I wrote this song while walking in the muddy countryside near where I live in Oxfordshire. It reminded me of William Smith and his geological maps that changed the world - these are the colours written on the earth in the lyrics.Thank you to S

Singing in the Stable - how a 7th-century cowhand became the first named poet in England

May 14th, 2021 2m 14s

Hear a charming tale from Whitby Abbey’s earliest years, about Caedmon the cowhand. Unable to read or write, Caedmon nonetheless awoke one morning with a supernatural gift for putting scripture to music and singing it – becoming the first named

Bram_Stoker_Dracula_Diary

Apr 9th, 2019 3m 34s

Whitby Abbey commissioned me to retell stories about their atmospheric site, and record them for the new museum on site. In this Dracula Diary, I imagine Bram Stoker's real-life family holiday in Whitby, and how it inspired his most famous book

Diagnosis: House and Amongst the Reeds

Sep 15th, 2016 2m 24s

Two plays by Clean Break theatre company, telling serious stories about faith, hope, truth and justice. In 'House' a family reunion is going badly wrong, while in 'Amongst the Reeds', two young women struggle for survival on the streets.Rebec

Diagnosis: Tez Ilyas

Sep 15th, 2016 3m 39s

Comedian Tez Ilyas explores what it means to be a British Muslim in a world of post-Brexit uncertainty.Rebecca Mileham diagnoses the issues, between mouthfuls of dinner, in her first evening in Edinburgh for The Sick of The Fringe.PS The ac

Diagnosis: Sofie Hagen

Sep 15th, 2016 3m 1s

What does it really mean to be an introvert? Sofie Hagen demonstrates it can involve being warm and funny, as well as having a particular fondness for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, as Rebecca Mileham discovers in her diagnosis for The Sic

Edinburgh Fringe: the Chinese opera

Aug 27th, 2016 7m 57s

In this dual-language interview (made possible by a fantastic Mandarin translator) Rebecca speaks to the director of A Terrified Soul - a retelling of Macbeth using traditional Chinese opera techniques.

Edinburgh Fringe - Thursday and Friday

Aug 27th, 2016 9m 11s

Two more days of frenetic show-going see Rebecca queuing for a psychological thiller with Oxford theatre group Not Quite Write - and then talking to the play's creator Kashyap Raja. All too soon it's Friday, and time for the final performance,

Edinburgh Fringe: Wednesday

Aug 25th, 2016 7m 25s

It's Wednesday already in Edinburgh (and presumably in other places as well) and Rebecca sees an epic six shows. This means there is no time to speak to anyone else for the podcast but she gets a lot of steps in her mission to Become Fitter whi

Edinburgh Fringe: Tuesday

Aug 24th, 2016 5m 10s

It's day two of Rebecca's marathon of show-watching in Edinburgh for 'The Sick of the Fringe', a Wellcome Trust project looking at the medical, psychological and mental health themes behind some of the performances. In today's podcast, hear her

Edinburgh in the Shadows

Aug 24th, 2016 4m 37s

Hear Rebecca chat to Max Scratchmann from 'Edinburgh in the Shadows', discussing madness in history and why he and Alec Beattie love to tell a good bloodcurdling story.

Tez Ilyas at the Fringe

Aug 23rd, 2016 1m 15s

Rebecca grabbed a quick interview with Tez Ilyas just after his show Made in Britain. Hear more about her first day at the Fringe at http://posers.org.uk/2016/08/23/fringe_day1/.Pic of Tez from http://www.comedycv.co.uk/tezilyas/index.html

Edinburgh Fringe: Monday

Aug 23rd, 2016 6m 51s

Rebecca's keeping mind and body active in Edinburgh for this year's Festival Fringe. She is one of the writers for 'The Sick of the Fringe', a Wellcome Trust project looking at the medical, psychological and mental health themes and issues behi

Voxpod: Future World exhibition

Jul 31st, 2016 5m 33s

In this voxpod - a podcast edited from live recordings - Rebecca visits the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, to see the Future World exhibition. She finds that her children always know what's going on much better than she does - from the exhibitio

Podcast: who was the real Lewis Carroll?

Jul 18th, 2016 8m 26s

On a warm, breezy Friday evening in Oxford, Rebecca went along to see a new musical exploring the life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – AKA Lewis Carroll, writer of the timeless Alice tales. She came away with a head full of smiles, songs and scan

Posers Podcast 1

Nov 5th, 2015 21m 13s

Was William Smith the world's unluckiest geologist? Join Rebecca Mileham, Richard O Smith and an enormous sandwich to find out. Recorded on location at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History - with thanks to the team there.

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