June 11, 2026

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

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 resolving this and will be back with the podcast we intended to put out next week. Thank you for sticking with The Museum of English Rural Life.

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Absolute Units is the official podcast of The Museum of English Rural Life. This series is made possible through the generous support of Arts Council England and Museums Partnership Reading, a partnership of The MERL with Reading Museum. Theme tune by Tai Dawson. This podcast contains audio from Epidemic Sound.

Co-hosts: Ollie Douglas and Joe Vaughan
Producer: Joe Vaughan

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