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?
HOLLY BURN & DALE SHAW – My Urge Overtook Me
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 Backstreet Boys and Blood Sausage, meet a dead pig in Westphalia, take tea in Hexham and fist the mousse – as…
STEPHANIE BUTLAND & CHRIS NEILL – Quite Excited By Kitchen Roll
Joining Tom Jackson – 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…
SERIES 3 – THE MULTIVIEW
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,…
KERRY SHALE & LUCAS HARE – It Reminds Me Of Me
Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are the hosts of the excellent Is It Rolling, Bob? podcast ( https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/talkingdylan ), 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…
SIMON KANE & CHRIS POWER – The Home of Barry Manilow
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…
KATHRYN FERRY & VICTORIA RICHARDS – I’ve Done A Bunk
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…
KERRY HUDSON & RACHAEL JOLLEY – Chasing Silver Darlings
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…
PAUL B. DAVIES & DAVID SHARIATMADARI – It’s Never Easy To Receive a Naked Postcard
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…
JULIA RAESIDE & TONY LAW – She Was A Roughneck, Spinning Chains
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…