This week I met with Helen Meller, Professor Emerita of Urban History Nottingham University to discuss the life of Hilda Cashmore - the pioneering founder of Bristol’s Barton Hill Settlement – which she established in 1911. Helen describes Hilda Cashmore as a ‘quaker, feminist, educator and social worker’. We discussed her life in the city and some…

With the end of 2023 in sight, Anna and Emily sit together on Anna's sofa in Brighton to reflect on the past year. It's been a big one for both of them, a trend that will continue in 2024, so there's also an update for listeners about TMOAL Season 5. Most excitingly, this episode features a very special guest indeed. Hope you enjoy listening - lots…

This week I met with Dr. Richard Stone, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Bristol, to discuss his recent research on Bristol’s early involvement in the trade in enslaved people. It has conventionally been thought that Bristol merchants began trading in enslaved Africans from 1698. However new evidence uncovered by Dr Ston…

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***The Sound Of Saffron by Charlie West***Women, non-binary and trans people occupy less than 5% of the music tech industry and UK …

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***A Bristol Boy's Disabled Life by Richard Prior***Local lad Richard Prior is blessed with a wonderful family and two beautiful da…

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***A Short History Of Purple Penguin by Peter Hall***You have all heard about the Bristol Sound, and the Bristol street art scene i…

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***Love Her by Mary Milton***“You were in a pub environment, but it was also like being at a friend’s house,” says one musician who…

Your Bristol Life is back for a second series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***L'Chaim, My Lovers by Tom Chachewitz***Local artist and writer Tom Chachewitz presents a brief history of Jewish life in Bristol…

The Severn is the longest river in the UK and from its source in the Cambrian mountains in mid Wales, it flows down through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire before eventually reaching the Bristol Channel. I met with Nicola Haasz, who has dedicated herself to exploring, collating and informing about the many facets of the Severn - incl…

This week I spoke with journalist and author Eugene Byrne to discuss the mass squatting movement that took place in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the context of a chronic housing shortage across the country, Bristol in the summer of 1946 saw ex-military bases at Purdown and White City in Ashton occupied by hundreds of people …

Find us on Instagram Follow The Grief Gang Buy Anna's Book More about The Death Festival Thank you to Nic Manaen for their amazing editorial work and the grace in which they shared their story.By Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***Bianchi's Food Group by Steven Mitchell***During Covid and post-Brexit, food, hospitality and catering became acknowledged as an essential, …

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***Old Market (REMIXED) by Tom Marshman***Old Market (REMIXED), written and performed by Tom Marshman and recorded and edited by Bernie Hodges,…

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***Henrietta Lacks by Daniel Edmund***The life-size bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks that was erected at the University of Bristol in 2021 by B…

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***Skate or Cry by Jazlyn Pinckney***In this audio documentary, five women taking space in Bristol’s skateboarding scene speak to Jazlyn Pinckn…

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol’s history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.***The Bristolian Refugee by Sam Sayer***What is it like to leave your country of origin and go to a strange, faraway land to find safety? How …

This week I met with Professor Nick Groom, to discuss the life, work and reputation of the Bristolian poet Thomas Chatterton. Born in Redcliffe in 1752, Chatterton was a precocious talent. In just seventeen years of life he produced a great body of poems, plays, prose works and a collection of medieval writings that he attributed to a fictional 15t…

With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen and Chris Thorburn. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

This week I spoke with Brycchan Carey, Professor of English at Northumbria university to discuss the life and work of 18th century Bristolian poet and milkwoman, Ann Yearsley,By Tom Brothwell

Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

You can buy Sara's memoir, Grand, at all good book retailers. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Get in touch with us at @TMOALpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

You can get Lisa's fantastic books at these links: • Cheat Play Live: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheat-Play-Live-journey-fearlessness/dp/1739934016/ • Because You Can: living without alcohol: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Because-You-Can-without-alcohol-ebook/dp/B09MSM5CD2/ This episode was edited by Chris Thorburn. Do get in touch with us! @tmoalpod or t…

This week I met with ballooning pioneer Don Cameron. We discussed the birth of hot air ballooning in Britain, the fifty-year history of his company - Cameron Balloons, the remarkable rise of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, and touched on some of the extraordinary feats of ballooning that Don has undertaken.…

Do get in touch with us! @tmoalpod or themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com. Yours in grief, a & e xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

This week I spoke with Andrew Foyle from Outstories Bristol, a volunteer community history group with an objective to gather, preserve and communicate the stories of LGBTQ people in Bristol and the surrounding area. We discussed some of the stories of LGBT people throughout Bristol’s history from the 17th century to the present day.…

You can buy Amy's novel, Definitely Fine, at all good bookshops. Here's a link to signed copies: https://www.city-books.co.uk/products/definitely-fine-by-amy-lavelle-signed To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah …

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

Yours in grief, a & e xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

You can buy Lianna's book, How To Grieve Like a Champ, and support independent bookshops and sellers here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Lianna-Champ/How-to-Grieve-Like-a-Champ/21945105 Edited by Anna Burtt. With love and thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

This week I spoke with amateur historian Steven Carter to discuss his research on how profits from the slave trade were fed back into British industry. Focussing on Edward Protheroe - a feted coal industrialist in the Forest of Dean in the early 19th century - Steven has traced how a substantial amount of the Protheroe family wealth was derived fir…

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

This week I met with Dr Michael Whitfield to discuss Bristol's dispensaries. For the two hundred years or so before the creation of the NHS in 1948, the dispensaries were one of the main providers of healthcare in Britain, especially for its poorest people. We discussed how the dispensaries operated, who paid for them and what they can tell us abou…

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Edited by Anna Burtt. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen.By Emily Benita and Anna Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Callum Flannigan

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Cathleen O'Grady

Rosie's book, The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak, is available to pre-order NOW! You can follow her @rosiewilby and listen to her podcast of the same name: https://www.acast.com/thebreakupmonologues To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Pr…

You can get your hands on Catherine's book here https://www.waterstones.com/book/blue-spaces/dr-catherine-kelly/9781789562842. To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xx…

This week I spoke with Colin Thomas and Tim Beasley of the Bristol Radical History Group to discuss the history of state surveillance in their pamphlet 'State Snooping - Spooks, Cops and Double Agents'. From the reign of Elizabeth I right up until the present day, the British state has used spies, informants and double agents to infiltrate what it …

You can follow Laura on Instagram @laura.lockington. The song that Emily mentions is Cargo Cult by Shelley Byron and the Poison Sleep. Listen to it here and then go and seek 'em out on Spotify and Bandcamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbvkQ8bRyI. To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or…

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Seb Burtt

To get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at themotherofalllosses [at] gmail [dot] com or sling us a Tweet @TMOALPod. Produced by Chris Thorburn. With thanks to Hannah Trevarthen. Yours in grief, A & E xxBy Bex Killalea, Beth Killalea