Best Wardour Studios Podcasts (2024)

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TOM DYCKHOFF - Lost in the Hall of Mirrors 41:48

6M ago41:48

41:48

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and broadcaster TOM DYCKHOFF. In a flex to the usual format, Tom opens up his precious childhood scrapbook and shares the postcards that as a seven-year-old he lovingly stuck in as souvenirs of family holidays and day trips. Maps, memories and mysteries. Wish you were here? Hosted…

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HELEN O'HARA - A Glass Elephant 45:46

6M ago45:46

45:46

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past is violinist, musical director and author HELEN O’HARA (Dexy’s Midnight Runners, What She’s Like). Together we meet the knockoff Bee Gees, send a bikini to Birmingham, discover a battleship charm, and ponder Eddie Calvert played backwards. And we’ll hear tales of life on the road, shopping …

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JULIA GILLEN - Chlorine And Salt Do Not Mix 39:18

7M ago39:18

39:18

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past is Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and principal investigator of the Edwardian Postcard Project, JULIA GILLEN (The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective). Together…

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ADAM ANDRUSIER - It's Got a Wave Machine 35:15

8M ago35:15

35:15

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and autograph dealer ADAM ANDRUSIER (The Autograph Hunter). Together we consider fame, authenticity and collecting, encountering on the way the few celebrity inhabitants of Pinner, a reluctant Ray Charles, a broken wrist and a cancelled holiday. We get our pictures drawn by comput…

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MAX LEONARD - A Beat the Tide Contest 45:04

8M ago45:04

45:04

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and traveller MAX LEONARD (Vintage Alpine Postcards, Higher Calling, Bunker Research and Lanterne Rouge). Together we head for the mountains, encountering on the way stolen cakes, power cuts and proof of penguins and pump rooms. We meet the spirit of the glacier, consider imagined…

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LUCY LETHBRIDGE - A Study in Comfort 34:22

9M ago34:22

34:22

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is writer LUCY LETHBRIDGE (Servants, Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves). Together we put on our patented sunset spectacles and consider impulsive trips abroad prompted by postcards, how to plan for the wrestling and the joys of a goo…

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CRISTÍN LEACH - Hold on to the Stuff 39:47

9M ago39:47

39:47

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is art critic, writer and broadcaster CRISTÍN LEACH (Negative Space, From Ten till Dusk, A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in 12 Stories). Together we experience the magic of living below the waterline, put unlikely objects on a colour phot…

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ELLA RAVILIOUS - A Grand Spot for a Holiday 37:30

10M ago37:30

37:30

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is Curator: Design and Architecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and photo-history researcher, ELLA RAVILIOUS (Eric Ravilious: Landscapes and Nature, What Photographs Do: The making and remaking of museum cultures). Together, we pitch Snoopy against T…

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JONATHAN GIBBS - Dinging Frocks and Shoes 29:26

10M ago29:26

29:26

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past - in our new, streamlined format - is writer JONATHAN GIBBS (Randall, The Large Door, Spring Journal, A Personal Anthology). We travel on the Post Bus to Mutiny on the Buses, fall flat on our backs in Paris, avoid the Plague Dogs and take a spin with spiral messages. Wish you were here? Hos…

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RICHARD SMYTH & JAMES HOGG -Clinging Onto The Memory For Dear Life 57:29

11M ago57:29

57:29

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writers JAMES HOGG (Little Ern: The Authorised Biography of Ernie Wise, Hello Darlings! The Authorised Biography of Kenny Everett) and RICHARD SMYTH (The Woodcock, The Jay, The Beech And The Limpetshell). Together, we dine at Romano’s with Phil May, cascade down a lost watersplash, a…

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NIGE TASSELL & GAIL RENARD - The Shrimp Was Fresh & The Picture Is Frozen 1:02:39

11M ago1:02:39

1:02:39

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writers NIGE TASSELL (Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey, Field of Dreams: 100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches) and GAIL RENARD (John Lennon: Give Me a Chance, My Eight Days with John and Yoko, Monty & Co.) We build our postcard world from scratch, scratch, scratch,…

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MIRANDA KEELING & IAN BECK - They've Had Sir Harold Acton Stuffed 46:59

12M ago46:59

46:59

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and writer MIRANDA KEELING (The Year I Stopped to Notice) and illustrator and author IAN BECK (The Light In Suburbia, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road). We discover the eccentric postcard messages of Glynn Boyd Harte, consider a family mystery from 1910, learn how to wear the minimum …

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KAREN AVERBY & ALEX MAYHEW - A Noisy Noise Annoys an Oyster 1:10:27

2+ y ago1:10:27

1:10:27

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are historians Karen Averby (Seaside Hotels, Beach Huts) and, from the London school of Economic, Dr Alex Mayhew. We meet the Brummies of North Devon, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez at the Albert Hall, Mr George next door, and look for a better picture of ruins. Taking a close look at the pos…

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NICHOLAS ROYLE & CLARE MACKINTOSH - A Centipede of Discerning Taste 1:08:57

2+ y ago1:08:57

1:08:57

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writers Nicholas Royle (White Spines, First Novel, Regicide, Antwerp, London Gothic) and Clare Mackintosh (Hostage, After The End, Let Me Lie, I See You). We pull ourselves out of the quick mud and consider the grooves on Mummy Bunny’s face with Aphrodite in the pink nightie; we disc…

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EMMA FLINT & EDWARD PARNELL - Beamed to a Better Life 1:08:45

2+ y ago1:08:45

1:08:45

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writers Emma Flint (Little Deaths) and Edward Parnell (Ghostland). We get a breeze in to cover our unease and anxiety, visit Stonehenge and London Airport, head to Kensington with a Frenchman we met at the airport, risk a pair of harem trousers and consider what goes on behind the ne…

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SARAH GAIL BRAND & PETER MITCHELL - Greetings From Warrington 1:05:45

2+ y ago1:05:45

1:05:45

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are musician Sarah Gail Brand and historian Peter Mitchell (Imperial Nostalgia). We make sure the TV is tuned to Neighbours as we consider the spiritual possibilities of music, the perils of nostalgia (imperial and otherwise), bring the irresponsible archivists into the unfolding chaos o…

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JEREMY BANX & RUTH THOMAS - Eating Peanuts and Watching Cilla Black 1:11:41

2+ y ago1:11:41

1:11:41

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are cartoonist Jeremy Banx (FT, Private Eye, New Statesman) and author Ruth Thomas (The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line, Things to Make and Mend). We head to the trippers’ haunts and bric-a-brac bazaars to consider the Bristol Superfreighter, bubble cars in La Plata, and Blackpoo…

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CATHY RENTZENBRINK & TOBY HANNAM - As Clear As Tap-Water 1:09:27

2+ y ago1:09:27

1:09:27

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are author CATHY RENTZENBRINK (The Last Act of Love, Everyone Is Still Alive) and TOBY HANNAM, whose collection of his grandfather’s correspondence to his father from a Nazi concentration camp are a priceless family - and historical - archive and memoir. We explore postcards as lifelines…

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TIM HAYWARD & ANNEBELLA POLLEN - The Number of the Duck 59:23

2+ y ago59:23

59:23

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are food writer and broadcaster TIM HAYWARD (Loaf Story, Knife, The DIY Cook) and from University of Brighton, academic ANNEBELLA POLLEN (Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life, Nudism in a Cold Climate). We explore the aesthetics of John Hinde postcards, semi-ritual pig…

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TOM SHAKESPEARE & ANNE-MARIE MINHALL - It May Be The Rapture 55:33

2+ y ago55:33

55:33

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are broadcaster and academic TOM SHAKESPEARE (Disability Rights and Wrongs) and Classic FM's ANNE-MARIE MINHALL. We uncover teenage memories from East Anglia, Viking marauders in Newcastle, the cricketing knowhow of Alf Gover and unresolved complexity in Mona Hatoum's sculptures. Plus Mo…

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ALEX VON TUNZELMANN & JACK MCNAMARA - Two Anteaters Were Never Found 1:02:45

2+ y ago1:02:45

1:02:45

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are historian ALEX VON TUNZELMANN (Indian Summer, Fallen Idols) and director and playwright JACK MCNAMARA (Love From Cleethorpes, Dare to Look Down!). We discover embroidered children from Spain, the sinister images of Alfred Hitchcock, fur coats in Beirut and Cairo and imagine the child…

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SUSIE BOYT & ANDREW WILCOX - A Beetroot-Cutting Incident 1:03:47

2+ y ago1:03:47

1:03:47

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writer SUSIE BOYT (My Judy Garland Life, Love and Missed) and the man behind the Shed of the Year, ANDREW WILCOX. We visit a model village, attempt a lock-in with Clint Mansell, suffer to entertain with Jean Barrault, and benefit from a nurse's healing smile. Plus hippies on the Mall…

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JEREMY NOEL-TOD & CORINNE FOWLER - Turtle Soup for the Soul 1:04:31

3y ago1:04:31

1:04:31

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the brilliant Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are poetry critic and Senior Lecturer at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA, JEREMY NOEL-TOD (The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem) and Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester…

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BOB FISCHER & RACHAEL CHADWICK - It's Always A Grey Lady 1:08:53

3y ago1:08:53

1:08:53

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the brilliant Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writer and broadcaster BOB FISCHER (Wiffle Lever To Full!, Summer Winos) and writer and media and communications consultant RACHAEL CHADWICK (60 Postcards). Together, we wade in nostalgia for school outward bound centres, …

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JONATHAN MERES & LIZA ADAMCZEWSKI - Pork Pies At Dawn 1:02:02

3y ago1:02:02

1:02:02

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the brilliant Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are children’s author JONATHAN MERES and artist LIZA ADAMCZEWSKI. Together, we discover the identity of the boy petting the donkey, the houses won in card games, how much Marco found on the beach with his metal detector, who y…

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MARIA MCERLANE & MARK KINGWELL - I Wish I Could Be Here Right Now 57:58

3y ago57:58

57:58

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the wizards at Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actress and broadcaster MARIA MCERLANE and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and author of Wish I Were Here, MARK KINGWELL. Join us as we consider the Woolworth building, mix a Ward Eight, make an artis…

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IAN SHAW & MARTHA LAWTON - A Posh Pen Found in a Phone Box 56:29

3+ y ago56:29

56:29

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the wizards at Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are jazz singer and broadcaster IAN SHAW and money coach and podcaster MARTHA LAWTON. Join us as we put our cards on the table and dive fully-dressed into the swirling waters of Bantham, capture the calm before the storm in B…

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JUSTIN CURRIE & HELEN DAY - No Sunrises, No Sunsets 58:15

3+ y ago58:15

58:15

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded remotely thanks to the wizards at Wardour Studios - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are musician and songwriter JUSTIN CURRIE from Del Amitri, and Ladybird book aficionado HELEN DAY (Ladybirdflyawayhome.com). We confuse baskets for boxes in Veneto, learn the secrets of a cream boy, and discover the postcard …

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ESTHER WEBBER & CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE - There’s Always A Subtext 48:22

3+ y ago48:22

48:22

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are novelist CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE and journalist ESTHER WEBBER. Amongst other postcard diversions, we explore non-threatening boys on a Paris balcony, ponder the twin villages of Brixton and Westminster, the unlimited charm of David…

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SIÂN PATTENDEN & BEN MOOR - Changes Wrought On Our Hometown 45:02

3+ y ago45:02

45:02

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writer & podcaster SIÂN PATTENDEN (Smash Hits, the Guardian, Agatha Bilke, Bigmouth podcast) and writer and performer BEN MOOR (Fist of Fun, A Supercollider for the Family, Undone, Coelacanth, Who Here’s Lost). We get ribbed ab…

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ALEX KEALY & KATE GARNER - INSIDE THE DIPLOMATIC BAG 55:28

3+ y ago55:28

55:28

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian ALEX KEALY and musician KATE GARNER. In an episode littered with aliases, we meet Tompy, Wifey, Ex-Wifey, Bimbo Clive-Barclay and Pottle. We hear memories of Chas Hodges, exploding televisions, Mapp and Lucia and chain…

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HOLLY BURN & DALE SHAW - My Urge Overtook Me 53:16

3+ y ago53:16

53:16

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian HOLLY BURN and comedy writer DALE SHAW. We blow the housekeeping on a daytrip to London with the Backstree Boys and Blood Sausage, meet a dead pig in Westphalia, take tea in Hexham and fist the mousse - as they say in …

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STEPHANIE BUTLAND & CHRIS NEILL - Quite Excited By Kitchen Roll 52:00

3+ y ago52:00

52:00

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and writer CHRIS NEILL (Woof) and novelist STEPHANIE BUTLAND (Lost For Words, The Woman in the Photograph). We cycle from Lands End to a broken tentpole, ponder the mystery floodlights of Ealing, and Unseen Weybridge, …

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SERIES 3 - THE MULTIVIEW 44:27

4+ y ago44:27

44:27

It's the end of Series 3, so we present a multi-view, a series of views of the stories the guests have told host Tom Jackson - all inspired by their postcards, in this third series of Podcast From The Past. We'll hear Scott Pack, Justin Edwards, A.L. Kennedy, Karen Shepherdson, Cariad Lloyd, Keggie Carew, Thane Prince, Tobie Mathew, Sukh Ojla, Juli…

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KERRY SHALE & LUCAS HARE - It Reminds Me Of Me 55:38

4+ y ago55:38

55:38

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are the hosts of the excellent Is It Rolling, Bob? podcast, actors KERRY SHALE and LUCAS HARE. We get stuck inside of Florence, take the big wheel in Yokohama, travel from bedsitland to Athena, meet Mr Natural and consider the challenges of buying Bob Dylan records in York in 1966. Wish …

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SIMON KANE & CHRIS POWER - The Home of Barry Manilow 54:41

4+ y ago54:41

54:41

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and writer SIMON KANE (Time Spanner, North by Northamptonshire, Shunt, The Monster Hunters, John Finnemore’s Double Acts) and critic and author CHRIS POWER (The Guardian, Mothers). Get your perm done, slip on your lurex and join a solemn bus tour tour round a crumbling gnome vi…

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KATHRYN FERRY & VICTORIA RICHARDS - I've Done A Bunk 46:21

4+ y ago46:21

46:21

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are seaside historian KATHRYN FERRY (The Nation’s Host: Butlin’s and the Story of the British Seaside, Bungalows, The 1950s Kitchen, Holiday Camps, Sheds on the Seashore: A Tour through Beach Hut History) and writer, journalist and editor, VICTORIA RICHARDS (Primers IV, BBC News, Times, …

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KERRY HUDSON & RACHAEL JOLLEY - Chasing Silver Darlings 44:45

4+ y ago44:45

44:45

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are two award-winners: novelist and memoirist KERRY HUDSON (Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, Thirst, Lowborn) and writer and editor of Index On Censorship, RACHAEL JOLLEY. Join a tour round cartoonists, surveillance, Miss Cromer, and herrings, as we encounte…

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PAUL B. DAVIES & DAVID SHARIATMADARI - It's Never Easy To Receive a Naked Postcard 1:06:19

4+ y ago1:06:19

1:06:19

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedy writer and novelist PAUL B. DAVIES (Dead Writers in Rehab) and journalist and author David Shariatmadari (Don’t Believe A Word). Join a menagerie of huge parrots, golden salamanders, boxing hares, surfing kangaroos and the flightless birds of New Zealand at this particular chi…

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JULIA RAESIDE & TONY LAW - A Roughneck, Spinning Chains 44:38

4+ y ago44:38

44:38

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian TONY LAW and journalist and podcaster JULIA RAESIDE. We encounter Ronnie and Donnie, join Tony on the longest gap year and hear about Julia’s dream weekend, spent truffling through dusty boxes. Along the way we try hog-selling to raise funds, learn the true value of a Led Ze…

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MARK WINGHAM & MARK ROUTH - Making Me Feel Like a Mince Pie 54:31

4+ y ago54:31

54:31

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are two postcard collectors, dealers, enthusiasts and collectors, MARK ROUTH and MARK WINGHAM, respectively longtime columnist for, and editor and proprietor of, Picture Postcard Monthly. We hold in our hands two of among the first postcards ever sent, we discuss cricket, stamp books, pr…

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SCOTT PACK & KAREN SHEPHERDSON - Please Feel Free To Go Round Again (Live at the Margate Bookie 2019) 1:01:18

4+ y ago1:01:18

1:01:18

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are publisher SCOTT PACK (How to Perfect Your Submission, Weightless Fireworks, 21st Century Dodos) and photographer, curator and writer KAREN SHEPHERDSON (Seaside Photographed, Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Photograph). We encounter photographers photographing photogra…

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CLARE MULLEY & SARAH HILARY - The Metatext of It 46:42

4+ y ago46:42

46:42

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are crime writer SARAH HILARY (Someone Else's Skin,No Other Darkness, Tastes Like Fear, Never Be Broken) and historical biographer CLARE MULLEY (The Woman Who Saved the Children, The Spy Who Loved, The Women Who Flew for Hitler). We discover postcards from a Japanese internment camp, fro…

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THANE PRINCE & TOBIE MATHEW - I’m Sure We Sat On The Cheese 53:19

4+ y ago53:19

53:19

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are food writer and broadcaster THANE PRINCE and journalist and expert in Russian revolutionary postcards TOBIE MATHEW (Greetings From The Barricades). We discover the strange and vibrant world of postcard manufacturing, collecting and sending in the latter days of Tsarist Russia, explor…

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SUKH OJLA & MAREK LARWOOD - Never Go In The Gift Shop First 43:47

4+ y ago43:47

43:47

we consider lonelyhearts, Tarantino's next film and the completely incomprehensible sound of Widecombe Fair. Wish you were here?Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and actor SUKH OJLA (Victoria and Abdul, Black Mirror, Hospital People, EastEnders) and fellow comedian and actor MAREK LARWOOD (We Are Klang, Extr…

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NATALIE HAYNES & KATHRYN BAIRD - The Great Pleasure of Taking You To Ottery 45:07

4+ y ago45:07

45:07

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are stand-up classicist and novelist NATALIE HAYNES (Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships) and shorthand expert KATHRYN BAIRD. We explore secret liaisons, Greek temples, waiting for war, Edwardian glamour and Pompeii. Along the way we consider the joy of Belgian biscuits…

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SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS & KEIRON PIM - The Weirdest Hangover Of My Life 50:03

4+ y ago50:03

50:03

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are journalist and novelist SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS (The Plus One, What Happens Now?) and writer KEIRON PIM (Jumpin' Jack Flash, The Bumper Book of Dinosaurs, Into The Light). We explore the seamier side of 1960s London, discover why Sophia never climbed Kilimanjaro, and take a trip to Tupel…

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RACHEL JOHNSON & NICK ASBURY - Creating a Fricasée 32:26

4+ y ago32:26

32:26

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are journalist and author RACHEL JOHNSON (Notting Hell, The Lady, The Mummy Diaries) and writer NICK ASBURY (The Disappointments Diary, Realtime Notes). We explore Notting Hill, take a trip up the A6, discover the secrets of the Inferior Poetry Society, animal cruelty, jokes on postcards…

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STUART MACONIE & LIZ BERRY - Pork Pie Situation Not Good (Live from the Birmingham Literature Festival) 53:28

4+ y ago53:28

53:28

Joining Tom Jackson, in a special programme recorded at the Birmingham Conservatoire as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival, to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writer and BBC 6Music broadcaster STUART MACONIE (Long Road From Jarrow, Pies and Prejudice, Adventures on The High Teas, The People's Songs) and award-winning poet LIZ BER…

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JAKE YAPP & ADAM SCOVELL - Oh Arthur, Put On The Postcard Will You? 41:39

4+ y ago41:39

41:39

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian JAKE YAPP (Jake Yapp's Media Circus, Pleased To Meet You, The Hurting) and writer and film-maker ADAM SCOVELL (Mothlight, Celluloid Wicker Man). We explore family resentments, forbidden landscapes and ghosts conjured by postcard. Along the way we consider Derrida and celebra…

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