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09.12.2023
28 Minuten
Season 5, bonus episode. Ingrid answers listeners' questions,
talks about the future of My Love Letter Time Machine, and
introduces her Grandfather Owen's memoirs, (who was a nurse in
the Royal Navy during WW2). Ingrid will come back with Janie’s
story in the Spring in a new season of the podcast, and then lead
into story of her family getting through the first world war, the
depression, the second world war and out the other side, as well
as taking a look at history through the eyes of a very ordinary
working class family in Sheffield.
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02.12.2023
25 Minuten
Season 5, episode 12. 1893 to 1894. I’m so sorry to break
your hearts, but mine is broken too. In 1894, after a protracted
chest infection, Fred started coughing up blood + with horror, he
+ Janie would have realised that they were staring tuberculosis
in the face.
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25.11.2023
29 Minuten
Season 5, episode 11. 1890 to 1893. Janie and Fred move to the
seaside in Redcar, North Yorkshire, we get to have rather a
lovely snapshot of their life together with financial
security, social mobility and even some balls and banquets.
However back in Sheffield, Tuberculosis rears its ugly
head.
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18.11.2023
30 Minuten
Season 5, episode 10. September 1883 to August 1889. We follow
Janie and Fred's growing family, catch up with their family and
friends back in Sheffield, and the goings on at the North Eastern
Steel Company in Middlesbrough, as well as take a look at the
impact of the first globally reported disaster.
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05.11.2023
28 Minuten
Season 5, episode 9. October 1882 - November 1883. We follow
Janie and Fred's first year of as newlyweds as they settle into
married life in Middlesbrough, but back in Handsworth, Sheffield,
all is not well. 1883 proves a year of highs and lows, of birth,
marriage and death.
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Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024,
2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.
"Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family
history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred
and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and
their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight
into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times
they lived in." — The Times. This is a true story, a love
story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social
history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a
correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great
grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to
make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and
later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of
characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who
advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to
Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the
newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of
the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family
objection to their match and through their own will and
determination, made a new life together.
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