The Poison Room Podcast

It's been just over a year since the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol took a sudden swim in the local harbour. What's happened in that year? Statement by Countering Colston: https://counteringcolston.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/countering-colston-statement-on-the-merchants-venturers-29th-june-2020/ GoFundMe for the Colston Four: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gladcolstonsgone-support-the-bristol-topplers-d The MShed's Online exhibition: https://exhibitions.bristolmuseums.org.uk/the-colston-statue/?utm_source=whatson&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=colston For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

This episode continues the story of the statue of Edward Coston, that statue, and the mystery of the missing second plaque. If you want to see a Tory councillor posing proudly with a racist mascot, here's the article with the photo: https://tinyurl.com/ycp7wscs Photo of the plaque after the statue came down: https://tinyurl.com/ybrrekuf For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

This week we're talking about racist statues glorifying slave traders. In particular, we're talking about one specific statue that made headlines when protestors in Bristol dumped it in the harbour. But how did Bristol end up with a statue glorifying a slave trader in the first place? Images: Image of the monument to Colston inside All Saints Church: https://twitter.com/PoisonRoomPod/status/1277591699036999682?s=20 images of the plaques around the base of the statue: https://twitter.com/PoisonRoomPod/status/1277591703571050496?s=20 Image of the full statue as it stood before being pulled down: https://twitter.com/PoisonRoomPod/status/1277591706129530880?s=20 For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

The final instalment (for now?) On the Shugborough Inscription. Featuring: more theories than you can shake a stick at. Gibsian sarcophagi: https://twitter.com/PoisonRoomPod/status/1270296258566029313?s=20 For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

This isn't the final episode on the myriad theories about the Shugborough Inscription, but it IS the final episode about this particular theory. It's time to talk about Kabbalah, raising brides from the dead, and killing bridegrooms on their wedding day. For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

Q W O W Z R E V I F H F R O V L O Y L O G K I A S S Z K H N C R A E O Y A S T W D U P B B K For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

Part two of the discussion of the Shugborough Monument and its curious inscription, but part one of the discussion of one particular theory on what it means. I will never again assume I can cover a topic in a single episode. Here's a few photos of ancient Greco-Roman funeral stelae: https://twitter.com/PoisonRoomPod/status/1255178348558528513?s=20 For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

One monument. Ten letters. So many theories. Today's story is about a man called Thomas Anson, gardening, and... a wikipedia edit war? Photo of the whole monument, with a close up of the inscription at the bottom: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_crutchley/3849908948/ For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

Moo? For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

A gentle yet absurd story about some curious entries in an encyclopaedia. Featuring: botanists, naturalists, and Jesuits, oh my. For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com And look after yourselves.

What's happened to Cambodian literary culture since the fall of the Khmer Rouge? We can't possibly cover it all, but here are the stories of some of the institutions and individuals that have continued survive. Find 'Just a Human Being' on: Amazon.com: https://tinyurl.com/vnsrvzx Amazon co.uk: https://tinyurl.com/qtbzjad For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @ poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

What happened to books and literature under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge. Content warning: genocide. For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

This week's episode continues to look at the situation in Cambodia in the lead up to 1975. Newspapers, Revolutionary literature, and manifestos, Oh my. There's a small description of violence at one point it the episode. I give a head's up when I get to it so you can skip ahead 15 sec if you really don't want to hear it. For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

Time to delve into a pretty dark topic. This week's episode covers some of the background that led up to the Khmer Rouge, focusing on a newspaper - Nagara Vatta - and the editors of it. This first episode doesn't contain any descriptions of violence, but it does contain a lot of committees. For transcripts, references, and bibliographies for all episodes, visit: poisonroom.com Find the podcast on twitter: @poisonroompod Send an email: poisonroompodcast@gmail.com

The second half of the story of John Dee and some rival alchemists with a habit for forgery, conspiracy, and dragging John Dee.