The legacy of Penrhyn Castle (Pt 1)
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🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As 2021 draws to a close, we revisit some of our favourite episodes of the year.
How has slavery shaped British history? On today's Stories of our times podcast, we look behind the grandeur and fine interiors of Penrhyn Castle, in north west Wales, to discover the dark history its foundations were built on. You may also be interested in this article from The Sunday Times: "Meet the sleuths researching their slave-trading ancestors".
This episode was first published in August 2021.
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Guests:
-April-Louise Pennant, Academic.
-Marian Gwyn, Welsh historian.
Host: Brenna Daldorph & David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Callum MacDonald here, winding down 2021 with you. Thank you so much for |
| 0:09.0 | listening. Thank you for subscribing to Stories of Our Times over the last year as well. |
| 0:13.3 | If you're just dropping in to get a bit of an idea, then this is actually a very good |
| 0:16.8 | week to do that. Because what we've done in the last few episodes, and indeed in this |
| 0:20.7 | one, is we've picked out some of the most significant, most important stories of our |
| 0:25.8 | times episodes from the last year. We think it's important to revisit these because they |
| 0:30.3 | are some of the most important stories of our times. They tell stories that we need to |
| 0:36.1 | hear, that we need to think about, that we need to analyse, and that perhaps we even need |
| 0:41.4 | to consider how we are responding to as well. |
| 0:45.8 | Today we're revisiting with you a series that we first broadcast in the summer. It's |
| 0:50.1 | about the difficult history and links to the slave trade of Penrin Castle in Wales. |
| 0:56.0 | Hi, David Aronovich here. Today you're going to be hearing the first part of our special |
| 1:03.3 | series, The Legacy of Penrin Castle. I'm handing over to producer Brenna Daldorff because |
| 1:09.8 | it's very much her gig. But first, just a warning. This podcast is about transatlantic |
| 1:16.5 | slavery and then some upsetting content. This particular episode contains references |
| 1:22.5 | to sexual violence and other forms of abuse. |
| 1:27.6 | Hi, I'm Brenna. I'm a producer for Stories of Our Times. And a few weeks ago, I found |
| 1:36.0 | myself in Cardiff's Central Station. I was about to travel right up to the north of Wales. |
| 1:41.4 | But the search for this story would also take me back in time and across the Atlantic to |
| 1:45.2 | Jamaica. This is a story about how slavery shaped British history and it's about two |
| 1:51.3 | people living in Wales who are trying to understand that complicated past and how it contributed |
| 1:56.2 | to the United Kingdom we live in today. It has such a significant impact on why I'm |
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