Episode 38: Needlework

1, 6, 2017 - “If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet!” – Irish Proverb Welcome to the .... Read More

Episode 37: Hands

26, 5, 2017 - ‘… we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man’ (Julio .... Read More

Episode 36: The Study

16, 5, 2017 - “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” (Virginia Woolf, A .... Read More

Episode 35: The Follower

9, 5, 2017 - ‘I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?’ (Benjamin Disraeli). While Batman has Robin .... Read More

Episode 34: The Itch

2, 5, 2017 - “Disputandi Pruritus Ecclesiarum Scabies” (‘The itch of disputing will prove the scab of the .... Read More

Episode 33: The Mirror

25, 4, 2017 - ‘Kelly did all his feats upon / The Devil’s Looking Glass, a stone; / Where playing with him at .... Read More

Episode 32: The Paperclip

18, 4, 2017 - Americans bought 11 billion paper clips last year – that’s about 35 paper clips per person.  .... Read More

Episode 31: The Scar

11, 4, 2017 - ‘Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling’  .... Read More

Episode 30: Toilets

11, 4, 2017 - ‘Then his Grace rose to go upon his stool which, with the working of the pills and the .... Read More

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