79 Episodes

  1. Janie’s father is suddenly taken ill

    Published: 03/09/2022

  2. A street brawl and the assault of a police constable

    Published: 27/08/2022

  3. Q&A Bonus Episode (Season 2)

    Published: 20/08/2022

  4. Easter 1882, Fred gets booed at football

    Published: 13/08/2022

  5. Village gossip, and more pillow talk

    Published: 06/08/2022

  6. Janie's confirmation, and Fred's ex caught in the act

    Published: 30/07/2022

  7. An inquest, and Fred has no head for whisky

    Published: 23/07/2022

  8. The Cleveland Cup, a poisoning, and a suicide

    Published: 16/07/2022

  9. "Emma has been as nasty as possible!"

    Published: 09/07/2022

  10. A sackable offence

    Published: 02/07/2022

  11. Pillow talk - Victorian style

    Published: 25/06/2022

  12. A Victorian intervention? Our William talks to Emma.

    Published: 18/06/2022

  13. All I want is a dining room somewhere

    Published: 11/06/2022

  14. Good health is in short supply

    Published: 04/06/2022

  15. "She is killing him by inches"

    Published: 28/05/2022

  16. Your good angel

    Published: 21/05/2022

  17. The possible health benefits of a conjugal visit

    Published: 14/05/2022

  18. 'Human Magnetism', and Emma's steals Janie's keys!

    Published: 07/05/2022

  19. Catching up with all the news

    Published: 30/04/2022

  20. Making up is hard to do

    Published: 23/04/2022

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Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.  "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times.  This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.