SIM Ep 470 Chops 195: Lucy Worsley has Blitz Spirit

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Eighty years since The Blitz terrorised the British public, we find ourselves back in confusing, scary and dangerous times. In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces and TV historian extraordinaire Lucy Worsley about her new documentary Blitz Spirit. They talk about people working on the frontline of the Home Front, what history can teach us about these strange times we live in now and whether our current experiences can help us understand the past a bit better. Tuck in! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Standard Issue Podcast is sponsored by AJ Bell Money Matters,
0:04.6	helping women to feel good investing. No doubt you'll have heard us talk about the gender pay gap,
0:09.2	but did you note there's also a gender investment gap in the UK of £1.65 trillion.
0:16.9	So, after spending our whole working lives worse off the men through lack of pensions,
0:21.6	savings and investments, we're more likely to be worse off in retirement too. AJ Bell think
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1:07.8	Standard Issue for all women. Hello, Hannah here and welcome to this week's Sunday Chops
1:14.3	and well have we got a treat for you. So, as you know, I love love love a bit of history and
1:21.6	this week I'm talking to chief curator of historical role palaces and maker of some mighty fine
1:28.0	television, Dr Lucy Warsley. I know. In January I spoke to Mary Beard and now Lucy Warsley,
1:34.6	who knows, maybe Barbara Fields by May and the Ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt sometime over the summer.
1:40.3	Keep your ears peeled. Anyway, Lucy has made a documentary, Blitz Spirit which airs on BBC 1 at
1:46.8	8.30 on the 23rd of February. That's this Tuesday, if you are listening to this podcast in
1:52.5	some sort of a timely fashion or in the past if you're not. But it will be on the eye player if
1:58.2	that's the case. Either way you should absolutely watch it because it's excellent and it poses the
2:03.6	question of whether the Blitz Spirit is an intrinsic part of Britishness, if it was a confection of
2:09.2	propagandists or something in between. And it's all told using the diary entries of ordinary people
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