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The Log Books

Aunt Nell

**Best New Podcast (Gold) at the British Podcast Awards 2020**What if you could glimpse into LGBTQIA+ life from decades ago? Since 1974 volunteers at Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline, have wr...

Episodes

20 of 87 episodes

WEED (no, not that) - 029

Tash interviews Simon Olmetti who is the editor of WEED magazine , about art and writing that is entangled with nature, and vice versa. Also...

40:56Oct 29, 2026

Human power - 028

Adam meets Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK, to hear about the intertwined history of humanism and the march for LGBTQ+ rights...

55:49Oct 21, 2026

Tranny Central zine - 027

Jaye Hudson, trans superstar and founder of TGirlsonFilm, joins us to launch the new edition of Tranny Central , a zine seeking to give flow...

41:35Oct 14, 2026

East-end Lou the lesbian - 026

We’re joined in this episode by Lou, a potty-mouthed truth teller, compassionate friend, loving mother, proud feminist and iconic lesbian. L...

45:16Oct 7, 2026

Ghost rivers - 025

Tash entertains Adam with ghost rivers - natural waterways that get diverted or covered by cities. It’s a subject that has fed into Tash’s r...

27:37Sep 30, 2026

Art about Switchboard, with Sean McKenzie - 024

Tash meets the artist Sean McKenzie as he prepares to open his new exhibition, The Night Shift, at the Pale Horse Gallery in London . Like u...

45:08Sep 23, 2026

The power of singing together, with F*Choir - 023

Tash interviews Jenny Moore and Bianca Stephens from F*Choir , one of London’s longest running queer choirs, as the project prepares to wind...

51:03Sep 16, 2026

Is porn a sex life? - 022

Adam bares all! In this episode, Tash interviews Adam about how he uses porn. It opens up a rabbit hole, so to speak, about culture, politic...

47:59Sep 9, 2026

When We All Get to Heaven (with Lynne Gerber) - 021

Tash interviews Lynne Gerber who is the host and producer of the podcast series When We All Get to Heaven . We hear how Lynne found boxes of...

53:51Sep 2, 2026

Fancy Work - 020

You might love William Morris and his fancy wallpaper... but did you know about his daughter, May Morris? She did many of the famous textile...

1:08:17Aug 26, 2026

Try selling poppers! - 019

When Bill Hartwell started selling poppers online he was surprised to discover that payment companies didn’t want his business. In this excl...

27:21Aug 19, 2026

David Shenton’s life in cartoons - 018

Adam got to meet the artist David Shenton and get a sneak peek of his retrospective exhibition at Norwich Castle and Museum. David’s 50+ yea...

34:06Aug 12, 2026

Barbers beyond gender - 017

Tash went for a haircut and took the mic along! Their barber is the marvellous LP, who talked to Tash about seeing clients who are fed up wi...

38:35Aug 5, 2026

The 90s mayhem of Stuart Linden Rhodes - 016

You’ve not seen queer nightlife until you’ve seen it through the lens of the photographer Linden. Adam met Stuart , the man behind the lens,...

38:40Jul 29, 2026

The Sound of Trans Freedom - 015

A stack of letters written by trans people asking for help in the 90s is an essential piece of queer history. The letters are rightly kept c...

52:39Jul 22, 2026

Hastings queer history - 014

Tash went along to Hastings for a tour of Lemons, Laws and Secret Doors — an exhibition made by a local queer collective all about their his...

55:15Jul 15, 2026

FKA twigs, and why Adam is an alien - 013

Adam takes Tash on a deep dive of the artist FKA twigs: her style, her drive, her weirdness, and of course her delicious music. We covered t...

41:25Jul 8, 2026

Bradford’s queer history - 012

Tash got a tour of Bradford’s queer history with Alice Parsons, who runs the city’s Castles in the Sky project. We learnt all about the loca...

38:38Jul 1, 2026

‘Sferics’: the spooky sound of connection - 011

Tash has tuned into the secret sounds of electricity pylons (no, really) and discovered something unique about human connection and queer ex...

31:32Jun 24, 2026

Our exclusive tour of Queer Britain - 010

Tash went down to Kings Cross in London to visit the newly re-opened Queer Britain museum. From nightclubs like Club Kali to footballers lik...

38:16Jun 17, 2026