Podcast From The Past

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July 20, 2023 NIGE TASSELL & GAIL RENARD - The Shrimp Was Fresh & The Picture Is Frozen
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, as we discover a living peace protest in Montreal with John Lennon, find ourselves playing frisbee in South East Minneapolis, meet skinny boys with floppy fringes turned driving instructors, visit the oldest chemist’s shop in England, and encounter Spotty Muldoon on the harmonium. A toupee flies in the wind, we commit publishing brand violations, spend a £2.99 postal order, quiz the Belgian Morrissey, and order chips, chips, and chips again. The Queen Is Dead, boys, but who sent the mystery postcard? Wish you were here?
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1 hr 3 min
July 06, 2023 MIRANDA KEELING & IAN BECK - They've Had Sir Harold Acton Stuffed
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 of clothes, and discover a story of loss inspired by an art postcard. Meringues, paths in the grass, disgruntled cats, dolls houses and sunsets. And a card from Uncle Fester - Wish you were here?
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47 min
January 26, 2022 KAREN AVERBY & ALEX MAYHEW - A Noisy Noise Annoys an Oyster
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 postcards of the First World War and seaside Grand Hotels, our guests share cards from their collections. Wish you were here?
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1 hr 11 min
January 13, 2022 NICHOLAS ROYLE & CLARE MACKINTOSH - A Centipede of Discerning Taste
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 discover the tantalising stories of postcards lost and found in secondhand books, and suffer les bunions de Paris with a surfeit of Eiffel Towers. Remember to use the postcode and mark it in Writer’s Blood beside the vanishing signature of a Belgian surrealist. Wish you were here?

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1 hr 9 min
December 30, 2021 EMMA FLINT & EDWARD PARNELL - Beamed to a Better Life
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 net curtains. It’s life, sliced up. Lace up your green trainers and try Bournemouth for the autumn tan. Wish you were here?
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1 hr 9 min
December 16, 2021 SARAH GAIL BRAND & PETER MITCHELL - Greetings From Warrington
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 of history, and steer clear of the Banana Night Shop. It’s Shreddies with a hint of pub carpet. Don’t miss the Bridal Spectacular. Wish you were here?

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1 hr 6 min
December 02, 2021 JEREMY BANX & RUTH THOMAS - Eating Peanuts and Watching Cilla Black
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 Blackpool as margarine; we follow a sheep up the stairs, avoid a disaster at the Hungarian Circus and hear about a childhood correspondence with Tove Jansson. Plus memory, regret and the perils of going back. You know the sort of life we lead. Wish you were here?

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1 hr 12 min
November 19, 2021 CATHY RENTZENBRINK & TOBY HANNAM - As Clear As Tap-Water
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, postcards as symbols of friendship, postcards in scrapbooks; we stroll from the Tower of London to Harrods pet shop, from Tahrir Square to the British Museum, from the Casual Sex Capital of the UK to an imagined suburban resort via London Zoo. Life in all its beauty and horror, on postcards. Wish you were here?
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1 hr 10 min
November 04, 2021 TIM HAYWARD & ANNEBELLA POLLEN - The Number of the Duck
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 killing and a remarkable coincidence at Monte Cassino; we stroll a Victorian Brighton walkway under threat, join the witches and weirdoes and hippies and others, as we chase life stories in photo albums. Plus a glimpse of collectors’ dreams and collectors’ nightmares, secret messages and the dirtiest postcard of all. Cut on dotted line for a cocktail coaster. Wish you were here?
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1 hr
October 21, 2021 TOM SHAKESPEARE & ANNE-MARIE MINHALL - It May Be The Rapture
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 Motorhead on the Isle of Man, Lonnie Donegan in Blackpool, Red Cabbage and the mystery of the Mexican Jumping Bean. God bless you always. and grant you a 4 and a half inch lolly. Wish you were here?
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56 min

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In each episode of PODCAST FROM THE PAST, Tom Jackson - who curates the hugely popular twitter feed and book Postcard From The Past - welcomes to the studio two guests, each armed with…

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