Absolute Units
Hosted by Joe and Ollie · The Museum of English Rural Life
4.8from 36 ratings
- 40
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 36
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Absolute Units
Lo-fi clip-clops and bleats to relax/study to. Welcome to the official podcast of The Museum of English Rural Life. Based at the University of Reading, we explore the past, present and future of the English countryside. Hosted by Joe Vaughan and Dr Ollie Douglas. Chaotic Good.
- Publisher
- The Museum of English Rural Life
- Category
- arts · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 40 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026
Big sheep, little labels
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
So you want to make a time capsule (with Rosy Scholes and Ellen Knight)
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
21st-century MERL (with Kate Arnold-Forster)
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So you want to make a time capsule (with Rosy Scholes and Ellen Knight)
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because agroforestry, which is what we both studied or study, historically it's been around for thousands of years in the UK and then we kind of went through a big intensification period in the last century and it just dropped back down to pretty much zero and we're kind of realising how beneficial it was for a lot of reasons, ecologically and economically. But the point being that I hadn't really thought about that past until we started in the time capsule and it actually kind of opened my eyes to how these things change throughout time, I suppose, and how useful it is to recognize what happened in the past and let that inform our future. […]
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- Rosy Scholes
- Ellen Knight
- Kate Arnold-Forster
- Tom Oliver
- Marzia Briel
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- 4.8 / 5
- 36 ratings
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
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Joe and Ollie host the show. Published by The Museum of English Rural Life.
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