Podcast From The Past

Podcast From The Past

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Podcast From The Past episodes

  • ALEX VON TUNZELMANN & JACK MCNAMARA - Two Anteaters Were Never Found

    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 childhood of Lemmy Kilminster. Plus experiments in postcard storytelling, practical tips on which monarchs are most easily toppled and the unexpected history of Alton Towers. Have a divine time and avoid being cancelled on both sides. Wish you were here?



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    1 hr 3 min
  • SUSIE BOYT & ANDREW WILCOX - A Beetroot-Cutting Incident
    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, bedlam superimposed on bedlam in the stalls, and the chance to spot the Queen seven times and the Duke six. Wish you were here?

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    1 hr 4 min
  • JEREMY NOEL-TOD & CORINNE FOWLER - Turtle Soup for the Soul
    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, CORINNE FOWLER (Green Unpleasant Land). Together, we discover the card that wasn't sent, hear ghost stories in the dark, and experience a coincidence of twins; we are hunted by hares in the Bodleian Library, struggle to find cassettes in Ipswich, take a hammer to bed and ponder just how stately, stately homes really are. Thank you very much for the skull ring. Wish you were here?

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    1 hr 5 min
  • BOB FISCHER & RACHAEL CHADWICK - It's Always A Grey Lady
    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, explore a unique grief project in Paris, try living without the internet and learn about a family postcard mystery in the East End. Plus, Saturday Night Fever finally reviewed by a pack of girl guides. Wish you were here?

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    1 hr 9 min
  • JONATHAN MERES & LIZA ADAMCZEWSKI - Pork Pies At Dawn
    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 you might meet at Bush House and why a lengthy journey to the silver sands of Morar was worth making. Plus a bookshop behind a bed, mystery voices and a sharp-shooter in Melton Mowbray. Wish you were here?

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    1 hr 3 min
  • MARIA MCERLANE & MARK KINGWELL - I Wish I Could Be Here Right Now
    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 artistic enhancement to Queen Victoria, and capture the precise moment when lockdown started on a postcard. Plus windmills, broken windows and a barn full of ephemera. Wish you were here?

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    58 min
  • IAN SHAW & MARTHA LAWTON - A Posh Pen Found in a Phone Box
    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 Barbados, and consider the poppies of Montecassino. Wish you were here? (And check out Ian's podcast Not Even Music https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-even-music/id1534829538 & Martha's podcast Squanderlust https://www.squanderlustpod.com.)

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    57 min
  • JUSTIN CURRIE & HELEN DAY - No Sunrises, No Sunsets
    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 charm offensive waged by British pop groups on American fans. Wish you were here?

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    59 min
  • ESTHER WEBBER & CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE - There’s Always A Subtext
    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 Sedaris, and the loneliness of the long-distance academic. Wish you were here?

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    49 min
  • SIÂN PATTENDEN & BEN MOOR - Changes Wrought On Our Hometown
    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 about carpets, assess the joys of the suburbs, discover a million postcard artworks and confess to badgering Alan Bennett; the journey takes us from the shifting pebbles of Whitstable to a comfort break at the most talked about men's restroom in the world with Stewart Lee and Kevin Eldon. Wish you were here?

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    46 min

About Podcast From The Past

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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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