Travels Through Time

Prof. Carol Dyhouse: Love, Love, Love (1966)

In this Valentine’s Day special of Travels Through Time we find out how women’s love lives were being transformed in the year 1966. 
Our guest is Professor Carol Dyhouse, a social and cultural historian and emeritus professor at the University of Sussex. Dyhouse takes us on a fascinating, uplifting tour of the sixties that ends with us sniffing fine perfume in a Scottish department store.
Dyhouse is the author of several books about women’s history from education and feminism to glamour and consumerism. Her most recent work Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen is soon to be published by Oxford University Press.
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Show notes
Scene One: A visit to Gretna Green
Scene Two: Sitting in on deliberations of the Latey Committee on Age of Majority
Scene Three: Witnessing the opening of Brook Advisory Centre in Birmingham
Memento: Two bottles of scent from the perfume department at Jenners in Edinburgh. 
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Prof. John Heilbron: Galileo's Ghost (1643)

This week we're heading to 1643 - a year of conflict and strife in the English Civil War.
Our guest is the distinguished historian of science, Professor John Heilbron. Heilbron opted to travel back to Royalist Oxford, a university city teeming with action.
Amid it all he finds a stranglely unstudied history lurking in the colleges. It's a story that is captured in a painting of a young scholar and his tutor, who sits beside a copy of Galileo's Dialogues. 
See the painting discussed in this episode here.
The characters and stories in this episode feature in JL Heilbron's new book, The Ghost of Galileo, which has been recently published by Oxford University Press.
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Show notes
Scene One: Sir John Bankes arrives in Oxford, probably in February of 1643
Scene Two: Summer 1643. Young John Bankes arrives in Oxford to begin his studies at Oriol College
Scene Three: The painter Francis Cleyn comes to Oxford on business.
Memento: Three copies of the original edition of Galileo’s Dialogue (current market value $1m each)
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Interview: Violet Moller
Guest: Professor John Heilbron
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Kate Mosse: The City of Tears (1572)

The bestselling novelist Kate Mosse kicks off our new season of recordings with this dramatic trip back to sixteenth-century Paris.
The summer of 1572 was supposed to be a joyous one for Parisians. After years of strife a wedding was planned and the best was expected. The events of that August, though, would be remembered for quite different reasons.
Find out more with this conversation between Kate and Artemis. 
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Kate Mosse's new novel, The City of Tears, which is recently published in hardback by Macmillan
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Show notes
Scene One: Hôtel de Bourbon, Paris, June 1572, where the Queen of Navarre is lodging.
Scene Two: Catherdal de Notre Dame, Paris, 18th August, for the wedding of Maguerite de Valois to Henry de Navarre.
Scene Three: Rue de Béthisy in the early hours of 24th August, St Bartholomew’s Day, as the massacre begins.
Momento: A steel Huguenot cross. 
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Season Four Trailer

We're very excited to let you know that the fourth season of Travels Through Time begins on Tuesday 26 January.
Our first episode will be with the bestselling novelist Kate Mosse. Following Kate will be a brilliant range of historians, novelists, poets and others - all of them full of expertise and enthusiasm for the past.
For more, check out tttpodcast.com. // See you soon!

Pen Vogler: A Christmas Feast

In this indulgent Christmas Special with the author Pen Vogler, we forego the tradition of our usual format and opt to roam freely across the centuries.
Instead of looking at one year in isolation, we examine one single day. That, of course, is the brightest, bonniest, most edacious date in all the Christian calendar: 25 December.
Pen Vogler is the author of the expertly researched, Scoff, A History of Food and Class in Britain, A multiple book of the year, Scoff has been described by Jay Rayner as 'A brilliant romp of a book that gets to the very heart of who we think we are, one delicious dish at a time.'
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Show notes
Scene One: Christmas, 1524
Scene Two: Christmas, 1660s
Scene Three: Christmas, 1843
Memento: Samuel Pepys’s Venison Pasty
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Presenter: Peter Moore
Interview: Violet Moller
Guest: Pen Vogler
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Charles Spencer: The White Ship (1120)

Charles Spencer takes us back exactly nine centuries to one of the most shocking maritime disasters in English history: the sinking of the White Ship.
Down with the White Ship on 25 November went King Henry I's legitimate son, William Ætheling, and many leading nobles. The fallout was both immediate and long-lasting. For decades afterwards England would be lost to civil war.
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Charles Spencer's latest book, The White Ship, Conquest, Anarchy and The Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream.
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Show notes
Scene One: 1120, Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. Henry I grants Geoffrey de Clinton land to build a castle
Scene Two: 25 November 1120. The White Ship sinks at Barfleur
Scene Three: Late November. The New Forest. King Henry learns of the disaster
Memento: The figurehead of the doomed White Ship
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Ian Mortimer: Regency Britain (1825)

We meet the perfect guest for our format: the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Time Travellers Guide series, Ian Mortimer.
Ian guides us back to 1825 for a tour of the concert halls, stately homes and new industrial beginnings of one of the best-loved eras in British history: the Regency Period.
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Ian Mortimer’s latest book in his time traveller series, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain.
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Show Notes
Scene One: 21 December 1825, collapse of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire.
Scene Two:  7 September 1825 (Stockton to Darlington Railway)
Scene Three: 21 March 1825, The Argyll Rooms, Regent Street, London (first British performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony)
Memento: Byron's skull cap
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Joseph Hone: Paper Chase (1711)

Today the historian and literary scholar Dr Joseph Hone takes us back to the dangerous, scheming politics of the reign of Queen Anne.
We talk about the long legacy of the fraught seventeenth-century. We follow the twists and turns of a mystery about a scandalous pamphlet, and we meet the brilliant man who many consider Britain’s first prime minister: Robert Harley.
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Joseph Hone’s new book, The Paper Chase: The Printer, The Spymaster & the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers, published by Chatto & Windus.
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Show notes
Scene One: 7 February 1711, the Bell Tavern, Westminster. A club of disgruntled Tory backbenchers are plotting against Robert Harley.
Scene Two: 8 March 1711, the Cockpit in Whitehall. A suspected French spy is being interrogated by members of the cabinet when he attempts to assassinate Harley.
Scene Three: 26 April 1711, the floor of the House of Commons. Harley makes a grand reappearance in Parliament.
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Guest: Dr Joseph Hone
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Judith Herrin: The Road to Ravenna (500)

In this episode the distinguished historian Professor Judith Herrin takes us back to the year 500 AD. We visit Constantinople in the east, the old crumbliing capital at Rome and then we head to the enchanting city of Ravenna.
As Rome's importance waned, Ravenna's was set on a steep upward trajectory. By the year 500 the Ostrogoth King Theoderic had made it his capital and had employed hundreds of specialist craftsmen to build churches that glorified his Arian Christian faith.
The characters and scenes that feature in this episode are described in much more detail in Judith Herrin's acclaimed new book: Ravenna, Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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Show notes
Scene One: Constantinople. The Emperor Anastasius rules over a large and expanding capital city. 
Scene Two: Rome. Theoderic arrives in Rome, his first and only visit to the city. 
Scene Three: Ravenna: Theoderic returns to his capital city, now the most important centre of government in Italy from which he rules a much larger kingdom. 
Memento: A leaf of the Gothic Bible, written in silver and gold ink on special purple dyed parchment
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Damien Lewis: Behind Enemy Lines (1944)

On the eve of Remembrance Day the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Damien Lewis takes us back to 1944 and to a series of audacious operations deep behind enemy lines in the aftermath of D-Day.
The characters and scenes that feature in this episode of Travels Through Time arise out of Damien Lewis's new book, SAS: Band of Brothers, which in newly published in hardback.
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Show notes
Scene One: June 1944, France, a drop-zone twenty miles to the south of Paris.
Scene Two: Paris, July 1944, France, La Ferte Alais drop zone, just east of Etampes Airbase, south of Paris.
Scene Three: August 1944: Noailles, a dark patch of remote woodland to the north of Paris.
Memento: Lt K. Weihe’s SAS beret
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