Podcast From The Past

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and autograph dealer ADAM ANDRUSIER (The Autograph Hunter). Together we consider fame, authenticity and collecting, encountering on the way the few celebrity inhabitants of Pinner, a reluctant Ray Charles, a broken wrist and a cancelled holiday. We get our pictures drawn by computer, meet the poet laureate and man the telex while doing our best not to leak state secrets on a postcard. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past is writer and traveller MAX LEONARD (Vintage Alpine Postcards, Higher Calling, Bunker Research and Lanterne Rouge). Together we head for the mountains, encountering on the way stolen cakes, power cuts and proof of penguins and pump rooms. We meet the spirit of the glacier, consider imagined mountain scenery, a revolving solarium and the underwhelming lights of Broadstairs. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is writer LUCY LETHBRIDGE (Servants, Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves). Together we put on our patented sunset spectacles and consider impulsive trips abroad prompted by postcards, how to plan for the wrestling and the joys of a good shower of British seaside rain. Plus collapsible travelling bathtubs and - is 45p a good price for a troll called Heather? Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is art critic, writer and broadcaster CRISTÍN LEACH (Negative Space, From Ten till Dusk, A Portrait of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in 12 Stories). Together we experience the magic of living below the waterline, put unlikely objects on a colour photocopier, visit the flying hotel of Woolacombe, suffer broken watch-springs in Alicante, and consider some not-quite postcards of the Dublin Art Club. Plus we decorate our walls salon-style with postcards and watch the body-popping boys outside C & A. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from her past - in our new, streamlined format - is Curator: Design and Architecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and photo-history researcher, ELLA RAVILIOUS (Eric Ravilious: Landscapes and Nature, What Photographs Do: The making and remaking of museum cultures). Together, we pitch Snoopy against The Red Baron, the Post Office Tower against Liverpool Cathedral and catch up on the onion news. Plus we time-travel at two speeds as we discuss the work of James Ravilious and the Beaford Archive. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from his past - in our new, streamlined format - is writer JONATHAN GIBBS (Randall, The Large Door, Spring Journal, A Personal Anthology). We travel on the Post Bus to Mutiny on the Buses, fall flat on our backs in Paris, avoid the Plague Dogs and take a spin with spiral messages. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining TOM JACKSON to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writers JAMES HOGG (Little Ern: The Authorised Biography of Ernie Wise, Hello Darlings! The Authorised Biography of Kenny Everett) and RICHARD SMYTH (The Woodcock, The Jay, The Beech And The Limpetshell). Together, we dine at Romano’s with Phil May, cascade down a lost watersplash, and grind out a caffeinated citybreak. We avoid the food poisoning, dodge the rockpools, confuse Oban and Inverary and travel to 1931 for a good game of tennis with Albert. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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?   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian ALEX KEALY and musician KATE GARNER. In an episode littered with aliases, we meet Tompy, Wifey, Ex-Wifey, Bimbo Clive-Barclay and Pottle. We hear memories of Chas Hodges, exploding televisions, Mapp and Lucia and chain letters. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian HOLLY BURN and comedy writer DALE SHAW. We blow the housekeeping on a daytrip to London with the Backstree Boys and Blood Sausage, meet a dead pig in Westphalia, take tea in Hexham and fist the mousse - as they say in darts. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and writer CHRIS NEILL (Woof) and novelist STEPHANIE BUTLAND (Lost For Words, The Woman in the Photograph). We cycle from Lands End to a broken tentpole, ponder the mystery floodlights of Ealing, and Unseen Weybridge, as well as Snow White, Auntie Hastings and a poet laureate. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the end of Series 3, so we present a multi-view, a series of views of the stories the guests have told host Tom Jackson - all inspired by their postcards, in this third series of Podcast From The Past. We'll hear Scott Pack, Justin Edwards, A.L. Kennedy, Karen Shepherdson, Cariad Lloyd, Keggie Carew, Thane Prince, Tobie Mathew, Sukh Ojla, Julia Raeside, Tony Law & Marek Larwood. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are the hosts of the excellent Is It Rolling, Bob? podcast, actors KERRY SHALE and LUCAS HARE. We get stuck inside of Florence, take the big wheel in Yokohama, travel from bedsitland to Athena, meet Mr Natural and consider the challenges of buying Bob Dylan records in York in 1966. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and writer SIMON KANE (Time Spanner, North by Northamptonshire, Shunt, The Monster Hunters, John Finnemore’s Double Acts) and critic and author CHRIS POWER (The Guardian, Mothers). Get your perm done, slip on your lurex and join a solemn bus tour tour round a crumbling gnome village, witness the mysterious Wayne, Wendy and a performing seal, marvel at the Lord Mayor’s Show of Misery (and Murder?), sample flowers, oysters, Blu-Tack and champagne. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are seaside historian KATHRYN FERRY (The Nation’s Host: Butlin’s and the Story of the British Seaside, Bungalows, The 1950s Kitchen, Holiday Camps, Sheds on the Seashore: A Tour through Beach Hut History) and writer, journalist and editor, VICTORIA RICHARDS (Primers IV, BBC News, Times, Independent). Join a charabanc tour round fake donkeys, Butlins, the thrills of mixed bathing, postcard witnesses to life-changing moments, and a snow fox from Japan. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are two award-winners: novelist and memoirist KERRY HUDSON (Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, Thirst, Lowborn) and writer and editor of Index On Censorship, RACHAEL JOLLEY. Join a tour round cartoonists, surveillance, Miss Cromer, and herrings, as we encounter random weddings, Russian translators, a curry pastie and a cream cake. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedy writer and novelist PAUL B. DAVIES (Dead Writers in Rehab) and journalist and author David Shariatmadari (Don’t Believe A Word). Join a menagerie of huge parrots, golden salamanders, boxing hares, surfing kangaroos and the flightless birds of New Zealand at this particular chimps’ tea party, and you might find yourself hot as rocket re-entry or cut up like a Brion Gysin notebook, as we encounter a paupiette of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and the language of umbrellas, and attempt to avoid a nasty teddy bear hostage situation. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian TONY LAW and journalist and podcaster JULIA RAESIDE. We encounter Ronnie and Donnie, join Tony on the longest gap year and hear about Julia’s dream weekend, spent truffling through dusty boxes. Along the way we try hog-selling to raise funds, learn the true value of a Led Zeppelin cassette and enter into serious research into Indo-European horse tribes. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are award-winning novelist A.L.KENNEDY (Day, All the Rage, What Becomes, The Blue Book) and award-winning non-fiction writer KEGGIE CAREW (Dadland, Quicksand Tales). We explore family secrets revealed by postcards, the complicated pleasures of smutty jokes, and where best in your study to display your postcard collection. Along the way we will meet a Barcelonan plastic surgeon, the lightest patriot in Trafalgar Square and spend a holiday in a mouldy tent. Two great story-tellers take their prompts from postcards. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and comedian and award-winning host of Griefcast, CARIAD LLOYD (Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You?, Austentatious, Peep Show, 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown, Murder in Successville) and actor and comedian JUSTIN EDWARDS (The Thick of It, In and Out of The Kitchen, Black Mirror, The Death of Stalin). In this series 3 launch episode we explore the plain weirdness of saucy seaside postcards, revisit some call-centre memories, uncover the extent of Justin’s beermat problem, and learn about Cariad’s undying devotion to David Bowie. Along the way we discover how Worzel Gummidge altered a Hampshire village for ever, what you call a hole in a mountain, and why you should always plan your exit from a pub on a hill. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the end of Series 2, so we present a multiview, a series of views of the stories the guests have told host Tom Jackson - all inspired by their postcards, in this second series of Podcast From The Past. We'll hear Zeb Soanes, Kit de Waal, Grainne Maguire, Gideon Coe, Julian Dutton, Ruth Padel, Corrie Corfield, Simon Calder, Luke Turner and Lorraine Bowen. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are postcard collector and author of Paper Jewels: Postcards From The Raj, OMAR KHAN and anthropologist at SOAS, STEPHEN HUGHES. In this episode we explore the early days of Indian postcards, the connection between postcards and early cinema, postcards as personal legacy and why the postman was sometimes obliged to read the postcards he delivers. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Evening Standard theatre critic FIONA MOUNTFORD and novelist MICHAEL DONKOR (Hold). In this episode we explore the emotional burden of mementoes, a one-sided postcard courtship, and postcards for the extremely lazy. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are antiques expert, broadcaster GEOFFREY MUNN (Antiques Roadshow) and writer JOHN GRINDROD. In this episode we discuss the fossils of Malta and relics of our pasts, the lost art of plane-spotting and tragedy foretold in carefree postcards from the start of the twentieth century. Plus sequins and petticoats. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are novelist SARRA MANNING (Unsticky, Adorkable, London Belongs To Us, The House of Secrets, The Rise And Fall of Becky Sharpe) and editor of Mojo JOHN MULVEY. In this episode we discuss masculinity and postcard-writing, the forgotten wartime delights of Rainbow Corner, share blurry memories of Britpop, and rediscover the days when music journalism was an exercise in post-structuralist theory. Plus alien honeysuckle. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are author, maker and blogger EMMA MITCHELL (Making Winter, The Wild Remedy) and writer MARINA BENJAMIN (Insomnia, Last Days in Babylon, The Middlepause, Rocket Dreams, Living at the End of the World). In this episode we explore the therapeutic and educational benefits of collecting anything and postcards in particular, and travel to Baghdad to see glimpses of a lost city. Along the way we ponder the perfectly placed pebble and waterskiing down the Thames. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are broadcaster and Independent travel editor SIMON CALDER and writer and editor LUKE TURNER (Out of The Woods). In this episode - recorded live in front of an audience at the The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace - we learn the tale of a cold war trip to the Channel Islands, discover a trove of cards that might unlock family secrets, uncover a sporran and ponder a house full of pop stars in Leamington Spa. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are journalist and broadcaster TOM SUTCLIFFE (Saturday Review, A Good Read, Round Britain Quiz) and actor LORELEI KING (Emmerdale, Notting Hill, Jonathan Creek, Storyteller: How To Be An AudioBook Narrator). In this episode we dig deep into art cards with messages, reflect on America's industrial heritage and explore De Chirico's dreamscape. Along the way we listen to the Hawaiian sounds of Brighton and ponder fame in Anne Hathaway's kitchen. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are BBC Radio 4 newsreader and announcer and author ZEB SOANES (Gaspard The Fox) and musician, Britain's Got Talent star and crumble enthusiast, Lorraine Bowen (Billy Bragg, The Dinnerladies, The Damned). In this episode we ride a funicular, look under a flamenco dancer's skirts, travel to Hearst Castle and do our best to avoid bouncing bombs. Along the way we learn the trouble with Scottish scenery and ponder a missing jar of chutney. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are paper-puppetry performing comedian BEC HILL(Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit, The Dog Ate My Homework, Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up) and broadcaster FIONA TALKINGTON (BBC Radio 3 Late Junction). In this episode we experiment with the joys of sliding down banisters, pitch a Shetland pony-based disaster movie, and discover the best way to have your music played on Radio 3. It's always sunny in the Thames Valley, so - all aboard the community bus. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are BBC 6 Music presenter GIDEON COE and poet RUTH PADEL (Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop, The Soho Leopard, Darwin - A Life in Poems, I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll). In this episode we suffer health cures in Edinburgh, explore ancient caves, are threatened by both a school of killer whales and a lone tiger, and do everything we can to avoid catching rabies. Along the way we remember the endless summers of childhood, celebrate the joy of a simple postcard message and plan a cavort with David Niven. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and comedy write GRAINNE MAGUIRE (Question Time, What Has The News Ever Done For Me?) and novelist KIT DE WAAL (My Name Is Leon, The Trick To Time). In this episode the postcards take us on a trip to New York to drink martinis with Angela Lansbury, naked rock-climbing in Derbyshire, and we learn what it is to live with the prospect of an imminent apocalypse. Plus the doe-eyed alsatians of Brighton and memories of moon-landings in Bournemouth and royal weddings in Northampton. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are journalist, agony aunt, author and podcaster DAISY BUCHANAN (How To Be A Grown-Up, You're Booked, The Sisterhood, Guardian, Telegraph) and journalist and author OWEN HATHERLEY (The Ministry of Nostalgia, Militant Modernism, Landscapes of Communism, The Chaplin Machine). In this episode we bathe in colourful neon light in 1970s Poland, ride the gentler funfair rides at Margate Dreamland, get lost in Venice, learn the secrets of the Jilly Cooper Book Club, and sing a hymn to dusty postcard shops. Pack your bags and book your bed and breakfast - we're off for a relaxing fortnight of seaside jury duty. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Emmy-winning writer DAVID QUANTICK (Go West, The Mule, The Thick Of It, Veep, The Blagger's Guide) and blogger and author JO MIDDLETON (Slummy Single Mummy, Playgroups and Prosecco). In this episode we encounter a vicar inappropriately sponging his aspidistra, recall the postage stamps that only existed in sweetshop packets, and relive the horrors and indignities of school foreign exchanges. Along the way we discuss the Soviet space programme, the days when radio requests were sent by postcard and John Peel's missing Festive Fifty. Hide the rabbit's head behind the cruet, for the Cosmos belongs to us all. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are philosopher JULIAN BAGGINI (How The World Thinks, A Short History of Truth, The Edge of Reason, The Virtues of the Table) and journalist EMILY DUGAN, senior reporter for BuzzFeed News (Finding Home: Real Stories of Migrant Britain). In this New Year episode, we discover the perils of anthropomorphism, the joy of hitch-hiking, and venture towards a philosophy of postcards. Along the way we learn some grubby secrets of south coast coffee making and brave a breakfast-time singalong. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and comedian ALEX LOWE (Clare in the Community, Phoenix Nights, Barry From Watford) and journalist and comedy writer MOLLIE GOODFELLOW (Guardian, GQ, New Statesman, Have I Got News For You?, Frankie Boyle's New World Order). In this almost-festive episode, we celebrate mentors and kindness - we discover Alex Lowe's love of vintage postcards, his uncanny ability to replicate the exact height of theatrical knights, and we learn about an awards ceremony put together in a week. Along the way we benefit from expert handwriting advice from Barry Saint-Michael, learn the perils of taking Brian Blessed a cup of tea, and finally establish how many kisses it's appropriate to put on the end of an email. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are actor and writer JULIAN DUTTON (Truly, Madly, Bletchley, The Big Impression, Pompidou, Do You Think That's Wise?) and broadcaster CORRIE CORFIELD (Radio 4, World Service). In this extra-long episode, Julian reveals his family's enduring relationship with postcards that goes back almost 150 years, and we discover how Corrie's postcards are a celebration of chance encounters and family memories. Along the way we discover the correct way to pronounce Le Mesurier, the true meaning of High Rise, and why High Wycombe may be the next big holiday destination. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and author ROBIN INCE (Infinite Monkey Cage, I’m a Joke and So Are You) and traveller and travel writer LOIS PRYCE (Lois on the Loose, Red Tape & White Knuckles, Revolutionary Ride). In this episode, both Robin and Lois break the poorly enforced rules of the podcast and bring in literally hundreds of postcards - packed full of memories and ideas. Along the way we discover the Curse of Bob The Builder, Robin’s burgeoning bloodlust and the secret horrors lurking inside a London telephone box. Plus live banjo music. Pack your saddlebags, locate the automated curtain button and prepare to feed a monstrous need. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the end of Series 1, so we present a multiview, a series of views of the stories the guests have told, host Tom Jackson - all inspired by their postcards, in this first series of Podcast From The Past. We'll hear Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp, The Mash Report's Rachel Parris, comedian and novelist Mark Watson, journalist, playwright and novelist Bonnie Greer, and actors Mathew Horne and Ruth Bratt. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are historian DIANE ATKINSON (Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls, Love & Dirt, Elsie and Mairi Go to War, Rise Up, Women!) and arts & entertainment journalist CLAIR WOODWARD (The Guardian, Daily Express, TV Quick, TV Choice, Radio Times, The Scotsman, Sunday Express). In this episode we discover the darker side of picture postcards and how they were used as anti-suffragette propaganda, we re-live the 1980's student experience, and write a letter of complaint to The Smiths. There's no need to send any more cake. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are broadcaster PETROC TRELAWNY (BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, Leeds International Piano Competition Live) and music writer RICHARD KING (How Soon Is Now?, Original Rockers). In this musically-tinged episode we explore the demise of the non-conformist chapel in the Cornish landscape, pore over a personal postcard sent by John Peel, and hear about a strange family coincidence in a church in Alexandria. Don't drink the salt water. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are writer and podcaster ANDY MILLER (Tilting At Windmills, The Year of Reading Dangerously) and music writer and drummer ZOE HOWE (Barbed Wire Kisses, Rock'n'Roll Gentleman, Shine On Marquee Moon). In this unusually discursive episode we explore the rise of the seaside mini golf course, discuss the postcard image as a replacement for a physical object, and Andy and Zoe discover a shared love of The Who. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comic actress RUTH BRATT (Showstopper, People Just Do Nothing) and conductor and author LEV PARIKIAN (Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?). In this extra-long episode we explore postcards as conduits of real, valuable emotional support, we learn about the perils of childhood self-delusion, and we meet teenage Americans turning into beasts. Lev and Ruth are open, honest and full of touching and funny postcard stories. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are musician NICK HEYWARD (Haircut 100) and writer and cold-water swimming enthusiast JENNY LANDRETH (Swell). In this episode, the postcards take us to a Canadian mountain, an English seaside town left high and dry, and Selma, Alabama. Nick and Jenny reveal the personal stories behind postcards that they have kept hold of. Public erection is prohibited. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedians RACHEL PARRIS (Mash Report) and TIERNAN DOUIEB (Partly Political Broadcast). In this all-comedian episode the postcards take us to Mouse Town, open up the world of paperclip engineering, and reveal a catalogue of indignities suffered by Tiernan in the name of charity. Plus donkeys. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedy writers JASON HAZELEY and JOEL MORRIS (Screenwipe, Bollocks To Alton Towers, Cunk on Britain, Ångström and the adult Ladybird books). In this bonus, more-postcards, more-laughs, extra-long episode we explore postcard messages as Trip Advisor reviews of your own life, rediscover postcards sent by musicians to their fans and learn about the world's largest room. Plus a strange coincidence. Again. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian and author MARK WATSON (The Knot, Hotel Alpha, The Place That Didn't Exist) and journalist and broadcaster TIMANDRA HARKNESS (Big Data). In this episode we ponder postcard messages as an unreliable dataset, miniature sea-battles, and the transience of all things except, apparently, little cardboard rectangles. And Timandra gets a chance to tick 'appearing on a postcard-related podcast’ off her new year list for 2018. Please charge your glasses and mobile phones. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian, writer and podcasting doyenne VIV GROSKOP (The Anna Karenina Fix) and music journalist and author of the forthcoming Selling The Pig: Terra Firma & The Final Years Of EMI, EAMONN FORDE (Guardian, Big Issue). The podcast takes a philosophical turn as we explore identity, friendship, marriage and the death of ambition while considering whether ghost trains can ever be gorgeous and whether an of us are indispensable. Please mind your step and watch out for the technicolor vomit. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are broadcaster SAMIRA AHMED and journalist and author PETER WATTS. We discover a postcard bemoaning the life of a sports journalist at the World Cup, see the postcard that set Samira on the path to arts journalism, and consider how developments in domestic refrigeration may be responsible for the decline of the picture postcard. Come as you are, but have your splash ready. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Spandau Ballet guitarist and songwriter GARY KEMP and journalist BIBI LYNCH. We discover the consolations of a thoughtful postcard in the harsh digital age, and dip into Gary's amazing collection of postcards that he sent home to a friend from his travels with Spandau Ballet. What do you say the day after performing at Live Aid? What was it like, visiting Berlin when Europe was still divided? And how do you write a postcard when being chased by a bee? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Forward Prize-winning poet SASHA DUGDALE and actor SAMUEL WEST (Howards End, Mr Selfridge). We discover a postcard that inspired a poem, a city in four countries, explore the joys of postcrossing and lift the lid on an a mysterious nightclub singer from Bucharest. Be energised, not enervated. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are neuroscientist and stand-up comedian PROFESSOR SOPHIE SCOTT and comic actor MATHEW HORNE (Gavin and Stacey, Horne and Corden, Teachers, Bad Education). We discover the joys of academic libraries, the emotional exhaustion of performing comedy, musical tattoos and we learn the story of Kajagoogoo’s last show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are cultural journalist ANDREW MALE (MOJO, Sight & Sound) and playwright, journalist and broadcaster BONNIE GREER. We discover the postcard from the National Gallery that inspired Bonnie’s first novel, explore the frozen world of lenticular 3D postcards in Shakespeare’s psychedelic garden and encounter the Smoking Moon-Faced Dandy. Wish you were here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.