Podcast From The Past

By: Postcard From The Past and Wardour Studios
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  • Summary

  • 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 old postcards they couldn’t bear to throw away. Together, in funny, human and sometimes moving conversations, they explore the memories, mysteries and stories held by those postcards.

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Episodes
  • TOM DYCKHOFF - Lost in the Hall of Mirrors

    TOM DYCKHOFF - Lost in the Hall of Mirrors
    Dec 22 2023
    Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and broadcaster TOM DYCKHOFF. In a flex to the usual format, Tom opens up his precious childhood scrapbook and shares the postcards that as a seven-year-old he lovingly stuck in as souvenirs of family holidays and day trips. Maps, memories and mysteries. Wish you were here?

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    42 mins
  • HELEN O'HARA - A Glass Elephant

    HELEN O'HARA - A Glass Elephant
    Dec 8 2023


    Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past is violinist, musical director and author HELEN O’HARA (Dexy’s Midnight Runners, What She’s Like). Together we meet the knockoff Bee Gees, send a bikini to Birmingham, discover a battleship charm, and ponder Eddie Calvert played backwards. And we’ll hear tales of life on the road, shopping sprees in Brooks Brothers and letting down the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra for a life in pop music. Wish you were here?


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    46 mins
  • JULIA GILLEN - Chlorine And Salt Do Not Mix

    JULIA GILLEN - Chlorine And Salt Do Not Mix
    Nov 10 2023
    Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past is Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and principal investigator of the Edwardian Postcard Project, JULIA GILLEN (The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective). Together we meet Ruby and Arthur and learn about theur cycling trips, consider the digital shoebox, spend the day in a spaceship made of sand and wonder where the earwigs went. And we’ll hear crosshatched tales of unexpected family reunions and how the census can fill in the postcard gaps. Wish you were here?

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    39 mins

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