Welcome back to your new favourite weekly podcast! Every Friday join two old friends as they share a forgotten story from world history. All the things you never learnt about in school, with a big helping of warmth and laughter, the perfect commute pod!

This week Andrea tells the story of a Kent man who led a very ordinary and sensible life indeed. Until he retired and discovered the joys of sea swimming. All year swimming might be fashionable now but for a retired MP in the late 1700s it was a very unusual sight!

Then come along with Annie as she tells the story of one of the inter-war period bright young things. A multi talented artist himself, he was surrounded by the stars of the day from authors, to painters to musicians. Throw in a penchant for silly jokes, an LGBTQ polycule room mate and the invitation to join a horse for afternoon tea and you have one of the UKs most interesting eccentrics.

For this episode Andrea used these sources:

https://kids.kiddle.co/Matthew_Robinson,_2nd_Baron_Rokeby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Robinson,_2nd_Baron_Rokeby#:~:text=Matthew%20Robinson%2C%202nd%20Baron%20Rokeby%20(Baptised%2C%20York%2012%20April,stipple%20engraving%2C%20with%20tricorn%20hat.

https://medium.com/@DigitalTiger/great-british-eccentrics-1-2c3d275768ed

For this episode Annie used these sources:

https://www.faringdon.org/berners-more-information.html

https://www.classical-music.com/features/composers/lord-berners-2

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