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Lo-fi clip-clops and bleats to relax/study to. Welcome to the official podcast of The Museum of English Rural Life. Based at the University of Reading, we explore the past, present and future of the English countryside. Hosted by Joe Vaughan and Dr Ollie Douglas. Chaotic Good.
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44 minutes
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English
United Kingdom
43 episodes
since Feb. 27, 2025
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In 2013, we acquired a collection of over 1,800 rural films that had been carefully assembled, preserved, and frequently shared by a Nottinghamshire farmer called Richard Watts.
Now, with funding from the BFI, we've been able to work on this incredible archive, cataloguing th…
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Sorry we missed a week! We're catching up after both being out on leave.
In this episode, Joe and Ollie chat about what they've been up to lately with many surprising links to rural history: from Ollie's son sending him surreal livestock portraiture on WhatsApp, to J…
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What will farming look like in 100 years time? That's the question asked by a group of University of Reading PhD students, managed by Rosy Scholes and Ellen Knight, as part of the University of Reading's centenary celebrations.
In this pod, Joe and Ollie catch up with Ros…
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How do you lead a rural history museum in 2026? What does that look like in practice? And how does our contemporary work vary to the vision of our founders back in 1951?
In this second of two conversations with Kate Arnold-Forster, Director of The Museum of English Rural Life and t…
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So far we've spoken a lot about The Museum of English Rural Life's earliest years. Yet so much of what we are today results from a radical rethinking of what The MERL can be, which has happened under the brilliant stewardship of Kate Arnold-Forster, Director of The Museum…
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What have we been up to lately? What's coming up? And what's the rural significance of Bad Bunny's performance at the Superbowl?
In this episode, Joe and Ollie have a general chat about a bunch of different topics, which each connect - in some surprising ways - to th…
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We're back with our second episode with the University of Reading's Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel! We continue talking about their Nature-centric Catalyst project, how we can rebuild our relationships with the natural world, and what's coming up next for our collaborat…
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How does humanity fit into nature? How long have we viewed ourselves as being apart from it? And what are the problems that creates?
This time, we chat with Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel from the University of Reading to learn about their Nature-centric Catalyst project. We discuss t…
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Okay. Take 2.
Last month we drew to a close two major installations at The MERL: our gallery trail Radical Rural, and our exhibition Voices of the Countryside.
In this episode, Joe and Ollie reflect on these two projects. We explore what we learned from them, what they meant to us,…
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Greetings, friends and listeners. We had a problem with this week's episode where the SD card that we're using for recording has broken, leaving us with a very patchy episode not really fit for human consumption. We will be putting our best minds to the matter of resolvin…
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