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A podcast made by staff and volunteers of this museum service in Brighton & Hove on the south coast of England. Dr Sophie Frost meets some of the people who keep these civic museums relevant for the 21st century, and discovers more about the work that goes on behind the scenes -- from the sublime to the ridiculously mundane. Presented by Dr Sophie Frost and edited by Lo-Fi Arts, this podcast is supported by the One by One Research Project, The Keep, and Arts Council England.
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In the final episode of Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Sophie interviews Nicola Adams, Digital Marketing Officer and Tasha Brown, Museum Futures Trainee - two individuals who perhaps typify the future of our museums - about their hopes and dreams for the future of the organisation. This episode meditates on how, more than ever, the stories…
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This penultimate episode explores the ever-increasing role of digital technology in our cultural organisations by talking to Kevin Bacon, Digital Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Kevin takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his own experiences of working with technology at the museum over the past 20 years and provides an insight into how it has tr…
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In 2019, over 120 items of furniture and decorative objects from the Royal Collection Trust were loaned to their original home at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton after 170 years away. Dr Alexandra Loske, Curator at the Royal Pavilion, talks to Sophie about their homecoming, and explains the prescience of the Prince Regent’s infamous collection for B…
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In the first episode of the final series, Sophie speaks to Amy Junker-Heslip and Carola Del Mese, two members of the conservation team at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Amy and Carola share stories about some of delicate, painstaking and surprisingly creative work they have undertaken to help ‘make things last forever’ at this museum service.…
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In the final episode of the series, Sophie goes behind the scenes with Dan Robertson, Curator of Local History and Archeology at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Dan’s seemingly infinite descriptions of Victorian Egyptologists, holy water sprinklers, German mausers, grid irons, Sussex loops and the deepest hand-dug well in the world capture the unique and…
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Robert White and Kelly Boddington, two early participants of the workforce development programme at Royal Pavilion & Museums, who spearheaded LGBTQ+ interpretation in its current form across the organisation. Kelly, who works by day as Assistant Buyer in the Retail team and Rob, a Marketing Support Officer and B…
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The Booth Museum of Natural History is a museum of Victorian taxidermy (notably of British birds), but also insects, fossils, bones and skeletons. On TripAdvisor it has been described as “a place of wonder, with a bit of terror thrown in.” In this episode Sophie is joined by Lee Ismail, Curator of Natural Sciences at the Booth, who introduces the m…
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Rachel Heminway-Hurst, Curator of World Art, and Edith Ojo, freelance Arts Consultant and advisor on the Fashioning Africa project. Rachel and Edith explain the history and culture behind Yoruba Aso-oke textiles from West Africa, helping us to understand the symbolic importance of a British coastal museum collec…
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Sophie meets some of the ‘walking encyclopaedias’ who work on the frontline at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Marcus Bagshaw, Sue Winkett, Clare Hartfield and Zak Flannery all work in the Visitor Services team across the organisation’s five sites. They provide a rollicking, unpredictable and alternative tour of Brighton’s museum service in this episode …
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In the first episode of Season 2, Sophie speaks to Nick Kay, Workforce Development Officer at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Launched in 2012, Royal Pavilion & Museums’ innovative workforce development programme is a unique example of an on-the-job museum training scheme. Nick talks about the ethos behind the scheme, what has made the initiative so succ…
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Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums is a podcast series that tells the rich and varied stories of the museum people who keep Brighton’s historic buildings and collections relevant, vibrant and accessible for the world we are living in. The series is presented by Dr Sophie Frost, who was embedded as an action researcher at Royal Pavilion & Museum…
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Dr Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art and Sarah Lee, Consultant and Advisor to RPM as well as Co-Founder of Brighton and Hove Black History. Helen and Sarah discuss how RPM’s recent Black and Minority Ethnic cultural heritage projects have adopted ground-breaking practices of co-production and collaboration by wor…
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Robert Hill-Snook is Head Gardener of the Royal Pavilion gardens in the heart of Brighton, having been in post for almost 25 years. Sophie takes a stroll with Robert as he reflects on his working life in this Regency garden, ruminating on how the garden – and nature more generally – continues to be a tonic for many of life’s ills.…
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Preston Manor is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain. In this episode Sophie talks to Chris Drake (Development and Operations Manager at Preston Manor), Paula Wrightson (Venue Officer), Lavender Jones (long-standing volunteer) and David Beevers (former Keeper of Preston Manor), who help us to understand the cast of characters (g…
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During the First World War, the Royal Pavilion was converted into a hospital for Indian soldiers, wounded on the battlefields of the Western Front. Jody East, Creative Programme Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums, joins Sophie to discuss how RPM has commemorated this significant story and how focusing on emotional connections and people rather tha…
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Janita Bagshawe, Head of Royal Pavilion & Museums, and David Beevers, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, have between them over 70 years’ experience working for the museum service in Brighton and Hove. Sophie speaks to two members of the organisation’s old guard as they muse upon the waves of change to have occurred during their tenure, revealing how fl…
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In this first episode, Sophie joins Early Years Learning Officer Michael Olden and the skin of a Siberian Tiger named ‘Boris’ on an outing to Moulsecoomb Primary School, in the north east of Brighton. By following Michael on a day trip to one of the UK’s most socially deprived suburbs we explore how, even if children are unable to visit the museum …
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