Time Travellers

BBC

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales from the corners of history, exploring a different theme in each weekly episode.

  • 24 minutes 49 seconds
    Carols, carouses, and ceasefires: Christmas special

    In this final episode of the series, Eleanor and the Time Travelling team head to the pub - via an almshouse and the Western Front - for some festive cheer, discovering the stories behind the music of Christmastide from across the British Isles. Happy Christmas and a merry New Year!

    27 December 2019, 10:20 am
  • 20 minutes 4 seconds
    Music and food: a match made in heaven

    What links Henry VIII and ice cream vans? Which opera diva got her own (just) desserts? Which Orcadian cake would you not want to eat? Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough tucks into these and other vital questions in this episode exploring the (mostly) delicious relationship between music and food.

    18 December 2019, 12:03 pm
  • 16 minutes 53 seconds
    Four glorious eccentrics

    Green nail varnish? Tick. Cycling knickerbockers? Tick. Pet giraffe? Tick. Dancing and playing violin on stilts? Tick. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and the Time Travelling team as they delve into the weird worlds of four musical eccentrics.

    11 December 2019, 3:31 pm
  • 17 minutes 52 seconds
    Lost at sea

    Don your Sou'wester and join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she sets sail to discover salty stories of music and musicians at sea. From a composer's capsized canoe to a much more tragic shipwreck, from a haunted lighthouse to deserted islands, our Time Travellers explore the seafaring musical stories from the far south to the extreme north of the British Isles. Oh, and there are sheep, too. Soggy sheep.

    4 December 2019, 5:23 pm
  • 17 minutes 6 seconds
    Folk music and musical folk

    Blow the dust off your squeezebox and strap on your gaiters as we go searching across the British Isles for the music of ordinary (and extraordinary) folk. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her band of merry music historians in their discovery of the stories behind British folk music past and present.

    27 November 2019, 4:02 pm
  • 18 minutes 26 seconds
    Myths, legends and supernannies

    From the Arthurian legends of Cornwall to a saintly Viking in Orkney via everyone's favourite nanny, join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she adventures through time in search of gems of music history from across the British Isles and Ireland.

    20 November 2019, 2:19 pm
  • 16 minutes 11 seconds
    Slave songs, pit songs, songs in dark times

    From the plantations of the new world to the pits of County Durham, join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough as she discovers stories of the power of music in hard times. Each story is located in a specific place in the British Isles, from Shetland to Truro.

    13 November 2019, 5:00 pm
  • 18 minutes 24 seconds
    A quartet of musical superwomen

    They mightn't be sporting spandex suits, but these four musical women deserve superhero status. Join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough for four stories of musical superwomen from British and Irish history.

    6 November 2019, 3:00 pm
  • 16 minutes 54 seconds
    A whistle-stop tour of four intriguing instruments

    From the humble penny whistle to the Mighty Wurlitzer, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the stories behind four intriguing musical instruments and their relationships with locations in Great Britain.

    30 October 2019, 11:18 am
  • 17 minutes 45 seconds
    Celeb-spotting stories: four tales of musical celebs from history

    Sensational sopranos, comedy geniuses, and a very popular organist... Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough snoops through the spy glasses of history for scoops on musical celebs from the past. The first in our new series exploring tales of music-making from across the UK and Ireland.

    23 October 2019, 4:00 pm
  • 19 minutes
    Five objects that tell the story of the River Thames

    Get your boots on and head down to the River Thames with mudlark Lara Maiklem, as she discovers the history of London hidden in mud.

    17 May 2019, 11:00 am
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