Best Clive Aslet Amp John Goodall Podcasts (2025)

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Cathedral on Fire: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Notre-Dame 54:08

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Send us a text In 2019 a devastating fire consumed the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, one of the towering symbols of French identity, and it seemed that one of the greatest cultural monuments in Europe had, literally, gone up in smoke. But after only two short years, it has now been restored and John has been to see – and celebrate – the result.…

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The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: A Threaded Tale of Heroes and Conquerors 56:26

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Send us a text An extraordinary cultural loan is about to take place: soon, while its home in France is being improved, the Bayeux Tapestry will be displayed in the British Museum for two years. This will give members of the British public, along with visitors to London from overseas, the chance to get up close to one of the founding documents of E…

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War Memorials Of WW1: The Secret Meaning of The Stone 58:40

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Send us a text In advance of Remembrance Sunday on November 11, Clive has been visiting the Commonwealth War Graves in France. The Imperial War Graves Commission, as it was called when established in 1917, was the brain child of Fabian Ware, a civil servant turned newspaper editor who commanded a Red Cross dressing station during the First World Wa…

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The History of Salisbury Cathedral: How Did They Move a Medieval Marvel? 53:07

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Send us a text Which cathedral is closest to the English heart? Impossible to say but it may be Salisbury, the subject of this week’s Your Places or Mine. On September 28 a special service will be held to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the dedication of the altars at Salisbury’s east end in 1225. To many people, Salisbury Cathedral approaches a…

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Stucco and Style: John Nash’s Regent Street 54:10

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Send us a text The creation of Regent Street under the Prince Regent is a rare instance of a master plan that reshaped London. It linked North and South, starting in the new Regent’s Park and ending at the Prince’s Carlton House on the edge of St James’s Park. Clive and John celebrate this extraordinary achievement, which sprang from the brain of t…

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Golden Hills, Golden Stone: The Story of The Cotswolds 58:39

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Send us a text Today, the Cotswolds are famous around the world, as can be seen from the number of celebrities making their homes here. They are a brand which commands instant recognition. This, however, is a recent phenomenon, and visitors from past centuries – such as the journalist and contrarian William Cobbett – did not take anything like such…

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Sennowe Park: A Gilded Age Mansion 1:00:43

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Send us a text Sennowe Park in North Norfolk is one of the most ebullient country houses built during the swaggering Edwardian decade at the beginning of the 20th century. It reflects the personality of the man for whom it was built, Thomas Cook, grandson of the Thomas Cook who founded the travel business. The latter, born in 1808, had been a Bapti…

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The History of Bath, From Roman to Regency 1:03:00

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Send us a text The Romans arrived at Bath in AD43, calling it Sulis Minerva – a combination of the goddess Minerva with the local deity of Sulis. They loved the hot springs, practically the only ones in the country, which gush from the ground at 40 degrees Celsius. Their bathing complex came to include a huge, vaulted structure, which collapsed at …

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Privacy and Power in The Country House 1:01:40

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Send us a text These days, privacy is high on the agenda. There are huge concerns over data, images, digital identity and personal space, all of which should be kept private. But how was this possible in previous ages when almost all of life took place in the presence of other people. This was as much the case for the social elite as it was for ord…

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Hot History: The Great Fire of Northampton 1675 1:00:24

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Send us a text Everyone has heard about the Great Fire of London – but what about the Great Fire of Northampton…or Marlborough…or Blandford Forum? Fire has frequently wrought destruction on towns, cities and country houses, and this was particularly the case in the 17th century. Clive and John discuss why this should have been—what caused the fires…

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Charles III's Love Affair With Romania 54:02

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Send us a text The then Prince of Wales first came to Transylvania in the late 1990s on an official visit. It’s the only time he’s come on business. He fell so much under the spell of the place that he bought a house here, in one of the wooden villages, settled, many centuries ago, by Saxons from Germany. Then he acquired another property, which he…

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Great British Builders: Lutyens, Wren and The City of London (LIVE at The Ned's Club) 1:10:50

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Send us a text For the first time in the history of this podcast, Your Places or Mine has gone on location. John and Clive have been invited to The Ned's Club, the amazing complex of hospitality venues, including restaurants, hotel and private members’ club, which occupies the former head office of the Midland Bank in the City of London. This provi…

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Sovereignty in Stone: The Kings of Windsor Castle 50:18

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Send us a text Windsor Castle has been imbued with symbolism since William the Conqueror founded it after the invasion of 1066. He took the name of Windsor from an existing Anglo-Saxon palace which stood on a different spot. On a bluff overlooking the Thames, Windsor Castle continues to play a central role in Britain’s national identity, being a gr…

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12 Crosses That Remember a Queen (with History Alice) 52:15

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Send us a text This week YPOMPOD is joined by Alice Loxton — History Alice to her many followers — to discuss the extraordinary series of crosses that King Edward I built in memory of his queen, Eleanor of Castile in the 1290s. Eleanor died in Lincolnshire. Her body was then carried back to London for burial, and at every place that the cortège sto…

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The Dollar Princesses Who Revolutionised The British Country House 1:01:41

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Send us a text The American girl was a phenomenon, charming, sporty, better educated than her European counterpart. talk on a wide range of subjects. Around sixty American girls became peeresses at the turn of the 20th century. ‘We are the dollar princesses,’ ran a popular song. Crossing the Atlantic was no longer as perilous as it had been in earl…

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Ramsgate: The Marseille Of The South East 59:01

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Send us a text In this summer episode of ypompod, we got to the seaside – to Ramsgate, beloved of Queen Victoria and now home to the biggest Wetherspoon’s (in an elegant neo-Greek building called the Royal Pavilion of 1913) on the face of the planet. Five miles to the east of Ramsgate, connected by a continuous yellow carpet of sand, lies Margate, …

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Ewelme: A Village And Its Vanished Medieval Palace 1:01:35

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Send us a text Where is Ewelme Palace? It was one of the most splendid houses in the country when it was built in the 15th century but nothing of it now remains. There are, however, some of the ancillary buildings and monuments that went with a great medieval estate. Its chatelaine Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, is remembered by one of the most beautif…

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National Gallery: The Sainsbury Wing And A New Chapter 56:58

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Send us a text The National Gallery, now 200 years old, occupies one of the most famous buildings in London, on the north side of Trafalgar Square. This Greek Revival masterpiece by William Wilkins was designed to take account of the view of St Martin in the Fields from Pall Mall—so unusually it was conceived as having been seen from the side. Cliv…

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Mediterranean Caprice In Snowdonia: The Story of Portmeirion 54:53

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Send us a text In this episode, Clive and John discuss the holiday village of Portmeirion, an improbable, festive vision of the Mediterranean built on a wooded peninsula of Snowdonia, whose centenary falls this year. Portmeirion was the creation of the architect and card-carrying Welshman Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who died at the age of 94 in 1978…

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Castle Howard: Vanbrugh's Palace Redisplayed 51:23

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Send us a text Castle Howard in Yorkshire is one of a select group of country houses which must be seen as complete works of art. Visitors to the great domed palace, set in the gentle landscape of the Howardian Hills north-east of York, may be bowled over by the panache of the architecture, or the beauty of the woods; by the dazzling quality of the…

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Glyndebourne: The House That Gave Birth To The Opera Festival 49:39

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Send us a text Picnic hampers, black tie, world-class opera — it’s the season for Glyndebourne, the festival that sired the happy, uniquely British phenomenon of country house opera. This week Clive and John discuss the house from which it all began (still central to the experience) as well as the headstrong, eccentric but visionary John Christie, …

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The Tower of London: The Most Notorious Castle In England 1:04:03

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Send us a text The Tower of London is one of the great sights of the capital, a place that is as steeped in history as it has sometimes been, through the numerous executions it has witnessed, drenched in blood. In this week’s episode of Your Places or Mine, Dr John Goodall, Britain’s foremost historian of castle architecture, discusses this extraor…

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Lutyens And Lady Emily: A Marriage Of Opposites 56:30

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Send us a text In his mid 20s, Lutyens fell passionately in love with Lady Emily Lytton, daughter of the Earl Lytton, a diplomat and Viceroy of India who had really wanted to be a poet. He pursued her ardently, writing letters that were romantic, delightful and often funny. Beating down opposition from Lady Emily’s family, they got marriage in 1897…

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Lutyens And Hudson: Huddy And Ned 59:40

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Send us a text Sir Edwin (Ned) Lutyens’s old friend Edward Hudson founded Country Life in 1897. A London printer, he was not a countryman, but commissioned three country houses as well as the Country Life office in Covent Garden. Convinced of Lutyens’s genius, he also ‘boomed’ him through the magazine and lost no opportunity to promote his career. …

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Lutyens And Gertrude Jekyll: Home and Garden 57:59

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Send us a text The first of a series on the early-20th-century architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, this episode examines the relationship between the young Ned — gangly, witty, shy — and the craftswoman turned gardener Gertrude Jekyll, his senior by 25 years. With her deep instinct for crafts and passionate attachment to Surrey, she shaped the boyish arch…

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The Majesty and Splendour Of Westminster Hall 53:39

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Send us a text Clive and John discuss one of the most spectacular medieval buildings in Britain, Westminster Hall. Originally built by William the Conqueror’s heir, the voracious William Rufus, it was a structure of immense ambition — said to be the biggest hall of its kind north of the Alps. In the 14th-century, this huge space was reimagined as a…

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King Charles III's Royal Passion For Architecture 1:03:38

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Send us a text One of the greatest of HM the King’s many enthusiasms is architecture. He made his first pronouncements on the subject in 1984 with the famous ‘Carbuncle’ speech and has been championing the causes of tradition, community, Classicism and Transylvania ever since. After 40 years it is time to take stock of his achievement, seen most ob…

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Pimlico: Mr Cubitt's District 1:03:13

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Send us a text In this first episode of Your Places or Mine, Clive and John are in London’s Pimlico, exploring the dynamic personality of the great Victorian builder Thomas Cubitt and the area’s struggle to become fashionable. The idea of Your Places or Mine is to replicate the fun that Clive and John have on their visits to old sites, towns and bu…

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Cathedral on Fire: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Notre-Dame 54:08

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The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: A Threaded Tale of Heroes and Conquerors 56:26

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War Memorials Of WW1: The Secret Meaning of The Stone 58:40

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The History of Salisbury Cathedral: How Did They Move a Medieval Marvel? 53:07

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Stucco and Style: John Nash’s Regent Street 54:10

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Golden Hills, Golden Stone: The Story of The Cotswolds 58:39

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Sennowe Park: A Gilded Age Mansion 1:00:43

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The History of Bath, From Roman to Regency 1:03:00

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Privacy and Power in The Country House 1:01:40

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Hot History: The Great Fire of Northampton 1675 1:00:24

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Charles III's Love Affair With Romania 54:02

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Great British Builders: Lutyens, Wren and The City of London (LIVE at The Ned's Club) 1:10:50

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Sovereignty in Stone: The Kings of Windsor Castle 50:18

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12 Crosses That Remember a Queen (with History Alice) 52:15

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The Dollar Princesses Who Revolutionised The British Country House 1:01:41

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Ramsgate: The Marseille Of The South East 59:01

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Ewelme: A Village And Its Vanished Medieval Palace 1:01:35

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National Gallery: The Sainsbury Wing And A New Chapter 56:58

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Mediterranean Caprice In Snowdonia: The Story of Portmeirion 54:53

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Castle Howard: Vanbrugh's Palace Redisplayed 51:23

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Glyndebourne: The House That Gave Birth To The Opera Festival 49:39

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The Tower of London: The Most Notorious Castle In England 1:04:03

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Lutyens And Lady Emily: A Marriage Of Opposites 56:30

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Lutyens And Hudson: Huddy And Ned 59:40

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Lutyens And Gertrude Jekyll: Home and Garden 57:59

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The Majesty and Splendour Of Westminster Hall 53:39

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King Charles III's Royal Passion For Architecture 1:03:38

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Pimlico: Mr Cubitt's District 1:03:13