to Gaping Ghyll and hottom of Disappointment Pot |
| 102 | 11-Apr-99 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | Leader | 3 SRT | Ding Dong Bell, Pussy Well to Duke Sreet 1 |
| 103 | 12-Jun-99 | Peak District | P8 Jackpot | Leader | 3 SRT | to bottom sump |
| 104 | 04-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | 2 trips with small parties of Army Cadets. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to the top of the Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 105 | 05-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | 2 trips with small parties of Army Cadets. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to the top of the Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 106 | 06-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | 2 trips with small parties of Army Cadets. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to the top of the Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 107 | 07-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | 2 trips with small parties of Army Cadets. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to the top of the Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 108 | 08-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to Valley Entrance | Leader | 4 Pull-Through | A fast trip in a party of two |
| 109 | 16-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | 1 trip with a small party of Army Cadets from the top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to the top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 110 | 12-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Sell Gill Holes | Leader | 3 SRT | Up and down Dry Route in a party of 2 |
| 111 | 13-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Jingling Pot | Leader | 3 SRT | via Lateral Cleft |
| 112 | 14-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Rowton Pot | Leader | 3 SRT | to the sump with a party of 4 |
| 113 | 15-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Sell Gill Holes | Leader | 3 SRT | Crossover trip, rigged Dry Route down and de-rigged wet route up |
| 114 | 16-Aug-99 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot, Kingsdale | Leader | 3 SRT | all but final pitch; de-rigged |
| 115 | 11-Sep-99 | Peak District | Carlswark Cavern | Leader | 3 Pull Through | 1 through trip traning Deputy, then 2 through trips with Army Cadets |
| 116 | 17-Oct-99 | Yorkshire | Rowton Pot | Leader | 3 SRT | to the sump in a party of 4 |
| 117 | 18-Oct-99 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to Valley Entrance | Leader | 4 Pull-Through | Valley Entrance pre-rigged |
| 118 | 13-Nov-99 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | Leader | 3 SRT | to bottom sump |
| 119 | 27-Nov-99 | South Wales | OFD | PM | 4 L2 | Cwndwr to OFD 2 |
| 120 | 08-Feb-00 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | PM | 4 SRT | Stretcher exercise on the pitch |
| 121 | 09-Feb-00 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | PM | 3 SRT | Down Shadow, up Ding Dong Bell. Improvised stretcher exercise |
| 122 | 10-Feb-00 | Yorkshire | Notts Pot | PM | 3 SRT | Down Centre Route, de-rigged Twilight Zone |
| 123 | 11-Feb-00 | Yorkshire | Yordas Cave | PM | 2 SRT | Middle Entrance to Lower Entrance with person on stretcher |
| 124 | 14-Jul-00 | Yorkshire | Old Ing and Birkwith Caves | Solo | 2 L1 | Solo Recce |
| 125 | 15-Jul-00 | Yorkshire | Great Douk | Leader | 1 L1 | with novice party from CMC |
| 126 | 16-Jul-00 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | with novice party from CMC |
| 127 | 17-Jul-00 | Yorkshire | Heron Pot | Solo | 2 L1 | Solo recce from top entrance to top of first pitch |
| 128 | 27-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Great Douk | Leader | 1 L1 | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 129 | 27-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 130 | 28-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 Abseil | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 131 | 28-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Old Ings | Leader | 2 L1 | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 132 | 29-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 Abseil | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 133 | 30-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 134 | 31-Aug-00 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | with a party of Cambs Army Cadets |
| 135 | 20-Oct-00 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot Kingsdale | PM | 3 SRT | all except final pitch. CSCA Meet |
| 136 | 20-Oct-00 | Yorkshire | Jingling Pot | PM | 3 SRT | via Lateral Cleft. CSCA Meet |
| 137 | 21-Oct-00 | Yorkshire | Hunt Pot | PM | 3 SRT | CSCA party of 5 |
| 138 | 12-Aug-01 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | with a party of novices |
| 139 | 19-Sep-01 | Cantabria (Spain) | Coventosa | PM | 2 Laddered | leisurely exloration of generally large passages |
| 140 | 20-Sep-01 | Cantabria | Sumides de Cellagua | PM | 5 SRT | 325m descent to Titan Hall for overnight camp |
| 141 | 21-Sep-00 | Cantabria | Suma de Garma Griega | PM | 5 SRT | 425m ascent from Titan Hall |
| 142 | 22-Sep-01 | Cantabria | Canuela | PM | 2 Laddered | very large system, anticlockwise round trip |
| 143 | 26-Oct-01 | Belgium | Trou de Nou Moulin | PM | 3 Handlined | A good through trip with a bit of everything |
| 144 | 28-Oct-01 | Belgium | Trou Veran | PM | 3 SRT | first two pitches only due to a lack of time |
| 145 | 03-Nov-01 | Mendips | GB Cavern | PM | 3 Laddered | visited the upper series with a ladder |
| 146 | 04-Nov-01 | Mendips | Swildon's Hole | PM | 2 Laddered | to Sump 1 and back, party of 7 including a 7 year old |
| 147 | 02-Nov-02 | Mendips | Swildon's Hole | PM | 2 Laddered | Through Sump 1 |
| 148 | 08-Mar-03 | Yorkshire | Lost John's Cave | PM | 2 SRT | down Centipede Route, up Dome Route |
| 149 | 12-Apr-03 | South Wales | Ogof Clogwyn | Dep Ldr | 2 L1 | cadet trip |
| 150 | 12-Apr-03 | South Wales | Ogof Pen Eyr | Dep Ldr | 3 L1 | cadet trip |
| 151 | 13-Apr-03 | South Wales | Agen Allwed | Dep Ldr | 2 L1 | to selenite crystals |
| 152 | 03-May-03 | Peak District | Giant's Hole | Leader | 3 Laddered | with a party of novices |
| 153 | 04-May-03 | Peak District | P8 (Jackpot) | Leader | 3 Laddered | to terminal sump and back |
| 154 | 05-May-03 | Peak District | Carlswark Cavern | Leader | 2 Pull-Through | Eyam Dale Shaft to Gin Entrance |
| 155 | 14-Jun-03 | Yorkshire | Ireby Fell Cavern | PM | 3 SRT | via Shadow Route to Duke Street, back de-rigging Ding Dong Bell |
| 156 | 15-Jun-03 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull-Through | Valley Entrance pre-rigged. Party of 5 |
| 157 | 12-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Bull Pot, Kingsdale | Leader | 3 SRT | Party of 4 |
| 158 | 19-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 SRT | Party of 4 |
| 159 | 27-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 160 | 28-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 161 | 29-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | CCAT Party to Master Junction and back |
| 162 | 31-Jul-03 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 163 | 01-Aug-03 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 Lowered | CCAT Party |
| 164 | 12-Apr-04 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party |
| 165 | 24-Apr-04 | Yorkshire | Wilson's Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party |
| 166 | 24-Apr-04 | Yorkshire | Borrins Moor Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party |
| 167 | 25-APR-04 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 3 Laddered | CCAT Party. To Master Junction and back |
| 168 | 26-Apr-04 | Yorkshire | Swinsto to VE | Leader | 4 Pull-Through | Valley Entrance pre-rigged. Party of 3 |
| 169 | 30-May-04 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party. From top of Doctor Banister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 170 | 30-May-04 | Yorkshire | Borins Moor Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 171 | 30-May-04 | Yorkshire | Wilson's Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 172 | 31-May-04 | Yorkshire | Old Ing | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 173 | 31-May-04 | Yorkshire | Calf Holes to Browgill | Leader | 2 Lowered | Beds ACF Party |
| 174 | 01-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 175 | 01-Jun-o4 | Yorkshire | Wilson's Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 176 | 02-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Old Ing | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 177 | 02-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Thistle and Runscar | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 178 | 02-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Great Douk | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party |
| 179 | 03-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Valley Entrance | Leader | 2 Laddered | Beds ACF Party. To Master Junction and back |
| 180 | 03-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Yordas Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | Beds ACF Party. Lower cave only |
| 181 | 19-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Long Churn System | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party. From top of Doctor Bannister's Handbasin to top of Dolly Tubs pitches |
| 182 | 19-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Wlson's Cave | Leader | 2 L1 | CCAT Party |
| 183 | 19-Jun-04 | Yorkshire | Thistle and Runscar | Leader | 2 L1 | 2 CCAT Parties, crossing over in the middle |
Skiing, on-piste and cross-country
Skiing
I was formally taught skiing on Armed Forces courses in 1979 and 1980 while in the RAF.
I qualified as an RAF Alpine Ski Instructor in February 2005, (but only to the BASI Central Theme).
I qualified as an RAF Off Piste Ski Instructor on courses held in January 2006 and January 2007.
I have logged 43 weeks of downhill skiing, frequently going to as many as three different ski resorts per season. In the later years I was cruising at 30mph and occasionally reaching 50mph; I know this, since I always carried a GPS data logger which allowed me, each evening, to download the track and plot a graph of speed aginst time, and to provide an overlay for digital ski maps. Once you have learned to ski entirely on your edges without ever skidding or sideslipping, skiing is genuinely effortless. On my final trip to Selva in Val Gardena I just managed to ski two consecutive anti-clockwise circuits of the Sella Ronda in one day, by catching the first lift of the day and never stopping (for anything other than toilet breaks).
My Skiing Log
| YEAR | THE SKIING RESORTS | |
| 1998 | 1 | Dolomites |
| 1999 | 2 | Lac du Tignes |
| 2002 | 3 | Lac du Tignes |
| 2003 | 4 5 | Selva Wengen |
| 2004 | 6 | Bavaria Teaching ACF Teenagers to ski |
| 2004 | 7 8 | Morzine Oberjoch |
| 2005 | 9 10 11 | Selva Oberjoch Silvretta |
| 2006 | 12 13 | Klosters Tignes |
| 2007 | 14 15 | Argentiere La Plagne |
| 2008 | 16 17 18 | Klosters Les Coches Tatras |
| 2009 | 19 20 21 | Klosters Meribel Mottaret |
| 2010 | 22 23 24 | Morzine Wengen St Anton |
| 2011 | 25 | St Anton |
| 2012 | 26 27 | Wengen Val Thorens |
| 2013 | 28 29 | Meribel Val Thorens |
| 2014 | 30 31 32 | Tignes Selva Val Thorens |
| 2015 | 33 34 35 | Davos Les Coches Val Thorens |
| 2016 | 36 37 38 39 | Damuls Vail Aspen Val Thorens |
| 2017 | 40 41 | Kitzbuhel Canazei |
| 2018 | 42 43 | Selva Flims (Laax) |
My Ski Touring Log
| DATE | AREA | OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED |
| 31-Dec 81 | Snowdonia | Penyrolewen, Carnedd Dafydd, Carnedd Llewellyn |
| 15-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Verbier to the Mont Fort Hut |
| 16-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Mont Fort Hut to the Prafleury Hut |
| 17-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Prafleury Hut to the Dix Hut |
| 18-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Dix Hut to the Vignettes Hut |
| 19-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Vignettes Hut to Zermatt |
| 20-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Zermatt to the Britannia Hut |
| 21-Apr-84 | Pennine Alps | Britannia Hut to Saas Fee |
| 07-Mar-90 | Pyrenees | Peigne d'Aragon |
| 12-Mar-90 | Pyrenees | 3 cols traverse |
| 13-Mar-90 | Pyrenees | Petite Vignemalle |
| 15-Mar-90 | Pyrenees | Vignemalle |
| 11-Apr-01 | Scotland | White Corries |
| 12-Apr-01 | Scotland | Nevis Ranges |
| 4 to 9-Mar-07 | Austria | no record |
Flying powered aircraft solo cross-country
While serving in the RAF and stationed at RAF Sealand in Clwyd, (1980 - 1982), I learned to fly at the civilian Hawarden Airfield, privately at my own expense. I flew solo cross country on several occasions and just needed one more qualifying solo cross-country flight to gain my Civilian Pilot’s Licence, but unfortunately, autumn was coming on, and we never had the clear horizon that was deemed necessary. I was then posted at short notice to RAF Cranwell to become an MSc student on an Advanced Aerosystems course, after which I was creamed off to teach it for three years. I never therefore qualified as a pilot, but was contented that I had flown a powered aircraft solo cross-country on several occasions.
I am quite strongly of the opinion that flying such powered aircraft solo cross-country is simpler, safer, and more relaxing than driving cars on our roads.
My Education Record
8 GCE Certificates at Ordinary Level (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Geography, Art, English Literature, English Language, French) in 1959
3 GCE Certificates at Advance Level (Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics) in 1961
ONC in Electrical Engineering in 1962
BSc in Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London in 1965
Associate of the 'City and Guilds' Institute (ACGI) in 1965 - (see https://www.cityandguilds.com/ for details
Member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) in 1966, original membership number being m00063571
Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) in 1970
Diploma in Marketing (DipM) in 1971
Member of the British Institute of Management (MBIM, now MIMgt) in 1971
Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (MIEE) in 1972
Chartered Engineer (CEng) in 1972
Engineering Commission in the Royal Air Force in 1974
Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS) in 1981
MSc in Advanced Aerosystems, taught at RAF College Cranwell, and awarded by Loughborough University in 1985,
Member of the Royal Institute of Navigation (MRIN) in 1987
ISO 9000 Assessor in 1993
Investor in People Assessor (IIP) in 1994
Commission in the Army Cadet Force (ACF) in 1997
Once I finally retired, I resigned from all those professional bodies with expensive annual subscriptions, since the cumulative annual bill for them all was expensive and they no longer served any usefull purpose .
My Education Details
Schools
My education started at Hinckley Road Primary School in Leicester, subsequently renamed Dovelands. There were two classes in each year. I was in the higher class after year one, where most of us passed our eleven-plus exams and won places in Grammar Schools; in the lower class far fewer did, and they went to Secondary-Modern Schools.
I won a place at Wyggeston Boys‘ Grammar School, in existence from 1876 to 1976. The most famous currently-alive ‘old-boy’ being Sir David Attenborough. (This was written in 2025).
University
Dad warned us all that he couldn’t afford to pay for a University Education for all four siblings, so we were all asked to seek scholarships. I won a ‘1-3-1’ scholarship with AEI (Associated Electrical Industries). The first year was spent working in a factory in North London making radio valves (vacuum tubes) for radio and TV receivers. The middle three years were spent reading Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London; as a sign of the times transistors hadn’t been invented until I was near the end of my third year, and even then, they each consisted of an individual device with 3 leads. The college halls of residence were far too small for all students, so I spent my three years in ‘digs’ with a family in Mortlake Road, near Kew Gardens, travelling to and from college each day on the London Underground. Since I had to travel to South Kensington straight after breakfast, arriving just in time for the first lecture, and had to travel back again soon after the last lecture for my evening meal, I had no opportunities to socialize with fellow students, thus missing out on a lot that university students elsewhere enjoyed. I probably didn’t realize this until living near Cambridge in my senior years.
The Open University
GEOLOGY. Having been an active mountaineer for decades, I eventually decided that it might be about time to take a more active interest in the rock I was climbing and handling on a regular basis. Accordingly, I joined the OU in 1999 specifically to ‘cherry-pick’ their Geology Module. I can heartily recommend doing likewise to anyone keenly interest in geology.
ASTRONOMY. Having got myself hooked on the excellent standards of the OU, in the following year I chose to study their Astronomy Module, which taught me a lot.
MATHEMATICS. Having had a long-term interest in Mathematics, I polished my understanding of the subject by spending a year qualifying in it.
In all three courses I passed the final exams gaining distinctions, but after 25 years I bet I've forgotton quite a lot of it.
Building our own Home
on our new Equestrian Property
We bought a 12.66 acre arable field in 1988, and then designed and constructed our home in 1989 and lived in it for 32 years until 2021. In the large vegetable garden you will see the greenhouse and, to its right, the kerosene tank. You will see the electrical fencing around the main growing area to deter herbivores. To the right you will see the 20m by 60m dressage arena. To the left of our drive is our small orchard.
The property we had purchased
Our Stable Yard is shown at the foot of the field most of which we also purchased
Please compare the lack of trees depicted round our boundary with how it looked 30 years later.
Mary planted hundreds of saplings which grew to trees more than 30 ft high
Tasks carried out by we ourselves on a DIY basis:
- Design of house and all services
- Production of all drawings
- Site surveying
- All quantity surveyng and the purchase of all materials
- Levelling of footings concrete
- Oversite filling and screeding
- First and second fix woodwork
- First and second fix plumbing and drainage
- First and second fix wiring
- Decorating
Tasks carried out by directly contracted labour:
- JCB excavations
- Brickwork
- Roofing
- Plastering
- Glazing
- Scaffolding services
Milestones
- Foundations excavated - Easter 1989
- Oversite completed -Spring Bank Holiday 1989
- Chimney topped out - end of July 1989
- Roofed - mid September 1989
- Plastering completed - March 1990
- Electricity connected - June 1990
- Central heating commissioned - November 1990
- Decorating completed - after we had moved in, at a more leasurely pace
Overview
- 3,600 square feet
- Ground floor area 9 metres by 18 metres
- Upper floor area 9 metres by 14 metres
- External woodwork fully-durable Brazilian Mahogany
- Internal woodwork Meranti and Luan
- Double glazed in Pilkington K
- 2 baths, 2 showers, 4 WCs, 4 washbasins
- Wall cavities intact, inner walls of thick thermal blocks, walls thermally insulated with U of 0.6
- Ground floor thermally insulated
- The 'Feed-In-Tarif' (FIT) from our solar panels each year exceeded our cost of purchased electricity, so our net annual electricity cost was negative, despite having to cook solely by electricity, since we were too far away from any gas mains
A few of the Photos showing the home at different stages of its construction
Raising it from ground level to roof level
The supporting infrastructure outside of the house
The gardens and dressage arena
A selection of the Design Drawings
Our Holidays Record
It is intended that in due course each of these will be linked to some of the many photographs we took.
- Trekking in the Himalayas October-November 1998
- Several Private Sailing Holidays 1989 - 2006
- Exploring the SW of England June 2009
- Exploring Paris August 2010
- Exploring Southern Scotland July 2011
- Exploring Corsica May 2012
- Exploring Venice September 2015
- Santander, Spain September & October 2016
- Rhodes, Greece June 2017 (Mary only)
- Cruising the Norwegian Fiords September 2017
- Andalucia, Spain October 2017
- South Africa January 2018 (Mary only)
- Austria July 2018
- Sri Lanka August 2018
- Cruising the Caribbean January 2020
- Cruising the Adriatic February-March 2022
- Exploring the Canary Islands January 2023
- Cruising the North Atlantic September-October 2023
- Exploring India's Golden Triangle March 2024
- Seville June 2024
- Cruising the River Nile October 2024
- Alicante, Spain November 2024
- Kenya and Tanzania February 2025
- Cruising around Ireland June 2025
- Cruising around the Western Mediterranean January 2026
Theatrical Entertainment
My favourite two theatrical genres have always been Shakespeare and Opera
I have seen many operas and all of Shakespeare plays, every one of which I thought was particularly outstanding, but as a result of my short-term memory loss, I cannot recall all of their content, so I very much enjoy watching them again ... and again.
I have the BBC boxed set of all of Shakespeare's plays, so I can enjoy watching any of them at any time.
Record of Shakespeare's Plays Seen
on a total of over 360 occasions
| DATE | PLAY | WHERE SEEN | |
| 13/06/1995 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 29/06/1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 19/07/2006 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 20/02/2007 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ADC | |
| 04/07/2007 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | George Hotel | |
| 01/07/2009 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 13/01/2010 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 30/03/2011 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CAT | |
| 22/02/2012 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CAT | |
| 31/07/2013 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 25/02/2014 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Mumford Theatre | |
| 19/07/2014 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, Kings College | |
| 28/07/2014 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Cineworld, Globe on Screen | |
| 15/04/2015 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ADC CUADC | |
| 15/08/2015 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, St Johns College | |
| 29/07/2016 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, King's College | |
| 11/09/2016 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Streamed from the Globe | |
| 25/07/2017 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 12/08/2017 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, Trinity College | |
| 08/08/2017 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ADC, CUADC | |
| 09/07/2018 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, King's College | |
| 06/07/2019 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | George Hotel, Huntingdon | |
| 25/07/2019 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, St John's College | |
| 28/10/2019 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Cineworld (NTL) | |
| 21/06/2020 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Streamed from the Globe | |
| 23/08/2021 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, King's College | |
| 01/08/2023 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF, Trininty College | |
| 13/07/2024 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Tolethorpe | |
| 02/07/2024 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | CSF King's College | |
| 23/01/2025 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ADC | |
| 29/06/1905 | All's Well That Ends Well | George Hotel, Huntingdon | |
| 11/03/2004 | All's Well That Ends Well | Gielgud Theatre | |
| 15/08/2011 | All's Well That Ends Well | ADC | |
| 20/07/2017 | All's Well That Ends Well | CSF, Downing College | |
| 11/07/2007 | Anthony & Cleopatra | Tolethorpe | |
| 14/07/2011 | Anthony & Cleopatra | ADC | |
| 03/10/2012 | Anthony & Cleopatra | ADC | |
| 24/05/2017 | Anthony & Cleopatra | RSC via Cineworld | |
| 18/07/2017 | Anthony & Cleopatra | CSF, Robinson College | |
| 06/12/2018 | Anthony & Cleopatra | NTL via Cineworld | |
| 13/05/2020 | Anthony & Cleopatra | NTL via YouTube | |
| 19/07/2024 | Anthony & Cleopatra | CSF, Downing College | |
| 26/05/1905 | As You Like It | RSC, Stratford | |
| 06/10/2004 | As You Like It | ADC | |
| 09/05/2009 | As You Like It | ADC | |
| 03/08/2010 | As You Like It | CSF | |
| 10/07/2013 | As You Like It | ADC | |
| 14/10/2013 | As You Like It | Key Theatre Peterborough | |
| 17/07/2014 | As You Like It | CSF, St John's College | |
| 29/07/2014 | As You Like It | Tolethorpe | |
| 01/08/2016 | As You Like It | CSF, King's College | |
| 05/10/2016 | As You Like It | ADC | |
| 17/04/2019 | As You Like It | RSC via Cineworld | |
| 17/08/2019 | As You Like It | CSF, King's College | |
| 30/01/2021 | As You Like It | streamed fron the Globe | |
| 05/08/2023 | As You Like It | Tolethorpe | |
| 23/08/2006 | Coriolanus | Tolethorpe | |
| 30/01/2014 | Coriolanus | NTL, Cineworld | |
| 24/09/2015 | Coriolanus | NTL, Cineworld | |
| 19/07/2016 | Coriolanus | CSF, Robinson College | |
| 11/10/2017 | Coriolanus | RSC, Cineworld | |
| 09/02/2021 | Coriolanus | Streamed from the RSC | |
| 06/08/1998 | Cymbeline | Tolethorpe | |
| 30/06/2010 | Cymbeline | The George, Huntingdon | |
| 15/07/2013 | Cymbeline | CSF, Downing College | |
| 07/10/2013 | Cymbeline | Key Theatre Peterborough | |
| 28/07/2018 | Cymbeline | CSF, Robinson College | |
| 13/01/2009 | Hamlet | ADC | |
| 09/12/2010 | Hamlet | Stahl Theatre | |
| 13/05/2011 | Hamlet | Key Theatre Peterborough | |
| 19/07/2011 | Hamlet | Tolethorpe | |
| 07/07/2012 | Hamlet | Globe at Kings College | |
| 18/03/2013 | Hamlet | RSC Stratford | |
| 21/05/2013 | Hamlet | ADC | |
| 22/10/2013 | Hamlet | NTL, Cineworld | |
| 23/03/2015 | Hamlet | Cineworld from Manchester | |
| 15/10/2015 | Hamlet | NTL Cineworld | |
| 18/01/2017 | Hamlet | ADC | |
| 28/02/2017 | Hamlet | Mumford Theatre | |
| 20/11/2017 | Hamlet | RSC, Cinema, Cambridge | |
| 01/05/2018 | Hamlet | Round Church, ADC Touring | |
| 16/07/2019 | Hamlet | CSF, Kings College | |
| 21/01/2023 | Hamlet | ADC | |
| 25/06/2024 | Hamlet | George Hotel | |
| 14/06/2012 | Henry IV Part 1 | Tolethorpe | |
| 14/05/2014 | Henry IV Part 1 | RSC, Cineworld | |
| 27/07/2019 | Henry IV Part 1 | CSF, Robinson College | |
| 14/01/2021 | Henry IV Part 1 | RSC, streamed via Marquee | |
| 17/08/2011 | Henry IV Part 2 | Huntingdon Drama Club | |
| 24/08/2019 | Henry IV Part 2 | CSF, Robinson College | |
| 17/01/2021 | Henry IV Part 2 | RSC, streamed via Marquee | |
| 23/07/2002 | Henry V | Tolethorpe | |
| 09/10/2008 | Henry V | ADC | |
| 09/08/2010 | Henry V | CSF | |
| 16/05/2012 | Henry V | Globe on tour at the CAT | |
| 03/06/2013 | Henry V | Globe at Cineworld | |
| 04/02/2015 | Henry V | Marlowe Society at the CAT | |
| 04/06/2015 | Henry V | Tolethorpe | |
| 21/10/2015 | Henry V | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 12/01/2021 | Henry V | Steamed from RSC | |
| 17/09/2013 | Henry VI Part 1 | Globe on Tour at CAT | |
| 19/09/2013 | Henry VI Part 2 | Globe on Tour at CAT | |
| 20/09/2013 | Henry VI Part 3 | Globe on Tour at CAT | |
| 08/07/1998 | Henry VIII | Barnwell Castle, Oundle | |
| 22/09/2011 | Henry VIII | Cineworld | |
| 21/05/1905 | Julius Caesar | RSC Stratford | |
| 28/06/1997 | Julius Caesar | George Hotel | |
| 10/01/2008 | Julius Caesar | ADC | |
| 09/06/2012 | Julius Caesar | Oddsocks in Peterborough | |
| 10/07/2012 | Julius Caesar | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 30/04/2015 | Julius Caesar | Globe relay at Cineworld | |
| 26/04/2017 | Julius Caesar | RSC relay at Cineworld | |
| 22/03/2018 | Julius Caesar | RSC relay at Cineworld | |
| 07/08/2019 | Julius Caesar | Tolethorpe | |
| 09/12/2020 | Julius Caesar | Streamed from the RSC | |
| 20/07/2023 | Julius Caesar | CSF, Downing College | |
| 10/10/2024 | Julius Caesar | ADC | |
| 25/08/2003 | King Lear | Tolethorpe | |
| 03/02/2011 | King Lear | George Hotel | |
| 24/07/2013 | King Lear | Globe at Corpus Christi | |
| 01/05/2014 | King Lear | National Theatre, Cineworld | |
| 12/10/2016 | King Lear | RSC Relay to Cineworld | |
| 01/08/2017 | King Lear | CSF at St John's College | |
| 21/09/2017 | King Lear | Globe relay to Cineworld | |
| 27/09/2018 | King Lear | National Theatre, Cineworld | |
| 05/03/2020 | King Lear | ADC | |
| 27/06/2012 | Love's Labours Lost | George Hotel | |
| 11/02/2015 | Love's Labours Lost | RSC Relay to Cineworld | |
| 31/07/2015 | Love's Labours Lost | CSF at Downing College | |
| 25/10/2017 | Love's Labours Lost | ADC | |
| 31/07/2021 | Love's Labours Lost | Tolethorpe | |
| 10/07/2024 | Love's Labours Lost | CSF at St John's College | |
| 11/07/2005 | Macbeth | Tolethorpe | |
| 17/01/2007 | Macbeth | ADC | |
| 18/03/2010 | Macbeth | Mumford Theatre | |
| 23/02/2011 | Macbeth | Cheek by Jowl at CAT | |
| 12/06/2011 | Macbeth | Oddsocks | |
| 05/10/2011 | Macbeth | ADC | |
| 03/11/2011 | Macbeth | Key Theatre | |
| 10/10/2012 | Macbeth | Corpus Playroom | |
| 03/07/2013 | Macbeth | George Hotel | |
| 20/07/2013 | Macbeth | NTL at Cineworld | |
| 14/07/2014 | Macbeth | Globe at Cineworld | |
| 13/10/2014 | Macbeth | Mumford Theatre | |
| 14/01/2015 | Macbeth | ADC | |
| 29/04/2015 | Macbeth | Key Theatre | |
| 20/08/2015 | Macbeth | CSF at Kings College | |
| 08/10/2015 | Macbeth | Cineworld movie | |
| 24/11/2015 | Macbeth | Pantaloon at Mumford Theatre | |
| 15/06/2016 | Macbeth | Tolethorpe | |
| 13/03/2018 | Macbeth | Cambridge Arts Pictutrehouse | |
| 10/04/2018 | Macbeth | NTL live relay at Cineworld | |
| 30/07/2018 | Macbeth | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 30/07/2018 | Macbeth | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 30/07/2018 | Macbeth | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 05/11/2020 | Macbeth | RSC Streamed to our home via Marquee | |
| 10/08/2021 | Macbeth | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 25/06/1992 | Measure For Measure | George Hotel | |
| 22/02/2006 | Measure For Measure | ADC | |
| 01/04/2009 | Measure for Measure | ADC | |
| 04/09/2013 | Measure for Measure | ADC | |
| 10/02/2016 | Measure For Measure | CAT | |
| 31/07/2019 | Measure for Measure | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 09/01/2021 | Measure for Measure | RSC streamed to our home | |
| 15/07/2023 | Measure for Measure | Tolethorpe | |
| 17/06/1995 | Much Ado About Nothing | Tolethorpe | |
| 07/07/2001 | Much Ado About Nothing | Venue unrecorded | |
| 16/01/2004 | Much Ado About Nothing | ADC | |
| 23/06/2005 | Much Ado About Nothing | George Hotel | |
| 21/07/2010 | Much Ado About Nothing | Tolethorpe | |
| 01/02/2011 | Much Ado About Nothing | CAT | |
| 16/08/2011 | Much Ado About Nothing | ADC | |
| 09/07/2013 | Much Ado About Nothing | CSF at St John's College | |
| 28/08/2014 | Much Ado About Nothing | Globe Theatre on tour at Corpus Christi | |
| 10/10/2014 | Much Ado About Nothing | ADC | |
| 04/03/2015 | Much Ado About Nothing | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 03/08/2015 | Much Ado About Nothing | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 27/08/2015 | Much Ado About Nothing | Globe at Corpus Christi | |
| 12/07/2017 | Much Ado About Nothing | CSF at King's College | |
| 15/08/2017 | Much Ado About Nothing | Tolethorpe | |
| 17/01/2018 | Much Ado About Nothing | ADC | |
| 26/01/2019 | Much Ado About Nothing | Marlowe Society at CAT | |
| 12/08/2019 | Much Ado About Nothing | CSF at St John's College | |
| 05/07/2020 | Much Ado about Nothing | RSC via BBC4 TV | |
| 27/06/2023 | Much Ado About Nothing | Tolethorpe | |
| 27/06/2023 | Much Ado About Nothing | George Hotel | |
| 01/08/2026 | Much Ado About Nothing | CSF at St John's College | |
| 18/08/2010 | Othello | Tolethorpe | |
| 26/09/2013 | Othello | NTL at Cineworld Llandudno Junction | |
| 03/12/2013 | Othello | Mumford Theatre | |
| 01/08/2014 | Othello | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 23/05/2015 | Othello | ADC | |
| 26/08/2015 | Othello | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 19/01/2019 | Othello | ADC | |
| 30/09/2024 | Othello | Cineworld | |
| 11/07/2014 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 30/06/2017 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | George Hotel | |
| 17/05/1905 | Richard II | RSC | |
| 25/02/2009 | Richard II | ADC | |
| 02/05/2012 | Richard II | ADC | |
| 12/07/2014 | Richard II | CSF at Downing College Gardens | |
| 15/01/2019 | Richard II | Almeida Theatre Live Relay to Showcase Peterborough | |
| 11/01/2021 | Richard II | Streamed to our home | |
| 25/10/2023 | Richard II | RSC 2013 via Marquee | |
| 30/07/2024 | Richard II | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 23/05/1905 | Richard III | RSC | |
| 18/06/1996 | Richard III | Tolethorpe | |
| 08/03/2006 | Richard III | CAT | |
| 11/08/2008 | Richard III | Tolethorpe | |
| 14/11/2010 | Richard III | Key Theatre | |
| 15/01/2014 | Richard III | ADC | |
| 21/07/2016 | Richard III | Almeida via Cineworld | |
| 14/07/2017 | Richard III | Antic Disposition at Peterborough Cathedral | |
| 29/06/2018 | Richard III | George Hotel | |
| 24/10/2018 | Richard III | ADC | |
| 26/04/2019 | Richard III | CAT | |
| 20/08/2021 | Richard III | CSF at St John's College | |
| 06/05/2021 | Richard III | 1946 Laurence Olivier film via BBC iPlayer | |
| 04/06/2001 | Romeo & Juliet | Tolethorpe | |
| 01/07/2008 | Romeo & Juliet | Tolethorpe | |
| 04/03/2009 | Romeo & Juliet | St Ives Youth Theatre | |
| 08/12/2009 | Romeo & Juliet | Oddsocks at Stahl Theatre | |
| 19/03/2010 | Romeo & Juliet | Mumford Theatre | |
| 07/03/2012 | Romeo & Juliet | CAT | |
| 26/09/2012 | Romeo & Juliet | Key Theatre | |
| 01/04/2014 | Romeo & Juliet | Cineworld HLive relay from Broadway | |
| 31/03/2015 | Romeo & Juliet | Globe on tour at Alnwick Playhouse (with Bryn & Pam) | |
| 11/06/2015 | Romeo & Juliet | Tolethorpe | |
| 25/07/2015 | Romeo & Juliet | CSF at St Johns College | |
| 07/07/2016 | Romeo & Juliet | Cineworld | |
| 19/08/2017 | Romeo & Juliet | CSF at King's College | |
| 07/04/2021 | Romeo & Juliet | NTL on BBC TV | |
| 23/07/2021 | Romeo & Juliet | CSF at St Johns College | |
| 17/08/2023 | Romeo & Juliet | CSF at King's College | |
| 06/02/2001 | The Comedy of Errors | CSF at St John's College | |
| 01/03/2012 | The Comedy of Errors | Live relay to Cineworld | |
| 06/02/2013 | The Comedy of Errors | CAT | |
| 19/06/2013 | The Comedy of Errors | Tolethorpe | |
| 08/07/2013 | The Comedy of Errors | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 09/07/2015 | The Comedy of Errors | Globe live at Cineworld | |
| 12/10/2019 | The Comedy of Errors | ADC | |
| 16/06/2021 | The Comedy of Errors | CSF at Downham College Gardens | |
| 24/06/2004 | The Merchant of Venice | Tolethorpe | |
| 02/06/2005 | The Merchant of Venice | RSC Stratford | |
| 09/05/2007 | The Merchant of Venice | ADC | |
| 24/02/2010 | The Merchant of Venice | ADC | |
| 16/01/2013 | The Merchant of Venice | ADC | |
| 04/07/2014 | The Merchant of Venice | The George | |
| 04/08/2014 | The Merchant of Venice | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 22/07/2015 | The Merchant of Venice | RSC Live Relay at Cineworld | |
| 18/05/2017 | The Merchant of Venice | ADC | |
| 02/08/2018 | The Merchant of Venice | Tolethorpe | |
| 31/08/2018 | The Merchant of Venice | CAT | |
| 13/01/2021 | The Merchant of Venice | RSC streamed via Marquee | |
| 28/07/2021 | The Merchant of Venice | (2015)Streamed to our homevia Marquee | |
| 21/05/1905 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | RSC Stratford | |
| 02/08/2005 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Tolethorpe | |
| 08/12/2011 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Stahl Theatre, Oundle | |
| 21/07/2012 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | CSF at St Johns College | |
| 02/10/2013 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Key Theatre | |
| 23/06/2015 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | George Hotel | |
| 28/07/2015 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | CSF at Kings College | |
| 10/08/2017 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 26/07/2018 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Tolethorpe | |
| 20/06/2019 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Globe via Cineworld | |
| 19/07/2021 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | CSF at Kings Collegel | |
| 13/06/2024 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | RSC Stratford | |
| 29/07/2024 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | CSF at St John's College | |
| 20/05/1905 | The Taming of the Shrew | RSC Stratford | |
| 22/10/1985 | The Taming of the Shrew | RSC at Yarborough Leisure Centre | |
| ??/??/1995 | The Taming of the Shrew | Tolethorpe | |
| ??/??/1996 | The Taming of the Shrew | George Hotel | |
| 17/06/2005 | The Taming of the Shrew | Tolethorpe | |
| 18/06/2005 | The Taming of the Shrew | George Hotel | |
| 18/01/2006 | The Taming of the Shrew | ADC | |
| 27/06/2007 | The Taming of the Shrww | Tolethorpe | |
| 24/06/2009 | The Taming of the Shrew | The George | |
| 17/07/2012 | The Taming of the Shrew | CSF at Downing College | |
| 29/07/2013 | The Taming of the Shrew | Globe at Cineworld | |
| 23/08/2013 | The Taming of the Shrew | Globe at Corpus Christi | |
| 06/08/2014 | The Taming of the Shrew | Tolethorpe | |
| 07/08/2014 | The Taming of the Shrew | CSF at Homerton College | |
| 07/10/2015 | The Taming of the Shrew | CU at ADC Theatre Cambridge CU AST | |
| 23/07/2018 | The Taming of the Shrew | CSF at St John's College | |
| 01/09/2018 | The Taming of the Shrew | Globe at CAT | |
| 05/06/2019 | The Taming of the Shrew | RXC at Cineworld | |
| 15/12/1995 | The Tempest | RSC at Biggleswade | |
| 08/07/2000 | The Tempest | Tolethorpe | |
| 17/06/2005 | The Tempest | RSC Stratford | |
| 22/07/2009 | The Tempest | Tolethorpe | |
| 06/10/2010 | The Tempest | Mumford Theatre | |
| 24/03/2012 | The Tempest | ADC | |
| 24/07/2012 | The Tempest | CSF at Girton College | |
| 08/05/2014 | The Tempest | ADC | |
| 03/06/2014 | The Tempest | Globe at Cineworld | |
| 29/06/2016 | The Tempest | George Hotel | |
| 05/07/2016 | The Tempest | Tolethorpe | |
| 25/07/2016 | The Tempest | CSF at St John's College | |
| 07/02/2017 | The Tempest | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 05/08/2019 | The Tempest | CSF at Trinity College | |
| 21/07/2023 | The Tempest | ADC | |
| 10/08/2023 | The Tempest | CSF at St John's College Gardens | |
| 10/01/2024 | The Tempest | ADC | |
| 30/07/2026 | The Tempest | CSF at Downing College | |
| 08/10/2009 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | ADC | |
| 16/10/2013 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Corpus Playroom | |
| 03/09/2014 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 19/04/2016 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | ADC | |
| 22/05/1905 | The Winter's Tale | RSC Stratford | |
| 18/07/2000 | The Winter's Tale | Tolethorpe | |
| 25/06/2008 | The Winter's Tale | The George Hotel | |
| 17/06/2009 | The Winter's Tale | RSC Stratford | |
| 02/08/2011 | The Winter's Tale | Tolethorpe | |
| 26/11/2015 | The Winter's Tale | Kenneth Branagh Theatre to Cineworld | |
| 04/05/2016 | The Winter's Tale | ADC | |
| 02/08/2016 | The Winter's Tale | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 02/02/2017 | The Winter's Tale | Cheek by Jowl at CAT | |
| 18/07/2019 | The Winter's Tale | CSF at Downing College | |
| 25/07/2023 | The Winter's Tale | CSF at King's College | |
| 19/12/2024 | The Winter's Tale | ADC | |
| 01/11/2012 | Timon of Athens | Live Theatre Relay to Cineworld Llandudno Jn | |
| 06/08/2015 | Timon of Athens | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 20/11/2019 | Timon of Athens | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 01/08/2015 | Titus Andronicus | CSF at Robinson College | |
| 08/08/2017 | Titus Andronicus | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 14/11/2018 | Troilus and Cressida | RSC at Cineworld | |
| 22/10/1985 | Twelfth Night | The George Hotel | |
| 01/06/1991 | Twelfth Night | RSC Stratford | |
| 31/05/1995 | Twelfth Night | Peterborough | |
| 02/06/1995 | Twelfth Night | ADC | |
| 04/06/1995 | Twelfth Night | Tolethorpe | |
| 13/06/1995 | Twelfth Night | RSC Stratford | |
| 22/07/1999 | Twelfth Night | Barnwell Castle, Oundle | |
| 28/06/2006 | Twelfth Night | George Hotel | |
| 04/10/2006 | Twelfth Night | ADC | |
| 04/12/2006 | Twelfth Night | Bedford | |
| 22/09/2009 | Twelfth Night | Key Theatre | |
| 19/08/2011 | Twelfth Night | Houghton Mill | |
| 16/01/2012 | Twelfth Night | Mumford Theatre on tour | |
| 07/06/2012 | Twelfth Night | Tolethorpe | |
| 06/12/2012 | Twelfth Night | ADC | |
| 30/07/2014 | Twelfth Night | CSF at St John's College | |
| 04/11/2014 | Twelfth Night | English Touring Theatre at CAT | |
| 13/01/2016 | Twelfth Night | ADC | |
| 13/07/2016 | Twelfth Night | CSF at Downing College | |
| 06/04/2017 | Twelfth Night | NTL live at Cineworld | |
| 14/02/2018 | Twelfth Night | RSC relay at Cineworld | |
| 10/08/2018 | Twelfth Night | CSF at Kings College | |
| 01/09/2018 | Twelfth Night | Globe on tour at CAT | |
| 03/08/2019 | Twelfth Night | Tolethorpe | |
| 30/10/2019 | Twelfth Night | ADC | |
| 16/01/2021 | Twelfth Night | RSC via Marquee streamed to our home | |
| 04/03/2023 | Twelfth Night | ADC Theatre | |
| 04/07/2026 | Twelfth Night | Tolethorpe |
Record of Operas Seen, altogether on over 900 occasions
| Date | The Operas | The Composers | The Venues | The Performers |
| 31-Oct-14 | A Night at the Opera | various | Key Theatre | various |
| 12-Jan-19 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Apr-20 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jan-21 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 01-May-21 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Nov-21 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Apr-22 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | MET |
| 11-May-24 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Streamed | ROH |
| 29-Feb-20 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Oct-20 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Mar-21 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 09-May-21 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Feb-22 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Aug-22 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Sep-15 | Agrippina | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Feb-14 | Aida | Verdi | Cambs Cornex | Sydney |
| 15-Sep-15 | Aida | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 03-Sep-19 | Aida | Verdi | CAPH | MET |
| 06-Apr-20 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Nov-20 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | Verona |
| 26-Nov-20 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Dec-20 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Dec-20 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | Florence |
| 16-Jan-21 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | Florence |
| 31-Aug-21 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Mar-22 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Jul-22 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Feb-23 | Aida | Verdi | Live | Edinburgh |
| 01-May-23 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Aug-23 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Jan-24 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jul-24 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Jan-25 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Mar-25 | Aida | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Nov-19 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Nov-20 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Feb-21 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Mar-21 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Sep-21 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Apr-22 | Akhnaten | Glass | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Sep-22 | Alcino | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Apr-21 | Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jul-21 | Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jul-21 | Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Streamed | Hungarian Opera |
| 03-Nov-21 | Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 02-May-22 | Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Mar-21 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Aug-21 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Dec-21 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 14-May-22 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Jul-22 | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Jul-21 | Arabella | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Nov-21 | Arabella | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Dec-21 | Arabella | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jul-22 | Arabella | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 13-May-20 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Dec-20 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Feb-21 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Aug-21 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 16-Aug-21 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Oct-21 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Feb-22 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jul-22 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jun-20 | Armida | Rossini | Streamed | ETO |
| 17-Sep-21 | Armida | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Apr-22 | Armida | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Mar-24 | Armida | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Jun-22 | Beatrice & Benedict | Berlioz | streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 13-Jul-20 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 28-Jun-21 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jul-21 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 08-Apr-22 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Sep-22 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Sep-24 | Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jun-20 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Nov-20 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Apr-21 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Oct-21 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Streamed | MET |
| 07-May-22 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Feb-15 | Bluebeard's Castle | Bartók | Cineworld | ROH |
| 14-Apr-20 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Oct-20 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Dec-20 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Oct-21 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Oct-21 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | CAPH | MET |
| 01-May-22 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Aug-22 | Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | Streamed | MET |
| 07-May-20 | Capriccio | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Mar-21 | Capriccio | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 29-May-21 | Capriccio | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Jul-21 | Capriccio | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 17-May-22 | Capriccio | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Mar-11 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Live Theatre Relay |
| 04-Mar-13 | Carmen | Bizet | CambsCornEx | Ellen Kent |
| 01-Nov-14 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Oct-15 | Carmen | Bizet | CambsCornEx | Ellen Kent |
| 13-Sep-16 | Carmen | Bizet | Cressett Theatre | Russian State Opera |
| 06-Mar-18 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | ROH |
| 02-Feb-19 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jul-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Sep-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | ROH |
| 11-Oct-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | ROH |
| 13-Nov-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Dec-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Dec-20 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Verona |
| 18-Jan-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Feb-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Apr-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Verona |
| 02-Jun-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jun-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Verona |
| 14-Sep-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Oct-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Oct-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Tokyo |
| 24-Nov-21 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Jan-22 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Sydney Harbour |
| 26-Jun-23 | Carmen | Bizet | Recorded | Vienna |
| 21-Sep-22 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Oct-23 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | Sydney Harbour |
| 27-Jan-24 | Carmen | Bizet | Cineworld | MET |
| 19-Jun-24 | Carmen | Bizet | Sreamed | La Scala, Milan |
| 20-Jul-24 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Sep-24 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Sep-24 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Nov-25 | Carmen | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Apr-15 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Cineworld | MET |
| 09-May-20 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Oct-20 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | ROH |
| 04-Dec-20 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Feb-21 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jul-21 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Apr-22 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jul-24 | Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | Mascagni & Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Apr-18 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Cineworld | MET |
| 28-Jun-20 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Dec-20 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Dec-20 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jan-21 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 23-Jan-21 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | ROH |
| 12-Apr-21 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Jul-21 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 30-Aug-21 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Jan-22 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Mar-22 | Cendrillon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Dec-23 | Cendrillon | Blanchard | CAPH | MET |
| 31-Mar-18 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 12-Apr-20 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jun-20 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 29-Sep-20 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Oct-20 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Apr-14 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 17-Oct-16 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Cineworld | ROH |
| 22-Jan-21 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | Scottish Opera |
| 13-Jun-21 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Aug-21 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Aug-21 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Dec-21 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Feb-22 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | la Scala |
| 22-Jul-24 | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Mar-20 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 12-Nov-20 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 08-Feb-21 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Aug-21 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Sep-21 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Oct-21 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 22-Dec-21 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | Staatskapelle Weimar |
| 07-Feb-22 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Jun-22 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | streamed | Berlin |
| 23-Jun-22 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Aug-23 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Jul-23 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Cineworld | ROH |
| 04-Jul-24 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Dec-24 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Nov-25 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Apr-24 | Dead Men Walking | Jake Heggie | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Nov-21 | Death in Venice | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | ENO |
| 29-Jan-21 | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Mar-21 | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Sep-21 | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Oct-21 | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Mar-22 | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 13-May-17 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Cineworld | Glyndebourne |
| 05-Nov-18 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | CAPH | MET |
| 19-Apr-20 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 07-Jul-20 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Jul-20 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Jan-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 13-May-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Jul-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Aug-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Oct-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | Garsington |
| 08-Nov-21 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Jul-22 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Apr-23 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | CAPH | MET |
| 26-Nov-24 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Nov-20 | Dialogues des Carmélites | Poulenc | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Feb-21 | Dialogues des Carmélites | Poulenc | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Dec-20 | Die Fledermaus | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Aug-21 | Die Fledermaus | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Apr-22 | Die Fledermaus | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jul-16 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Cineworld | MET |
| 28-Mar-20 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 06-Sep-20 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Nov-20 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jul-21 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Oct-21 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Feb-22 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Jul-22 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 18-May-24 | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Wagner | Streamed | Madrid |
| 02-Apr-19 | Die Walküre | Wagner | CAPH | MET |
| 25-Mar-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Jun-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Aug-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Oct-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Nov-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 28-Nov-20 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jan-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Feb-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Mar-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jun-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Aug-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Sep-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Sep-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Oct-21 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 03-Jan-22 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Feb-22 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jun-22 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Aug-23 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Aug-22 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Cineworld | MET |
| 20-Sep-17 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | MET | MET |
| 20-May-18 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | CAPH | MET |
| 04-Dec-18 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | CAPH | Ingmar Bergman |
| 19-Jun-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 24-Jun-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 28-Jun-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Aug-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Oct-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Dec-20 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Mar-21 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Sep-21 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Oct-21 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 11-Jan-22 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 02-Sep-22 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jan-24 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jun-23 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | CAPH | MET |
| 03-Jan-24 | Die Zauberflote | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Apr-20 | Don Carlo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Oct-20 | Don Carlo | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Nov-20 | Don Carlo | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Jun-21 | Don Carlo | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Mar-22 | Don Carlo | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 30-Aug-22 | Don Carlo | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Apr-16 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | CAT | ETO |
| 22-Oct-16 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 08-Oct-19 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Cineworld | ROH |
| 22-May-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jun-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 03-Jul-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Aug-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Oct-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Nov-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 04-Dec-20 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | Barcelona |
| 25-Jan-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Feb-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Mar-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 11-May-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Jul-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | Prague |
| 16-Oct-21 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Mar-22 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 23-May-23 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | CAPH | MET |
| 24-Oct-19 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Cineworld | MET |
| 18-Oct-20 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Jul-21 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 19-Nov-21 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Mar-22 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Jul-22 | Don Pasquale | Donizetti | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 03-May-21 | Electra | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Dec-21 | Electra | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Apr-22 | Electra | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Apr-19 | Elizabeth I | Rossini | CAT | OH |
| 26-May-20 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Aug-20 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 31-Dec-20 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Feb-21 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Feb-21 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Oct-21 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Dec-21 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Mar-22 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Aug-22 | Ernani | Verdi | Streamed | Rome |
| 05-Oct-13 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Cineworld | MET |
| 22-Apr-17 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Cineworld | Moscow |
| 06-Apr-19 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | APH | MET |
| 22-Mar-20 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Jul-20 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Feb-21 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Nov-20 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Mar-21 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Dec-21 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Apr-22 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Aug-24 | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Dec-21 | Eurydice | Aucoin | Cineworld | MET |
| 08-Apr-20 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jul-20 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 26-Jul-20 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Aug-20 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | ROH |
| 23-Oct-20 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jan-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | Pfalztheater Kaiser |
| 28-Jan-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Feb-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Mar-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jun-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Jun-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | Pfalztheater Kaiser |
| 13-Aug-21 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Jan-22 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | Grange Park |
| 01-Jul-22 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 07-Sep-22 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Apr-23 | Falstaff | Verdi | CAPH | MET |
| 14-Jul-24 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Sep-23 | Falstaff | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Apr-19 | Faust | Gounod | Cineworld | ROH |
| 23-May-20 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jul-20 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | ROH |
| 17-Nov-20 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Apr-21 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jun-21 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Aug-21 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jan-22 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jul-22 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Sep-24 | Faust | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 28-May-21 | Fedora | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Apr-22 | Fedora | Giordano | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Apr-21 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jun-21 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Nov-21 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | La Scala |
| 09-Apr-22 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jul-22 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Oct-24 | Fidelio | Beethoven | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Dec-23 | Florencia en el Amazonas | Daniel Catán | Streamed | Cineworld |
| 17-May-24 | Florencia en el Amazonas | Danial Catan | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jul-20 | Francesca da Rimini | Zardonai | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Dec-20 | Francesca da Rimini | Zardonai | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Apr-21 | Francesca da Rimini | Zandonai | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Aug-20 | Giulio Cesare | Handel | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 17-Aug-22 | Giulio Cesare | Handel | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 13-Apr-23 | Giulio Cesare | Handel | live | ETO |
| 27-Mar-20 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Oct-20 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Nov-20 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 20-Dec-20 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Aug-21 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Sep-21 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Oct-21 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Oct-21 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Purchased | Bayreuth |
| 07-Mar-22 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Aug-22 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jul-24 | Gotterdammerung | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Jul-15 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Cineworld | MET |
| 05-May-20 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Aug-20 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 25-Nov-20 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Feb-21 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 23-Apr-21 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 05-May-21 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Nov-21 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Apr-22 | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Jun-22 | Hamlet | Brett Dean | streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 15-Apr-21 | Hansel and Gretel | Humperdinck | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Dec-21 | Hansel and Gretel | Humperdinck | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Apr-22 | Hansel and Gretel | Humperdinck | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Oct-14 | Due Foscari | Verdi | Cineworld | ROH |
| 18-Sep-22 | I Lombardi | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Jun-20 | I Puritani | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Jan-21 | I Puritani | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-May-21 | I Puritani | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Sep-21 | I Puritani | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Apr-22 | I Puritani | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Mar-17 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 06-Apr-19 | Idomeneo | Mozart | CAT | MET |
| 18-May-20 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Oct-20 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Nov-20 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Mar-21 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 18-May-21 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jun-21 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Oct-21 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Apr-22 | Idomeneo | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Nov-14 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Cineworld | ENO |
| 19-Oct-15 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Cineworld | Glyndebourne |
| 14-Jul-19 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Cineworld | MET |
| 31-Mar-20 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Jul-20 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 19-Oct-20 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Dec-20 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | Verona |
| 13-Dec-20 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Feb-21 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Mar-21 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Apr-21 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-May-21 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 23-Oct-21 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Apr-22 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Feb-23 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini | Streamed | ROH |
| 19-Apr-18 | Il Tabarro + Gianni Schicchi + Suor Angelica | Puccini | CAT | ROH |
| 06-Jun-20 | Il Tabarro + Gianni Schicchi + Suor Angelica | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 06-Feb-21 | Il Tabarro + Gianni Schicchi + Suor Angelica | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 17-Apr-22 | Il Tabarro + Gianni Schicch + Suor Angelica | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 03-Oct-15 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 31-Jan-17 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Cineworld | ROH |
| 15-Dec-18 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | Rome |
| 03-Aug-20 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Nov-20 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Jan-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Feb-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Feb-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Apr-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Jul-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Sep-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | Rome |
| 10-Oct-21 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Apr-22 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Jun-23 | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Streamed | ROH |
| 14-Apr-23 | Il Viaggio a Reims | Rossini | live | ETO |
| 14-Feb-15 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Cineworld | MET |
| 09-Jun-20 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | ROH |
| 09-Nov-20 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Apr-21 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Oct-21 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | Sweden |
| 31-Oct-21 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Apr-22 | Iolanta | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jun-20 | Iphigénie en Tauride | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Mar-21 | Iphigénie en Tauride | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Sep-21 | Iphigénie en Tauride | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Apr-22 | Iphigénie en Tauride | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jan-22 | L'Amour de loin | Saariaho | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Nov-14 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Cineworld | ROH |
| 10-Feb-18 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Cineworld | MET |
| 30-May-20 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Jun-20 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Oct-20 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jan-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Apr-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 28-May-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | Dutch National Opera |
| 31-Jul-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Sep-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Nov-21 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Mar-22 | L'Elisir d'Amore | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Jun-20 | L’enfant et les Sortilèges | Ravel | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 21-Jun-22 | L’enfant et les Sortilèges | Ravel | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 29-Jun-20 | L’heure Espagnole | Ravel | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Apr-22 | L’heure Espagnole | Ravel | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jan-13 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 30-Nov-13 | La Bohème | Puccini | West Road | MET |
| 05-Apr-14 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | ETO |
| 28-May-15 | La Bohème | Puccini | CAT | ROH |
| 10-Jun-15 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | Sicily |
| 05-Jul-17 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 03-Oct-17 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 13-Sep-18 | La Bohème | Puccini | CAT | MET |
| 08-May-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 03-Jul-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Jul-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Sep-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Dec-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 28-Dec-20 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Feb-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Apr-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 10-May-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Jun-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 13-Jul-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Sep-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Dec-21 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jan-22 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | BBC4 |
| 22-Jun-22 | La Bohème | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Sep-22 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | Glyndebourne |
| 09-Feb-23 | La Bohème | Puccini | live | Edinburgh |
| 08-Nov-25 | La Bohème | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 10-May-14 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Cineworld | MET |
| 26-Apr-20 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jul-20 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Oct-20 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Feb-21 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Apr-21 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Oct-21 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Dec-21 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Dec-21 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Mar-22 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Sep-22 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Aug-23 | La Cenerentola | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Jun-20 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Sep-20 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 11-Dec-20 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 30-May-21 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | Bergen |
| 07-Jun-21 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 21-Sep-21 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Apr-22 | La Clemenza di Tito | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 25-May-20 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Mar-21 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Sep-21 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Sep-21 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Sep-21 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Apr-22 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Jul-24 | La Damnation de Faust | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Mar-22 | La Donna del Lago | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Jul-20 | La Donna del Lago | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Jan-21 | La Donna del Lago | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 26-May-21 | La Donna del Lago | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Jan-22 | La Donna del Lago | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Oct-18 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 07-Apr-20 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Jul-20 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Sep-20 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Nov-20 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Mar-21 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Apr-21 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jul-21 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Aug-21 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Dec-21 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Apr-22 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Aug-23 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | streamed | MET |
| 09-Jul-24 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-May-25 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Dec-25 | La Fanciulla del West | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Mar-19 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Cineworld | MET |
| 20-Mar-20 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Jun-20 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Sep-20 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Oct-20 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jun-21 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Sep-21 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jan-22 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Sep-22 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jun-29 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | ENO |
| 02-Jan-21 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Mar-21 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Jun-21 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Dec-20 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Apr-22 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Sep-22 | La Forza el Destino | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Apr-20 | La Rondine | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Sep-20 | La Rondine | Puccini | Streamed | Ukraine |
| 02-May-21 | La Rondine | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jul-21 | La Rondine | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Apr-22 | La Rondine | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Apr-24 | La Rondine | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 20-May-21 | La Sonnambula | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jun-21 | La Sonnambula | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Nov-21 | La Sonnambula | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Apr-22 | La Sonnambula | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Mar-23 | La Traviata | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 18-Sep-15 | La Traviata | Verdi | live, on site | Venice |
| 04-Feb-16 | La Traviata | Verdi | Cineworld | ROH |
| 11-Mar-17 | La Traviata | Verdi | Cineworld | Glyndebourne |
| 08-Jun-17 | La Traviata | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 30-Jan-19 | La Traviata | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 24-Apr-20 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jun-20 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Nov-20 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jan-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Feb-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Apr-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Apr-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 18-Sep-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Sep-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Dec-21 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 03-May-22 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Aug-22 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Sep-22 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | ROH |
| 13-Sep-23 | La Traviata | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 14-May-21 | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Shostakovich | Streamed | Birmingham |
| 16-Apr-20 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Oct-20 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Jan-21 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 30-May-21 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 11-Oct-21 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-May-22 | Le Comte Ory | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Oct-14 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 05-Oct-15 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Nov-17 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | CAP | ETO |
| 21-Apr-18 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | CAT | MET |
| 04-May-20 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 31-May-20 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jul-20 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Sep-20 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 03-Oct-20 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jan-21 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Feb-21 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Mar-21 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | ROH |
| 20-Jul-21 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Jan-22 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | Staatsoper Hannover |
| 11-Jun-22 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 06-Jul-22 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jul-24 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Apr-25 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Cineworld | MET |
| 06-Nov-15 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | West Road | ETO |
| 15-Nov-16 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Cineworld | MET |
| 04-Aug-20 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Dec-21 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Streamed | MET |
| 08-May-22 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Oct-24 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Cineworld | MET |
| 15-Jan-25 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Cineworld | ROH |
| 03-Apr-20 | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jan-21 | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jul-21 | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 09-May-22 | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jun-22 | Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Bizet | Streamed | MET |
| 28-May-20 | Les Troyans | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Sep-20 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Dec-20 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Feb-21 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Nov-21 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 12-May-22 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Jul-24 | Les Troyens | Berlioz | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Oct-14 | Life on the Moon | Haydn | West Road | ETO |
| 04-Nov-21 | L'Italiana in Algeri | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 13-May-22 | L'Italiana in Algeri | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jul-22 | L'Italiana in Algeri | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-May-20 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | ROH |
| 15-Dec-20 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Apr-21 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Oct-21 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 15-May-22 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Mar-23 | Lohengrin | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Apr-16 | Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti | Cineworld | ROH |
| 21-Mar-20 | Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Apr-23 | Lucrezia Borgia | Rossini | live | ETO |
| 14-Apr-18 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 02-May-20 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Apr-21 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Jun-21 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 16-May-22 | Luisa Miller | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Mar-22 | Lulu | Berg | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Aug-21 | Lulu | Berg | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Mar-21 | Macbeth | Verdi | Cineworld | ROH |
| 04-Apr-18 | Macbeth | Verdi | Cineworld | ETO |
| 05-Apr-19 | Macbeth | Verdi | CAT | MET |
| 04-Apr-20 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jul-20 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | Ellen Kent |
| 03-Dec-20 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Jan-21 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Jun-21 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jul-21 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Nov-21 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Apr-24 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Mar-26 | Macbeth | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Apr-12 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Cambs CornEx | Australia |
| 08-Sep-14 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 30-Mar-17 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 21-Jun-18 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | CAP | MET |
| 09-Nov-19 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 17-Apr-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jul-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Aug-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 24-Sep-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Dec-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | ROH |
| 23-Dec-20 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 08-May-21 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jul-21 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Oct-21 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | Opera Australia |
| 27-Dec-21 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Mar-22 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Sep-22 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Sep-22 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 16-Apr-23 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Streamed | St Ives CornEx |
| 07-Sep-23 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Cineworld | Bregenz |
| 02-Feb-24 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | New Theatre | Ukrain |
| 24-May-20 | Manon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Apr-21 | Manon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Sep-21 | Manon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jan-22 | Manon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Sep-22 | Manon | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Jun-14 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 26-Oct-19 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 23-Sep-20 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jul-21 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Oct-21 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Mar-22 | Manon Lescaut | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Oct-20 | Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Streamed | MET | |
| 09-Jan-21 | Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Jun-21 | Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jul-22 | Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jul-23 | Medea | Cherubini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Feb-14 | Nabucco | Verdi | Corn Ex | MET |
| 17-May-20 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | ROH |
| 08-Dec-20 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | Verona |
| 19-Dec-20 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 21-May-21 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Jul-21 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Feb-22 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Sep-22 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Sep-23 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Jan-24 | Nabucco | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 03-Jul-24 | Nabucco | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Apr-20 | Norma | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Sep-20 | Norma | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Mar-21 | Norma | Bellini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-May-22 | Norma | Bellin | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Jun-20 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jun-20 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Mar-21 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Sep-21 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Dec-21 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 22-May-22 | Orfeo ed Euridice | Gluck | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jun-17 | Otello | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 06-Jun-20 | Otello | Verdi | Streamed | ROH |
| 22-Jul-22 | Otello | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Oct-14 | Ottone | Handel | West Road | ETO |
| 25-Apr-15 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Cineworld | MET |
| 09-May-20 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Oct-20 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | ROH |
| 04-Dec-20 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Feb-21 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jul-21 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Apr-22 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jul-24 | Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Dec-13 | Parsifal | Wagner | Cineworld | MET |
| 07-Aug-20 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Dec-20 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jan-21 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | Berlin |
| 14-Aug-21 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Mar-22 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Sep-22 | Parsifal | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 26-May-17 | Paul Bunyan | Benjamin Britten | Mumford Theatre | Live |
| 07-Nov-15 | Pelleas and Melisande | Debussy | West Road | ETO |
| 23-Feb-14 | Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | Cineworld | ENO |
| 14-May-20 | Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Nov-20 | Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Mar-21 | Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 23-May-22 | Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Sep-20 | Porgy & Bess | Gershwin | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Feb-21 | Porgy & Bess | Gershwin | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Jun-21 | Porgy & Bess | Gershwin | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Feb-22 | Porgy & Bess | Gershwin | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Mar-14 | Prince Igor | Borodin | Cineworld | MET |
| 03-May-20 | Prince Igor | Borodin | Streamed | MET |
| 25-May-21 | Prince Igor | Borodin | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Oct-21 | Prince Igor | Borodin | Streamed | MET |
| 25-May-22 | Prince Igor | Borodin | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Aug-21 | Richard Nixon in China | John Adams | Streamed | MET |
| 27-May-22 | Richard Nixon in China | John Adams | Streamed | MET |
| 16-Jan-18 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Cineworld | Austria |
| 19-Sep-19 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Cineworld | MET |
| 16-May-20 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Jul-20 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Dec-20 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Jan-21 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Apr-21 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Jun-21 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Sep-21 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jan-22 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jun-22 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jul-24 | Rigoletto | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Jun-20 | Rinaldo | Handel | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 25-Jul-22 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Cineworld | MET |
| 17-Oct-20 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Mar-21 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 16-May-21 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Oct-21 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 28-May-22 | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Jun-20 | Rodelinda | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 04-May-21 | Rodelinda | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Nov-21 | Rodelinda | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 29-May-22 | Rodelinda | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Apr-20 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Jul-20 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Nov-20 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Apr-21 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Oct-21 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 30-May-22 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Sep-24 | Roméo et Juliette | Gounod | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Feb-17 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Cineworld | MET |
| 29-Feb-17 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Cineworld | MET |
| 29-Feb-17 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Cineworld | MET |
| 03-Apr-20 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Nov-20 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Mar-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Jun-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Aug-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Apr-22 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jun-22 | Rusalka | Dvorak | streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 10-Sep-22 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Dec-23 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Mar-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Jun-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Aug-21 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Apr-22 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jun-22 | Rusalka | Dvorak | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 10-Sep-22 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Dec-23 | Rusalka | Dvořák | Streamed | MET |
| 31-May-20 | Salome | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Nov-20 | Salome | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Jul-21 | Salome | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Sep-21 | Salome | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jul-22 | Salome | Strauss | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Oct-18 | Samson et Delila | Saint-Saens | Cineworld | MET |
| 24-Jun-20 | Samson et Delila | Saint-Saens | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Dec-20 | Samson et Delila | Saint-Saëns | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Jun-21 | Samson et Delila | Saint-Saëns | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Aug-00 | Samson et Delila | Saint-Saëns | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Mar-18 | Semiramide | Rossini | Cineworld | MET |
| 16-Jun-20 | Semiramide | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Nov-21 | Semiramide | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Jul-22 | Semiramide | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Sep-23 | Semiramide | Rossini | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Mar-20 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 09-Oct-20 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Nov-20 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Aug-21 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 03-Sep-21 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 10-Oct-21 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Oct-21 | Siegfried | Wagner | Recording | Bayreuth |
| 11-Feb-22 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Aug-22 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | Longborough |
| 21-Aug-22 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Jul-24 | Siegfried | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Aug-20 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Oct-20 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Apr-21 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Jun-21 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Mar-22 | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 31-Oct-15 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Cineworld | MET |
| 29-Mar-20 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Jul-20 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Oct-20 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Aug-21 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Sep-21 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 08-Aug-22 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Aug-23 | Tannhäuser | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jun-20 | Thaïs | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jan-21 | Thaïs | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 24-May-21 | Thaïs | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Oct-21 | Thaïs | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 24-Dec-21 | The Bartered Bride | Smetana | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Sep-22 | The Enchanted Island | Handel | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Jun-20 | The Exterminating Angel | Thomas Ades | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Aug-20 | The Fairy Queen | Purcell | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 06-Aug-21 | The Fairy Queen | Purcell | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 06-Jan-22 | The Fairy Queen | Purcell | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 20-Sep-21 | The First Emperor | Tan Dun | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jun-20 | The Ghost of Versailles | Corigliano | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Apr-23 | The Mariage of Figaro | Mozart | CAPH | ROH |
| 13-Mar-22 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Jan-15 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Cineworld | MET |
| 23-Apr-20 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Oct-20 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Dec-20 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Apr-21 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Aug-21 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Dec-21 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 12-Jul-22 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jul-24 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Dec-24 | The Merry Widow | Lehár | BBC TV | Glyndebourne |
| 09-Apr-21 | The Nose (2013) | Shostakovich | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jan-19 | The Queen of Spades | Tchaikovsky | Cineworld | MET |
| 23-Feb-21 | The Queen of Spades | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 23-May-21 | The Queen of Spades | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Jul-22 | The Queen of Spades | Tchaikovsky | Streamed | MET |
| 12-May-20 | The Tempest | Thomas Ades | Streamed | MET |
| 06-Sep-20 | The Tempest | Thomas Ades | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Dec-20 | The Tempest | Thomas Ades | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jun-21 | The Tempest | Thomas Ades | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Jan-21 | The Turn of the Screw | Benjamin Britten | Streamed | OperaGlass |
| 03-Aug-22 | The Wreckers | Ethel Smyth | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 03-Mar-13 | Tosca | Puccini | CornEx | Ellen Kent |
| 29-Apr-17 | Tosca | Puccini | CAPH | ROH |
| 07-Feb-18 | Tosca | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 17-Nov-19 | Tosca | Puccini | Scottish Opera | Edinburgh |
| 21-Apr-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Jun-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Jul-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 17-Aug-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Sep-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Nov-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | New Zealand |
| 06-Dec-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 29-Dec-20 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jan-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Feb-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 14-Mar-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 14-May-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | Sweden |
| 14-Jul-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Oct-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Nov-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | Madrid |
| 25-Nov-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Dec-21 | Tosca | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 01-Dec-23 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 07-Jun-24 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | Palma |
| 15-Oct-24 | Tosca | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 23-Mar-20 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Oct-20 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 04-Apr-21 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 12-May-21 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Nov-21 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Aug-23 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Streamed | MET |
| 30-Sep-69 | Turandot | Puccini | records missing | ?? |
| 30-Jan-16 | Turandot | Puccini | Cineworld | Sidney |
| 28-Apr-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-May-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 15-Jul-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 13-Aug-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 26-Sep-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Glyndebourne |
| 21-Nov-20 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 21-Feb-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 25-Feb-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Madrid |
| 17-Apr-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 31-May-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Jul-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Oct-21 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Australia |
| 20-Jul-22 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Aug-22 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Geneva |
| 05-Feb-23 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Geneva |
| 11-Aug-23 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | Finland |
| 09-Jul-24 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 01-Apr-25 | Turandot | Puccini | Cineworld | ROH |
| 22-Mar-26 | Turandot | Puccini | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Aug-26 | Turandot | Puccini | Cineworld | MET |
| 20-May-20 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 22-Jan-21 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Feb-21 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Feb-21 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 20-Nov-21 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 18-Dec-21 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 27-Jan-22 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 19-Sep-22 | Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Nov-15 | Werther | Massenet | West Road | MET |
| 27-Jun-16 | Werther | Massenet | Cineworld | ROH |
| 11-May-20 | Werther | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 02-Apr-21 | Werther | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 05-Sep-21 | Werther | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 28-Nov-21 | Werther | Massenet | Streamed | MET |
| 11-Jan-20 | Wosseck | Berg | Cineworld | MET |
| 07-May-21 | Wosseck | Berg | Streamed | MET |
All of the operas are available for streaming to one's home from the New York Metropolitan Opera, some of them from any of several productions recorded in different years.
Here another topic which has increasingly interested me
Religions Challenged
Introduction
This started out to be a perfectly acceptable and honest account of the need for, and the history of, the worldwide creation of religions. I had no idea where it would end up, and was quite surprised to see where it has done so.
It has unexpectedly and apologetically ended up as being very controversial.
It is standard practice within religions, to accept that whatever you were taught about religions as a child is unquestionably correct and to brook no counterargument. Please take one step back and look at the wealth of relevant evidence.
The starting point for each of the following arguments is sound and credible. The way in which each argument then unfolds is logical and difficult to challenge. The fundamental problem is that the inevitable conclusions are universally unacceptable and would rouse widespread hostility towards anyone claiming them to be true; but if they are not true, then where in the chain of each argument has the error occurred?
Please take careful note that everything herein is factual, shorn of any personal opinions.
Please do not waste time trying to challenge “the way I think” about this subject, since it is totally irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Please focus on the facts revealed. Thank you.
The First Argument. The historic reason for a belief in a God
Animal species other than Homo Sapiens are only interested in surviving, eating, drinking, resting, sleeping, socialising and propagating. They lack the mental ability to think more widely. (It follows that battery hens do not feel that they are missing out on anything available to free-range hens). For thousands of years, we Homo Sapiens have always been intelligent enough to be the only exception. We all wanted to know:
- Where we came from in the first place, specifically, how we were created.
- How the countless species of plants and animals on Planet Earth were created.
- How Planet Earth itself was created.
This puzzlement and quest for an explanation was solved in all societies thousands of years ago by reasoning that there must be a Creator (a God or Gods or Deity or Allah or Jehovah) somewhere, who had created Planet Earth and all of the plant and animal species on it. This was completely logical, and it was accepted world-wide without argument.
The Second Argument. The world-wide introduction of religions
For thousands of years there has been a quite logical belief that we must display our gratitude to God for having created us, resulting in religions springing up in all societies. In some cases they were altruistic, but in other cases they were clearly an excuse for dictatorship; in the UK in the days of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, for example, atheism was a capital offence, and Marlowe was condemned to death for his own atheism. It would be very challenging for any of them to attract and retain adherents without promising them a tangible benefit, and the most obvious one, which often remains today, is the assurance of a happy afterlife for all who follow their doctrine to the letter, historically on occasions even suggesting an eternity in hell for disbelievers. This promise of an afterlife is an easy one to make since it requires no proof.
Everything that has had a ‘beginning’ must also have an ‘end’, and everything that has an 'end' must also have had a 'beginning'. If life never ends, then it is everlasting and can never have had a beginning, either. Since our lives do have a beginning, they cannot be 'ever'-lasting and must therefore have an end.
Each different religion has a slightly different definition of the exact doctrine to be followed, which is obviously necessary to retain adherents and stop them straying. Each religion is convinced that all other religions have got it either slightly or very wrong. How can any of the many specific religions or belief systems convincingly prove to the world that theirs is the only faith to have got it exactly right, and the rest of them haven't, when the rest of them form the overwhelming majority? The most obvious likelihood, surely, is that there is no such proof, and that none of them have got it right. You will not like this conclusion, but it is difficult to challenge based on logic or on any irrefutable evidence. It can only be challenged by your own minority religion's beliefs.
The Third Argument. The tables have been turned
We now understand evolution, since we now know beyond any doubt that each successive generation of any species of plant or animal life, including we ourselves, have very minute genetic mutations. Those mutations making their survival more likely in the slowly changing environment they find themselves in, encourage their future propagation, and thus the exceedingly slow evolution from early species to later species. This is wholly factual and has world-wide agreement beyond argument. It was first realised and explained by Charles Darwin in his book "On the Origin of Species", published in 1859, and it has since been conclusively proved by examining and dating the fossilised remains of many long-deceased animal species.
We also understand how evolution created the stars and planets long after the Big Bang, together with all of our Planet Earth’s complex geology.
Evolution, therefore, conclusively proves that the First Argument, (insisting that there must have been a God to have created everything in the universe), is unnecessary, since there is obviously no need for one at all. There is nothing that happens to the universe or to the many species of plant and animal life that doesn’t happen quite naturally without the involvement of any God. This does NOT mean that there is no God, merely that the historical justification for that belief needs to be replaced by an explanation that is more readily acceptable worldwide.
The principal challenge to this conclusion is probably that prayer to God has sometimes had significantly positive benefits, which I accept. However, those making such claims might not be taking into account ‘mental causation’. Let me explain. There was a period in my teenage years when I experienced regular attacks of migraine. On one occasion when I was completely free of migraine, I let my mind wander, thinking about the several symptoms, and in just a couple of minutes they all manifested themselves. That set me thinking. I asked an old friend to phone me at work at some unspecified time in the next couple of weeks or so and just mention the word migraine. He did so, and I immediately thought about the symptoms, and in just a few minutes they all manifested themselves. That was the very last migraine episode I ever experienced. Mental causation! It must surely work in the reverse direction, as well, healing and preventing illnesses as well as causing them. I proved this to my own personal satisfaction by going over 50 years without ever taking or needing any medications or inoculations, other than legally mandatory ones, such as when COVID-19 inoculations were insisted on before joining booked oceanic cruises or obtaining travel insurance for them.
The Fourth Argument. The belief in an afterlife
The evolution of all animal life takes place extremely slowly, taking many hundreds of millions of years for any significant changes to take place, as you can see by comparing statues of Romans carved 2,000 years ago with how we look today, proving that there are no obvious evolutionary changes in merely 2,000 years. However, moving from not having an afterlife to having one is an abrupt step change. There are three possibilities:
The First possibility is that we are the only species with an afterlife.
Our evolution from our very early ancestors, long before even Neanderthals, took place exceedingly slowly, taking many thousands of millions of years. The problem is that if our very early ancestors had no afterlife, but we now do, then an abrupt step change must have taken place to suddenly create an afterlife. Did it take place at the same instant in time for all members of the evolving species? When did it take place? Why did it take place? How did it take place? How did it know which evolving species to choose? Who or what had the power to implement it?
The Second possibility is that we are not the only species with an afterlife.
If we are not the only species with an afterlife, what other species have them? Apes? Gorillas? Monkeys? Tigers? Cattle? Cats? Snakes? Garden Slugs?
The Third possibility is that there is no afterlife.
Since the first two of these three possibilities do not stand up to close scrutiny, the existence of an afterlife is surely just wishful thinking, promoted by religions out of necessity to ensure their survival and success.
What is claimed for an afterlife has varied through the centuries. In most doctrines, it is delightfully vague, since nobody knows anything about what 'life' is like in the 'afterlife', (which is a grammatical contradiction, anyway). The most colourful version is probably the Viking’s Valhalla.
The Fifth and Final Argument. Death
Up to the instant you die you are generally unaware that you are about to die.
Unless someone can positively prove otherwise, (which is impossible), the instant you die you are unaware that you have died, since there is no longer anything in existence that is capable of knowing anything; no afterlife and therefore no existing soul, spirit, or mentality, nothing capable of knowing anything. No afterlife!
This obviously means that death is not to be feared on any grounds, since the deceased no longer mentally exists to know that it has happened. Once life is no longer worth living, it should therefore be made legally possible to charitably terminate it, to draw pain and misery to a close. Please reflect on this obvious truism. Those enduring terminal misery in care homes would most certainly benefit.
It also means that the only reasons to attend a funeral are either political or to support any of your personal friends who are the bereaved close relatives of your deceased friend. But surely, it also challenges the need for a funeral at all, and graveyards serve no practical purpose.
A Final Afterthought
If there was indeed a God with the very considerable power needed to have created Planet Earth, Homo Sapiens, all plant and animal life and our global environment, then God would certainly possess the very much lesser power needed to prevent warfare and planetary destruction due to global warming and climate change. Religions only address the way we think about these serious issues, (which is irrelevant), they have never been able to address the issues themselves, (which is what we need). What does prayer achieve? Anything? What does an "all-knowing" God need to be told?
Over to you
You undoubtedly cannot accept these conclusions. The challenge you need to address is explaining (and proving) where a flaw exists in the above chain of logical arguments. Over to you.
Ordnance Survey Mapping Errors
(which are greater than the OS admits)
Two Fallacies:
”The UK’s Ordnance Survey maps are reliably accurate”
”If the map says that’s where it is, then that’s definitely where it !”
The above statements have been the accepted wisdom for decades, but unfortunately they are incorrect, particularly for OS maps in the 1:50K Landranger series. The following clear and unequivocal evidence reveals that this mapping merely depicts the approximate position of many map features with errors of up to 65 metres, and cannot be considered accurate enough to support very precise micro-navigation or very precise orienteering. This is a bold claim, but the following irrefutable facts speak for themselves. Although OS maps in the 1:25K Explorer series are considerably better, they still show lessor errors in exactly the same places.
The evidence presented here is based on 2012 Landranger (1:50k) and 2014 Explorer (1:25k) Ordnance Survey digital mapping of the Yorkshire Dales, specifically in the area of the ‘Yorkshire 3 Peaks’ (Y3P), Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent. Because of the controversial nature of the conclusions, and to prevent pointless challenges, the methodology will be explained before the evidence itself is presented.
The author has walked the circuit of the Y3P on more than two dozen occasions in the past decade, the route followed being the same on each occasion except for a variation at only one point of the route, in that either of two options were used for the route between Nether Lodge and the Ribblehead viaduct; one is the conventional route heading westward from Nether Lodge along the farm road then northwards along the B6479; the other route avoids road-walking by heading northwards from Nether Lodge along the Ribble Way, then usually westwards across Runscar. These are shown clearly in Annex A.
Walking such a route carrying a GPS Data Logger provides a track which may be superimposed onto the digital mapping to provide evidence of the route taken. For many years I have carried such a data logger, pictured above, on all mountain and ski excursions, usually set for an update interval of 5 seconds, to provide a date-time-stamped log of exactly where I have been. All of the snips of digital maps in this article show numerous GPS tracks of exactly the same walked route, all superimposed one on top of the other. From the startling precision with which they almost precisely overlap each other, often almost merging into just one trace, it is clear that GPS tracks must be more consistently accurate than many users have been led to believe.
On one of these Y3P trips, proof was obtained that the GPS was definitely complying with the OSGB36 datum, by assuming that Trig Points will always be shown in their correct position on maps, even if nothing else is. There are three widely dispersed Trig Points on the route, on the summits of Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent. By walking slowly in a straight line directly towards each of these Trig Points, then walking slowly away from it in another precise compass direction, turning round and walking slowly back to the Trig Point in the reverse direction, then repeating this out-and-back procedure in a couple of other arbitrary compass directions, you end up with a precise indication of where the GPS system records the position of the Trig Point. Here are the same results displayed on both 1:50K Landranger mapping (upper 3 snips) and 1:25K Explorer mapping (lower 3 snips).
This proves two things beyond any doubt;
- firstly, that the GPS receivers were definitely set to the correct OSGB36 datum, and
- secondly, that the GPS network agrees with OS mapping about the position of Trig Points.
Mapping Errors
One good example of a mapping error evident on the 1:25K Explorer maps (but curiously not on the 1:50K Landranger maps), is that the Trig Point on the summit of Ingleborough is shown to be collocated with the summit ‘Viewpoint’, thus:
In reality these two features are anything but collocated, as you can clearly see from the following three photographs of the Trig Point, the Summit Cairn and the Viewpoint
The depiction on OS maps of footpaths, railway lines, streams, bridges and roads is unfortunately much less accurate than it is for Trig Points. Starting with footpaths, a good example is the approach to Whernside from the east, after leaving Ribblehead northwards on the footpath to the east of the railway line and then crossing the line at an aqueduct. The only footpath on the route has been there for decades and is illustrated here, looking down the path from west to east:
In the table below are shown snips from 1:50K Landranger and 1:25K Explorer mapping depicting this footpath. In the left hand column is the raw mapping. In the right hand column 17 GPS tracks recorded on 17 different occasions have been added. The upper 2 snips are of 1:50K Landranger mapping and the lower two are of 1:25K Explorer mapping. Since the 17 tracks have almost merged into one, they must indicate the true position of this footpath. This very old and very obvious footpath is clearly not depicted accurately at all, particularly on 1:50K mapping, and it is just one example out of countless many.
The slight track divergence, upper left, was due to the flagged path having sunk through the years making it a water-course in wet weather. On one occasion it had frozen overnight after a day of rain, making the flags unsafe, so a parallel route was taken off the path.
Now consider the depiction of the Settle-Carlisle railway line, which has been in the same position since the 1870’s. The following snips are of the line running northwards from Ribblehead towards the aqueduct and the tunnel.
If OS maps were indeed completely accurate, this would provide conclusive proof that I must have been trespassing on the Settle-Carlisle railway line by walking along the bed of the track on each of 17 occasions recorded over a period of several years, whereas in fact I was following the footpath to the east of it. The inescapable conclusion is that neither Landranger nor Explorer maps always show railway lines in their correct position, occasionally showing a significant mapping error.
At the aqueduct, the stream crosses just to the south of the footpath, which means that the stream is shown on the 1:50K Landranger map to the north-east of its correct position at the aqueduct, with a mapping error of 45 metres, proving that neither streams nor bridges are necessarily shown on 1:50K OS maps in their true position. The distance between the Aqueduct and the tunnel mouth also differs noticeably between the two map series; both cannot be right. Here are some photographs of this aqueduct:
The following snips are of 12 superimposed tracks recorded on 12 widely separated dates, showing the route along the farm road from Nether Lodge to the B6479, and then northwards towards Ribblehead
Next is a comparison of the same G-Trek II trace taken 17th April 2015, shown overlain both on 1:50K Landranger mapping and on Google Earth.
The position of the farm road is obviously inaccurate with a mapping error of up to 65m in the case of the Landranger map, and since I walked along the right-hand (eastern verge) of the road northwards to Ribblehead on each of these 12 occasions, it proves that even the B6479 is shown with a noticeable mapping error. This is what the map is attempting to portray as the sharp bend with the greatest mapping error:
Readers who are sceptical may very easily check the facts for themselves. Just follow my Y3P route recording your track on your own GPS receiver, then download the overlay you obtain onto digital mapping and confirm that your own track shows exactly the same mapping errors in exactly the same places as the multiple overlays that I have relied on to justify the conclusions presented here. A sceptical colleague who accepted this challenge found the same discrepancies, which he said he would have otherwise dismissed as GPS errors.
Although a circumnavigation of the Y3P has been used to illustrate the problem, similar discrepancies have been found almost everywhere else in the UK where routes have been walked by the author carrying a GPS Data Logger; many of these routes have been walked at least twice, and on each of these occasions the GPS tracks overlaid one another almost precisely, proving that the mapping errors that had been revealed were genuine and not due to random or other GPS errors. The problem must therefore be quite widespread, making it a national issue. Nipping one weak counterargument in the bud, it is obvious from the maps that the Data Logger would have enjoyed an uninterrupted view of nearly the entire overhead hemisphere throughout the Y3P route, with no GPS satellites shaded by obstructions.
In Annex B is appended the Ordnance Survey’s explanation of (or excuse for) these mapping errors, followed by an analysis of why and where their arguments seem flawed.
If the depiction of footpaths, railway lines, streams, bridges and roads is so inaccurate, what confidence can we have that contours, crags, re-entrants and any other features are shown in their correct position, particularly in maps in the Landranger series? What effect might this have on the teaching and assessment of micro-navigation on ML and WGL courses? What effect might it have on orienteering?
Conclusions and Advice:
Modern GPS Receivers, ‘if’ correctly set up, ‘if’ correctly used, ‘if’ in full working order, ‘if’ without flat batteries and ‘if’ enjoying an uninterrupted line of site to the overhead hemisphere, are highly accurate, much more so than OS mapping. Although there are undoubtedly a lot of ‘ifs’ to manage, this is not too difficult, but best practice if you are seriously relying on them for navigation is to carry at least two, both with fresh batteries.
Disappointingly and unexpectedly, the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger mapping is not accurate, all-too-often only showing the approximate position of features. This conclusion had not been sought and has come as quite a surprise.
You are warmly invited to counter these conclusions if you can, by producing concrete evidence to refute the methodology, the arguments or the data, and sending full details to the author at mel@blue-roan.org. Be warned though, that the author is a one-time radar system design team member and radar systems instructor and examiner at postgraduate level, which is indeed completely relevant to this issue since the ‘accuracy’ of both radars and GPS depends on exactly the same technology, in that the accuracies of both depend upon their abilities to measure the very minutest differences in the times of arrival of radio signals; the rest is straightforward digital processing, supported by the incontrovertible laws of physics and mathematics. Your counterarguments therefore need to be scientifically sound. I freely admit that there is one obvious counterargument that I have ignored, namely that these errors do not matter to the map user, i.e., the ’So What!’ retort, but this is a highly subjective area in which agreement is unlikely. The point surely is that if such significant errors are obvious to anyone capable of walking anywhere with a cheap easily obtainable GPS receiver, then the Ordnance Survey should at least be more openly acknowledging the existence of the problem and the true extent of the discrepancies, even if unwilling to do anything about it by correcting them.
Annex A:
The full route taken round the Yorkshire 3 Peaks is shown in the snip below. Each overlay is shown as a line either in blue or red, as follows:
Blue: All 17 blue tracks were recorded taking the route variant west from Nether Lodge and then north along the B6479. Dates: 14 May 07, 06 Oct 07, 12 Apr 08, 20 Jun 08, 27 Jun 08, 10 Jul 09, 11 Dec 09, 11 Jun 10, 20 Jun 11, 06 Nov 11, 12 Mar 12, 04 May 13, 01 Dec 13, 17 May 14, 04 Oct 14, 17 Apr 15 and 07 May 15.
Red: All 5 red tracks were recorded taking the route variant north from Nether Lodge along the Ribble Way and then across the Hawes road and along Runscar Scar, (where there is no obvious footpath, resulting in minor route variations). Dates: 23 Apr 04, 18 Jun 04, 14 Oct 05, 14 Jul 06 and 06 Dec 06.
Annex B:
It is worth quoting verbatim from the official Ordnance Survey's website:
”If we were just using GPS, that would be the end of the story. However, we are often trying to relate our position to features on the map, which causes additional problems and errors, because GPS and Ordnance Survey maps use different models for the earth and coordinate systems”
”This is especially the case with height because the model that relates the global coordinate system that GPS uses, WGS84, to map height above sea level is very poor. WGS84 is a modern coordinate system, but maps in Britain are based on the National Grid, which uses an older system known as OSGB36.”
”Although it was surveyed very well for its day, OSGB36 has distortions in it, which have to be taken into account when comparing with GPS-derived coordinates. GPS receivers can correct for the large main offset between the two systems, and it is vitally important to set the receiver's datum (the definition of the coordinate system used) to OSGB36 so that it does so.”
”Please refer to your receiver’s manual for information on how to get your receiver to work with Ordnance Survey maps. Smaller level distortions are still present which could add up to 5m errors when using GPS with Ordnance Survey maps. Most receivers can cope with a variety of coordinate systems for different countries.”
”On top of the nationwide errors in OSGB36, individual features on the map may only have been surveyed to a local accuracy of 7m (for 1:25,000 scale maps) and some features, such as boulders, may only be shown schematically. Of course, this last problem affects anyone trying to position themselves on the map, not just GPS users.”
Conclusions:
- The position errors are vanishingly small at the locations of the 3 widely-spaced Trig Points, casting doubt on any claim that there is any significant datum error in the general area of the Y3P or in the GPS receivers’ interpretation of OSGB36.
- The causes of the errors that the Ordnance Survey are referring to above cannot explain the evidence, in that some of the mapping is very accurate indeed, but with inaccurate mapping being seen just a kilometre away and at a similar altitude, an example being the railway line and footpath running north from Ribblehead. Datum errors cannot change over such a small distance on relatively level ground.
- The extent of the local errors is significantly greater than the 7m that Ordnance Survey acknowledges.