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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 79 episodes

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

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

Staying afloat - 009

It feels like life is pulling many of us down at the moment — so we asked each other: what do you do to stay afloat? We discuss swimming, so...

22:37Jun 10, 2026

Hunky Jesus - 008

Every Easter in San Francisco, there’s a competition to find the best hunky Jesus. We didn’t go to it, BUT we spoke to Sister Roma, one of t...

36:31Jun 3, 2026

Second adolescence - 007

Why have one adolescence when you can have two? That’s the reality for many LGBTQ+ people. So let’s talk about what happens when you come ou...

39:31May 27, 2026

Ghosts of your former self - 006

We’ve got a star guest this week! Tino Orsini is a versatile character actor — you might have seen him playing the artist Banksy in Ted Lass...

35:42May 20, 2026

Lab rats - 005

Tash has been reading some intriguing studies about the psychology of lab rats — and has discovered something about themself in the process....

27:29May 13, 2026

Inherent Vice - 004

We make no secret that we’re obsessed with queer history and heritage. So in this episode Tash met Shoun Obana who’s created a zine called I...

25:30May 6, 2026

An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - 003

Sometimes you read a book and feel ‘this is a bit of me!’ That’s how we both felt reading An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, so we wanted to tal...

27:35Apr 29, 2026

Margate Queer Library and Archive - 002

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside… Tash went for a swim (Adam went to the cafe), but we BOTH went to the Margate Queer Library and Arc...

34:22Apr 22, 2026