Time Travellers
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales gathered from the corners of history by an intrepid band of time travelling correspondents, with a new theme every week.
Episodes
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 Christmastide from across the British Isles. Happy Christmas and a merry New Year!
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 questions in this episode exploring the (mostly) delicious relationship between music and food.
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 the weird worlds of four musical eccentrics.
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, from a haunted lighthouse to deserted islands, our Time Travellers explore the seafaring musical stories from the far south to the extreme north of the British Isles. Oh, and there are sheep, too. Soggy sheep.
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 band of merry music historians in their discovery of the stories behind British folk music past and present.
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 from across the British Isles and Ireland.
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 place in the British Isles, from Shetland to Truro.
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.
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 Britain.
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 our new series exploring tales of music-making from across the UK and Ireland.
Get your boots on and head down to the River Thames with mudlark Lara Maiklem, as she discovers the history of London hidden in mud.
Cream buns, holiday parks, alcoholic dragons: who doesn't love a festival? Get your marker pen and circle these annual highlights from Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough's historical calendar.
It's time to get ready to face the world: apply your make-up, trim those whiskers and don those fishy angel wings ... and those fig leaves.
People, and elephants, are not always what they seem: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has a gallery of figures from history who, not always knowingly, managed to dupe others.
Take a look at some of history's finest collectors' pieces: some desirable, some throwaway, and some downright unusual.
Need a little help making a wish, casting a curse or vanquishing an etheric vampire? Well, then, it's your lucky day - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her assembled band of Time Travellers are here to help.
Can you solve these five bite-sized brainteasers from history - or guess the theme that unites them?
Our time-travelling correspondents brave the elements to bring you tales of battles on ice, apocalyptic storms and a historical cloud craze.
Travel through time and enhance your vocabulary with some of our favourite old words. Agnoiology, bartitsu, blackguardiana, palimpsest, telectroscope... what do they all mean?
Here are some tips from the past for the optimum sporting performance: warm up properly, try not to get injured, and absolutely no cheating allowed.
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