Podcast From The Past

Podcast From The Past

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Podcast From The Past episodes

  • MARK WINGHAM & MARK ROUTH - Making Me Feel Like a Mince Pie
    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, propaganda, chance encounters in family history, the disastrous side of postcard collecting, and when is a modern not a modern. Wish you were here?

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    55 min
  • SCOTT PACK & KAREN SHEPHERDSON - Please Feel Free To Go Round Again (Live at the Margate Bookie 2019)
    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 photographers, visit model villages inside model villages, and look through the wrong end of a telescope at our parents as children - welcome to the hall of mirrors that is Podcast From The Past at the seaside, in a special episode recorded live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie 2019. Wish you were here?

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    1 hr 2 min
  • CLARE MULLEY & SARAH HILARY - The Metatext of It
    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, from Egypt during the First World War, and from a Blackpool tram. We hear about letters from Hitler’s bunker, letters in Austrian binbags and the story of Emperor Hirohito’s poster couple. Wish you were here?

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    47 min
  • THANE PRINCE & TOBIE MATHEW - I’m Sure We Sat On The Cheese
    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, explore recipe postcards and catch glimpses of life in Hunstanton, Cromer, Clacton and the Isles of Scilly, as well as gaining an appreciation of public art and private messages.Wish you were here?

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    54 min
  • SUKH OJLA & MAREK LARWOOD - Never Go In The Gift Shop First
    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, Extras, Hyperdrive, Impractical Jokers, Celebability). We explore the pros and cons of conjuring your love life, the scariest waxworks no longer in the UK, the stress of receiving parcels and the best fantasies to entertain on a long train journey. Along the way

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    44 min
  • NATALIE HAYNES & KATHRYN BAIRD - The Great Pleasure of Taking You To Ottery
    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, the dangers of reading too much and shorthand pens. Wish you were here?

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    46 min
  • SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS & KEIRON PIM - The Weirdest Hangover Of My Life
    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 Tupelo, Mississippi to lament the passing of the journalistic jolly. Along the way we consider the Devil and Herb Ritts, the lost art of slow slide descent, and witness 331/3 revolutions in parliament. Wish you were here?

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    51 min
  • RACHEL JOHNSON & NICK ASBURY - Creating a Fricasée
    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 that are understood only by the senders. Along the way we consider twisted fan mail to Take That, if you should think twice about visiting Hibbing, and ask whether too much television can give you indigestion. And a postcard from the Prime Minister. Wish you were here?

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    33 min
  • STUART MACONIE & LIZ BERRY - Pork Pie Situation Not Good (Live from the Birmingham Literature Festival)
    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 BERRY (Black Country, The Republic of Motherhood). We uncover long-distance love, the best LP ever made, working class autodidacts and the mysteries of landscape. Along the way we visit the Wren's Nest, a steelworks, a series of royal arches, an Aberystwyth clifftop, the back streets of Salford and a New York church. Wish you were here?

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    54 min
  • JAKE YAPP & ADAM SCOVELL - Oh Arthur, Put On The Postcard Will You?
    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 celebrate Sempé, crumpet and the perils of dogmeat. Wish you were here?

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    42 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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