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? Windsor Castle from the…
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…
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 principle 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 their cycling trips,…
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…
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…
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…
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 dubious magic of living below the waterline, put unlikely objects on a colour…
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…
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, avoid the Plague Dogs and take a spin with spiral messages. Wish you were here? RIVER OUSE FROM LENDAL…
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…