Time Travellers
Time Travellers
BBC Radio 3
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.
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 Christmastide from across the British Isles. Happy Christmas and a merry New Year!
Dec 27, 2019
24 min
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 questions in this episode exploring the (mostly) delicious relationship between music and food.
Dec 18, 2019
20 min
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 the weird worlds of four musical eccentrics.
Dec 11, 2019
16 min
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, 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.
Dec 4, 2019
17 min
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 band of merry music historians in their discovery of the stories behind British folk music past and present.
Nov 27, 2019
17 min
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 from across the British Isles and Ireland.
Nov 20, 2019
18 min
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 place in the British Isles, from Shetland to Truro.
Nov 13, 2019
16 min
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.
Nov 6, 2019
18 min
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 Britain.
Oct 30, 2019
16 min
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 our new series exploring tales of music-making from across the UK and Ireland.
Oct 23, 2019
17 min
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