World Salad

About World Salad

World Salad is a podcast with no particular theme. I write about things that interest me, and from time-to-time speak to interesting people - I hope they interest you too. I do so to offer my perspective, and to share insights on all aspects of art, culture, history, science & technology - mixing it all up until something makes sense. New episodes are released weekly, usually on a Friday – and due to the looseness of content and format, things are liable to develop over time. Why not subscribe, wherever you listen to podcasts, so you can stay up to date? If you would like to support World Salad, please consider leaving a rating and/or review, following the show on its social media channels (links below) and sharing it with your nearest and dearest. World Salad is written, recorded and produced by Chris Hodson (https://christopherhodson.co.uk). Instagram: @world__salad (https://instagram.com/world__salad) Available on: Acast, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Samsung, Podchaser, JioSaavn, Deezer and at christopherhodson.co.uk/world-salad (https://christopherhodson.co.uk/world-salad). Main theme: Brain Freeze by Geoffrey Burch, from Pixabay (CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode )) - Outro music: Brain Freeze played in reverse. Intro / Outro background music: Echo Park by Rest You Sleeping Giant (CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)). All content, unless otherwise stated © Christopher Hodson. All rights reserved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Chris Hodson

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2022

Latest episode

21 Oct 2022

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2022

   Trouble at t'mill

   WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of the mistreatment of children, and references to slavery which some listeners may find upsetting. Two businessmen and a surveyor walk into the woods – not the beginning of some hilarious wisecrack, but the first few steps towards cementing a legacy. Traversing the sylvan slopes of the Cheshire countryside and clambering through dense vegetation along the river Bollin; engineer Hugh Oldham, merchant John Massey and ambitious textile tycoon Samuel Greg are prospecting for the perfect place to construct one of the first purpose built cotton mills of the Industrial Revolution. Around nine miles south of Manchester they stumbled across the serene bucolic backwater of Ferney Brow, a virgin glade at the bottom of a leafy valley, a short walk from the tiny village of Styal. It is here in seventeen eighty-four that the foundations were laid for not only one of the world’s first factories, but for a discrepant dynasty which would play it’s part in transforming the modern world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   9 Sept 2022

   Bread and Circuit Boards.

   A short one this week, and purely my opinion on the 'Metaverse'. If you would like to support World Salad, please consider leaving a rating and/or review, following the show on its social media channels (links below) and sharing it with your nearest and dearest. World Salad is written, recorded and produced by Chris Hodson. Instagram: @world__salad Intro / Outro background music: Echo Park by Rest You Sleeping Giant (CC BY 4.0) Main theme: Brain Freeze by Geoffrey Burch, from Pixabay (CC BY 4.0) – Outro theme music: Brain Freeze played in reverse. All content, unless otherwise stated © Christopher Hodson. All rights reserved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   25 Aug 2022

   The Strange Tale Of Thomas Of Eldersfield.

   WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and physical mutilation which some people may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised. Let me take you back over eight hundred years to the Thirteenth Century, to Weogorancaester [wea-goran-chayster], or ‘Worcester’ as we know it today, and recount a tale of lust, repentance, jealousy and redemption. Sources: Spackman FT. The ancient monuments and historic buildings of Worcester. Birmingham: Midland Educational Co. Ltd; 1913. Hyams PR. Tales from the medieval courtroom: The fall and rise of Thomas of Eldersfield. Pasadena, CA: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology; 1985. Available from: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/18859/1/HumsWP-0107.pdf (https://authors.library.caltech.edu/18859/1/HumsWP-0107.pdf) The History Jar. Medieval marriage II – adultery [internet]. 2017 [cited 2022/08/09]. Available from: https://https://thehistoryjar.com/2017/08/03/medieval-marriage-ii-adultery/ (https://https://thehistoryjar.com/2017/08/03/medieval-marriage-ii-adultery/) Also contains music: Pagan Cross, and The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com (https://www.silvermansound.com/) A full list of the CC licensed sound effects used in this episode can also be found here (https://christopherhodson.co.uk/world-salad/sound-effects/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   25 Aug 2022

   Dead Centre.

   A pretty grim chapter in the history of Paris; The story of Les Innocents, an over subscribed medieval cemetery located in what is now the Les Halles district of the city. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.