Monthly Archives: December 2012
My suggestions for Xmas holiday reading (warning: really quite royal)
Like me, you may well currently be stockpiling some nice new books to read over the Christmas holidays, so here are some suggestions. I’ve read and enjoyed each of these over the last few months. Yes, the list has an eccentrically royal flavour because I’ve been working on a TV project about the history of
Continue ReadingWhat it’s like to appear on The Today Programme
This Wednesday morning I was on The Today Programme on Radio 4, to talk about the research done by Dr Helen O’Connell at Durham University into peasant women’s lives in nineteenth-century Ireland. She’d rather brilliantly discovered how they were castigated by their social superiors for drinking tea: i.e. wasting their money, getting addicted to it,
Continue ReadingHow I deal with The Cold
People often ask me if I enjoy filming TV programmes, and the answer is YES. Of course! We go to interesting places, at interesting times of day (it’s wonderful being in silent, deserted Westminster Abbey at 7am). I get to interview experts, which means I spend two hours asking them anything I want in the
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