An interview with Cullercoats artist Penelope Payne exploring her herring lass works, reflections on Hill & Adamson's The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth and Winslow Homer's Cullercoats paintings, lots of stuff about fishwives, fisher

Lenten Stuffe

Mar 4th, 2022 39m 12s

Everything you ever wanted to know about fasting and fish, in particular the herring! General fast days, Ember Days and, of course, Lent. How did Christian fasting develop? What is the whole fish thing all about? What manifestations of herring

What's in a Name?

Feb 10th, 2022 44m 42s

From The Great Sardine Litigation to the taxonomy of the herring; evolution to the racial theory of the herring; from ice ages to global warming... Featuring Enoch Snow of Carousel, The Notorious B.I.G., The Junk Yard Band, the Oscars Hammerste

Sovereign of the Seas

Nov 17th, 2021 43m 42s

Our hero, the herring, and the sad story of C17th struggles for British maritime sovereignty and fishing limits, the chopping down of Chopwell Wood and the chopping off of Charles I's head, not to mention the fishy obsessions of the House of St

Of Beginnings and Fundamental Ends

Sep 13th, 2021 40m 42s

From the Sea of Tethys to the Cold War waters of the Baltic, from C10th Norway to C20th harengophiles in the UK government, the curative powers of the herring to herring cravings in pregnancy, the origins of the herring to the origins of Rigby'

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