RHLSTP Book Club 102 - James Wright
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Book Club #102 - Richard talks to archaeologist and trained stonemason James Wright about his terrific book busting some of the myths about ancient buildings. They chat about why people wrongly believe that spiral staircases are often clockwise, how castles were bling rather than defensive, why you can’t trust anything written on a pub, why stonemasons carved grotesque and pornographic sculptures on churches (and pre-empted one of Richard’s best known emergency questions), what the marks left on buildings might have meant and why the truth in most of these cases is far more interesting than the lies.
Visit James' website - https://triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mythbustingtour/
Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/historic-building-mythbusting-uncovering-folklore-history-and-archaeology-james-wright/7633234?ean=9781803994475
See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Stinkboms, welcome to the Richard Herring podcast feed. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening, it's powered by A-CAS Plus. |
| 0:07.1 | Do join us if you want to get loads of extras. |
| 0:10.9 | Thanks to everyone who's come to the Can I Have My Ball Back Tour. |
| 0:15.0 | It's been epic getting four-star reviews or around the block and really good audiences. |
| 0:21.2 | We're coming up to lots of small places that could all pretty much do with an audience. |
| 0:25.2 | Friday 21st of June I'm in Bridport at the Electric Palace. |
| 0:28.7 | Hopefully it's not Literally Electric. 22nd of June I'm in the I'm in Ipswich. |
| 0:32.2 | That's selling pretty well that one for a place that I was |
| 0:35.0 | once sick on my own diarrhea and then I've got Swindham Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Cheltenham, Monmouth, Carlisle, Lancaster, Barnard Castle, I'm not going to do the obvious joke. We should have a new government by the time I'm in |
| 0:46.6 | Barnard castle do remember to vote. Richard Herring.com slash gigs or Richard Herring |
| 0:51.9 | or Richard Herring.com slash ball or Richard Herring dot com slash tour. |
| 0:53.7 | There's loads of Raulusper dates coming up in the autumn as well in |
| 0:56.5 | Birmingham and London and then some in Leicester in the new year as well. |
| 1:01.0 | Go to Ritchiehane.com slash Raula Stipper |
| 1:03.8 | for that one. Anyway let's sit back and relax and enjoy some more beautiful |
| 1:08.0 | podcasts. Oh and stop press I've just added a load of new brilliant items to my eBay page |
| 1:14.4 | Herring 1967 with some Ruhlister Petitia, some self-playing snooker stuff, some stone |
| 1:20.0 | clearing stuff, some fister fun stuff, lots of great things. Go and check it out, eBay. |
| 1:24.9 | Co. UK Herring 1967. |
| 1:28.2 | And all the money from that will go to make more Budgast, thanks. |
| 1:31.7 | This episode is brought to you by Club Lloyds from Lloyds Bank. |
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