Museums n'That

Bringing the sauce this episode - but eating absolutely none of it - is David Hopes, Head of Service at Leeds Museums & Galleries.

Sara and Meg grill David about his credentials, and ask exactly how you get to be the head of a museum. He tells us some cracking stories about Brian Cox and Lulu (finally!) and, you know, says really interesting things about museums (n'that).

Big thanks to David for being a great sport. 

This episode also features a special guest cameo from Milo off of S2E1, who was extremely thirsty for some brownie points.

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Did someone say series 4?

*beat drop*

To kick off the new series, Meg and Sara talk to actual real life best friends Lee Arnold aka. King Monk and Marek Romaniszyn.  Lee is a Hip Hop aficionado - he runs King Monk studios and is the brains behind the Hip Hop Historian Society. Marek is the Assistant Community Curator at Leeds Museums & Galleries and really likes Ninja Turtles.

We find out (lots) about Leeds' hip hop roots, and ask how we go about collecting that kind of history. Marek and Lee chat about the exhibition they have planned in 2023, and, as always, their favourite takeaways.

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Hello everyone, it’s us.

We’ve been at it again, and now we’ve got a brand spanking new series of Museums n’That lined up ready for your ear holes.

Series 4 - can you literally believe they’ve let us have 4 series - is positively dripping in wonderful guests, putting up with our silly little questions. 

This series we learn about hip hop history (that’s right, we’re cool now), and find out how you get to be the director of a museum. And, crucially, we do talk condiments. God, we’re even doing videos this series. Send help.

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It's fashion, hun. This episode's guest is Vanessa Jones, one of our curators of Dress and Textiles at Leeds Museums and Galleries.

For our last episode of the series - can you believe! - we find out how to look fly as hell in the 1700s, why fashion sustainability is nothing new and what the deal is with historical sweat.

We also get deep - too deep? - into socks.

You can read Vanessa's blogs on Re-framing our dress and textiles collection on our website, where you can also explore the online Fast x Slow Fashion exhibition.

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Ant and Dec. Monica and Rachel. Wikipedia and Museums. The two best friends anyone could be!

Our guest this week is lovely Hope Miyoba, Wikimedian-in-residence for the Science Museum Group. Meg and Sara find out why museums and Wikipedia get on like a house on fire, talking through women in Leeds, human remains in museum collections and misrepresented histories.

We also discuss Bruce and Barack, wild nights of passion – oioi - and choccy butt-butts.

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Florence Nightingale!

...unfortunately wasn't available to be interviewed for this episode, but Stephanie Davies (Assistant Community Curator at Lotherton) absolutely was, and we really did luck out there. Steph tells us about the connection between the lady with the lamp and the greatest city in the world, and, naturally, we delve into pocket owls, mouldy hair and dog graveyards.

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In this uncharacteristically relevant episode, Meg and Sara talk to lovely Owen Gower from Dr. Jenner's House, off of the birthplace of vaccinations.

We find out about Blossom the cow and her 20 horns, ghost stories from inside the house and the naughty vicar's wife who stole a plant from the Pope. Oh, and all about vaccinations (lancets, people!), Edward Jenner and what it's like to work at the house of one of history's good guys.

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Magna Carta! Jay Z's 12th studio album and  the medieval cornerstone of modern democracy.

In this episode, we discuss both with Digital Engagement Officer Steven Franklin off of Egham Museum, Bradford Museums & Galleries and now the National Archives. Find out from someone other than Terry Jones why King John was so big and so bad, and why him needing a poo meant bad news for his Crown Jewels.

We also cover Runnymede - it's a floodplain, guys! - , Salisbury Cathedral and the garlic and herb dip from Dominos.

You know the one.

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Would you snog Othello? We've always asked the truly important questions, and this series will be no different.

We're back! We've got wonderful guests! We're still on zoom and we still hate it! For this first episode of series 3, Meg and Sara chat to Anjna Chouhan off of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who has 2 - 2! - of her own podcasts: Shakespeare Alive and Shakespeare's Pants.

Anjna patiently answers our silly little questions, like: are there any of Shakespeare's possessions still kicking about? What does it feel like sending emails every day from the place where the literal Bard was born? Most importantly, who's the fittest Shakespearean actor?

It's Helen Mirren.

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Lovely news! We've been chinwagging our way around the UK (is chinwagging a word?) and now we're back in the greatest city in the world ready to release our third series.

This time around, we ask museum smartypants the truly important questions about topics like Shakespeare, Magna Carta, vaccinations, Florence Nightingale, museums & Wikipedia and clothing from the 1700s.

We're talking snog marry avoid, we're talking poos and Crown Jewels. We're talking choccy butbuts.

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