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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...

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Listen to The Log Books, a Society & Culture podcast by Aunt Nell. Stream 61 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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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

The Stories of Our Lives - 001

We’re relaunching your favourite podcast! We’re Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, and EVERY WEEK we get together to talk about history, politics,...

30:44Apr 15, 2026

Queer roots | Episode 15

Tash and Adam listen to Abi McIntosh, our youngest interviewee!, who first listed her sexuality on MySpace... Abi also reflects on her exper...

33:00Apr 8, 2026

Being both | Episode 14

Adam and Tash hear from Faizan, who co-founded Imaan, a network for queer Muslims. Faizan recalls what it felt like to be growing up as a Br...

29:52Apr 1, 2026

Girl power | Episode 13

Adam and Tash listen to Steph Fuller recall what it was like for trans women to go out on the town in the 90s. Steph reflects on growing up...

34:10Mar 26, 2026

Active listening | Episode 12

Tash and Adam hear from Monty Moncrieff, who took calls for Switchboard for years and now runs London Friend . Monty remembers what it was l...

28:59Mar 19, 2026

No going back | Episode 11

Adam and Tash hear from Clare Truscott, a riotous femme punk who tirelessly serves her community and always has an abundance of stories to t...

33:50Mar 12, 2026

Never pretending | Episode 10

Tash and Adam listen to Catherine Lee, who qualified as a teacher in the late 80s at a time when it was impossible for lesbians like her to...

33:00Mar 5, 2026

Leather and love | Episode 9

Tash and Adam hear from Richard Desmond, aka Switchboard’s once resident leather queen. Richard reflects on a life in the LGBTQ+ community,...

29:33Feb 26, 2026

Dream homes | Episode 8

Tash and Adam listen to Graham McKerrow, who was editor of the newspaper Capital Gay in the 80s. Graham reflects on his gay adolescence in t...

44:19Feb 19, 2026

Standing up, standing out | Episode 7

Adam and Tash hear from Andy Piccos, whose memories of Switchboard stretch back to 1977. Andy remembers the queer family he met through volu...

34:07Feb 12, 2026

Life lessons | Episode 6

Tash and Adam catch-up with Femi Otitoju, one of the original contributors of The Log Books podcast, and one of Switchboard’s most valuable...

32:50Feb 5, 2026

Exclusive book extract! | Episode 5

Our book is published TODAY! In this special episode, Tash and Adam read an exclusive excerpt from The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain an...

34:37Jan 29, 2026

The new life (and again) | Episode 4

Tash and Adam hear from Anson Mackay, who left a tiny, remote town in Scotland to embrace a gay identity, and then later another queer ident...

42:23Jan 22, 2026

Queer family solidarity | Episode 3

Adam and Tash are joined in this episode by Diana James, who discovered herself as a dyke in the 80s and joined Switchboard as its first tra...

31:13Jan 15, 2026

A teacher’s reckoning | Episode 2

Tash and Adam hear from Ruth Turner, who qualified as a teacher in the 1980s at the height of a destructive public debate over gay and lesbi...

31:19Jan 8, 2026

Switchboard’s first night | Episode 1

Adam and Tash’s first guest is John Lindsay, one of the founders of Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ helpline. John takes us back to the f...

28:47Jan 1, 2026

All-new season, all-new interviews

The UK’s best LGBTQ+ history podcast is BACK. After three groundbreaking seasons from 2019-22, featuring the unique archives at Switchboard,...

0:47Dec 18, 2025

Introducing... The Quilt

The Quilt: Living memories of queer Britain & Northern Ireland An audio exhibition open to anyone, anywhere, at any time of day, produced an...

5:16Nov 12, 2024

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