Time Travellers Podcast
1) Carols, carouses, and ceasefires: Christmas special
In this final episode of the series, Eleanor and the Time Travelling team head to the pub - via an almshouse and the Western Front - for some festive cheer, discovering the stories behind the music of...Show More
2) Music and food: a match made in heaven
What links Henry VIII and ice cream vans? Which opera diva got her own (just) desserts? Which Orcadian cake would you not want to eat? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough tucks into these and other vital que...Show More
3) Four glorious eccentrics
Green nail varnish? Tick. Cycling knickerbockers? Tick. Pet giraffe? Tick. Dancing and playing violin on stilts? Tick. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and the Time Travelling team as they delve into...Show More
4) Lost at sea
Don your Sou'wester and join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she sets sail to discover salty stories of music and musicians at sea. From a composer's capsized canoe to a much more tragic shipwreck, fr...Show More
5) Folk music and musical folk
Blow the dust off your squeezebox and strap on your gaiters as we go searching across the British Isles for the music of ordinary (and extraordinary) folk. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her ba...Show More
6) Myths, legends and supernannies
From the Arthurian legends of Cornwall to a saintly Viking in Orkney via everyone's favourite nanny, join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she adventures through time in search of gems of music history...Show More
7) Slave songs, pit songs, songs in dark times
From the plantations of the new world to the pits of County Durham, join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she discovers stories of the power of music in hard times. Each story is located in a specific ...Show More
8) A quartet of musical superwomen
They mightn't be sporting spandex suits, but these four musical women deserve superhero status. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough for four stories of musical superwomen from British and Irish history.
9) A whistle-stop tour of four intriguing instruments
From the humble penny whistle to the Mighty Wurlitzer, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the stories behind four intriguing musical instruments and their relationships with locations in Great Brit...Show More
10) Celeb-spotting stories: four tales of musical celebs from history
Sensational sopranos, comedy geniuses, and a very popular organist... Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough snoops through the spy glasses of history for scoops on musical celebs from the past. The first in ou...Show More