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Your Places or MineA Royal Romanian Affair: Why Charles III Treasures TransylvaniaSend us a textThe 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 has turned into a comfortable, folksy lodge. He makes a private visit every year, if he can. Clive and John discuss King Charles III and his passion for this...2025-08-0754 min

Your Places or MineGreat British Builders: Lutyens, Wren and The City of London (LIVE at The Ned's Club)Send us a textFor 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 provides the podcast with an opportunity to examine Britain’s commercial centre as it evolved between the Wars. Nearly every major financial institution was being rebuilt in the 1920s, not least the Bank of England itself. Structur...2025-07-311h 10

Your Places or MineSovereignty in Stone: The Kings of Windsor CastleSend 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 great inheritance from the Middle Ages, which no one generation could have the resources or imagination to build. It has always been there, was always important, it seems to transcend time. Both a formidable stronghold and a sumptuous palace...2025-07-2450 min

Your Places or Mine12 Crosses That Remember a Queen (with History Alice)Send us a textThis 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 stopped a beautiful cross was erected. The work of the royal masons, these crosses are of astonishing quality even though some stand in what are now modest situations. The best-preserved is at Geddin...2025-07-1752 min

Your Places or MineTHE DOLLAR PRINCESSES WHO REVOLUTIONISED THE BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSESend us a textThe 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 earlier days. Huge fortunate had been made during the expansion of the United States after the Civil War. From the 1870s, aristocrats began to experience a decline in the income from their landed estates, due to a prolon...2025-07-101h 01

Your Places or MineRAMSGATE: THE MARSEILLE OF THE SOUTH EASTSend us a textIn 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, which developed as one of Britain’s first seaside resorts in the mid eighteenth century. Ramsgate did not get into its stride until after the Napoleonic Wars, which ended in 1815 (a street is...2025-07-0359 min

Your Places or MineEWELME: A VILLAGE AND ITS VANISHED MEDIEVAL PALACESend us a textWhere 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 beautiful tombs in the country. A granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, she became a great heiress when her first husband, the Earl of Salisbury, was killed by a cannonball while fighting in France. Her s...2025-06-261h 01

Your Places or MineNATIONAL GALLERY: THE SAINSBURY WING AND A NEW CHAPTERSend us a textThe 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. Clive and John discuss both Wilkins’s design and the Sainsbury Wing, added by Venturi, Scott Brown in the 1980s. This extension followed the controversy of the Prince of Wales’s speech at the RIBA at Hampto...2025-06-1956 min

Your Places or MineMEDITERRANEAN CAPRICE IN SNOWDONIA: THE STORY OF PORTMEIRIONSend us a textIn 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. Clough, as everyone called him, was a conspicuous figure. Wearing an attention-seeking combo of tweed breeches and long yellow socks, he took a prominent role in the debates that raged over conservation, town-planning and the countryside. With a natural flair f...2025-06-1254 min

Your Places or MineCASTLE HOWARD: VANBRUGH'S PALACE REDISPLAYEDSend us a textCastle 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 pictures and furniture, or the charm of the porcelain. Together they show why the English country house has so often been regarded as be a beacon of civilization and the arts of...2025-06-0551 min

Your Places or MineGLYNDEBOURNE: THE HOUSE THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE OPERA FESTIVALSend us a textPicnic 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, founder of the festival in the 1930s. They reveal a tale of love, passion (for music), setbacks, epic dreams and triumph… somebody should write an opera about it.2025-05-2949 min

Your Places or MineTHE TOWER OF LONDON: THE MOST NOTORIOUS CASTLE IN ENGLANDSend us a textThe 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 extraordinary fortification-cum-palace with Professor Clive Aslet, describing both its architectural features and the uses that it has served through the centuries. First built by William the Conqueror within an angle of London’s Roman wa...2025-05-221h 04

Your Places or MineLUTYENS AND LADY EMILY: A MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITESSend us a textIn 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 but were an unlikely couple. She hated bearing children and domesticity. He was often away from home, on an endless round of visits to clients, country houses and building sites. Frustrated and feeling neglected, Emily found spiritu...2025-05-1556 min

Your Places or MineLUTYENS AND HUDSON: HUDDY AND NEDSend us a textSir 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.Nobody could be better placed to discuss this extraordinary creative partnership than Clive and John, both of whom are closely associated with the magazine that is Hudson’s legacy.Although not outwardly charismatic, Huddy — as L...2025-05-0859 min

Immerse Yourself In The Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Experience!King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture by Clive AsletPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/331to listen full audiobooks. Title: King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture Series: Triglyph People, Book 2 Author: Clive Aslet Narrator: Clive Aslet Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins Release date: 05-06-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Architecture Publisher's Summary: King Charles III’s affection for architecture is wellknown, but the extent of his engagement has never been fully presented to the public. This is the first book to draw together the many threads, from the "carbuncle" speech, made at Hampton Court in 1984, until his accession to the throne. He has created model settlements such as...2025-05-065h 54

Your Places or MineLUTYENS AND GERTRUDE JEKYLL: HOME AND GARDENSend us a textThe 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 architect and introduced him to many of his best early clients. She describes the building of Munstead Wood, the house outside Godalming which he designed for her, in her book Home and Garden.2025-05-0157 min

Your Places or MineTHE MAJESTY AND SPLENDOUR OF WESTMINSTER HALLSend us a textClive 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 statement of royal majesty by art-loving Richard ll; carved angels looked down on the divinely appointed king from the hammer beam roof. Ironically, this would be where Charles I was tried and condemned to death in 1649. At...2025-04-2453 min

Your Places or MineKING CHARLES III'S ROYAL PASSION FOR ARCHITECTURESend us a textOne 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 obviously in the model town extensions (Poundbury outside Dorchester, Nansledan outside Newquay) that are the Duchy of Cornwall’s visionary answer to the housing crisis, but also at Dumfries House, which he rescued from break up. Thanks to the training pr...2025-04-171h 03

Your Places or MineMR CUBITT'S DISTRICTSend us a textIn 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 buildings around the country, which have often resulted in entertaining discussions in the car home — part historical knowledge, part banter. We hope you enjoy it! 2025-04-101h 03

Unofficial Book Club PodcastIf I Read a Book I Wont See the Movie with Katherine KovacicIn this episode author Katherine Kovacic joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books! Books Discussed in this Episode: Ant and Bee and the Doctor By Angela Banner Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster No...2025-02-2041 min

A is for Architecture PodcastClive Aslet: Edwin Lutyens - Architect for All Seasons.In A is for Architecture’s 134th episode, the writer, publisher, former editor of Country Life and visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, Clive Aslet, discusses his book, Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? (Triglyph Books 2024) which describes the life, work and enduring importance of Edwin Lutyens, including the impact of Gertude Jekyll on his design imagination and Lutyens’ pivotal role in both illustrating the British imperial project, and memorializing it’s fallen. Lutyens (1869–1944) was a renowned British architect celebrated for his enormous body of work which straddled the Victorian and early modern period, and incorp...2024-12-041h 01

Absorb A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Sensational.Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? by Clive AsletPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/359to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? Series: Triglyph People, Book 1 Author: Clive Aslet Narrator: Clive Aslet Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins Release date: 07-22-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Architecture Publisher's Summary: Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's...2024-07-227h 02

Indulge In: This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook For Busy Professionals.Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? by Clive AsletPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/359to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? Series: Triglyph People, Book 1 Author: Clive Aslet Narrator: Clive Aslet Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins Release date: 07-22-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Architecture Publisher's Summary: Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's...2024-07-227h 02

Stolpe Stories43. Thomas H. Mawson and the art of gardening with Clive AsletThomas H. Mawson var en brittisk trädgårdsarkitekt och en av de mest inflytelserika rösterna inom det tidiga 1900-talets trädgårdsrörelse. Hans bok “The Art and Craft of Garden Making” kom ut i flera upplagor och blev nästan som en bibel för den tidens trädgårdsentusiaster. I det här avsnittet intervjuas konsthistorikern Clive Aslet på länk från England om varför vi fortsätter att fascineras av Mawson och hans tankar om trädgårdsdesign.Du finner The art and craft och garden making och Bokförlaget Stolpes övriga u...2023-03-2424 min

Stolpe Stories39. Naturaliesamlandet i historien med Clive AsletMänniskan har alltid varit fascinerad av naturen. Men varför började man samla på stenar, snäckskal och pressade växter? Och vem var det som hade råd att beställa rariteter från andra sidan jordklotet till sin samling? I det här avsnittet intervjuas författaren Clive Aslet om naturaliesamlandets spännande historia.Du finner Naturaliesamlandet i historien och Bokförlaget Stolpes övriga utgivning hos Bokus.se, dessutom till 20 procents rabatt med koden STOLPE20.Foto: Universitetsbiblioteket, Lunds universitet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...2022-12-0932 min

Talking History with Patrick GeogheganBest of March Books - Part OneJoin Patrick for the best of Irish and International history publications for March 2022. Books covered on the show include: 'The Last Witches of England' with John Callow, 'The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944' with Prit Buttar, 'Kenmare: History and Survival' with Colum Kenny, 'The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People' with Clive Aslet and 'Mozart in Motion' with Patrick Mackie.2022-03-1344 min

Absorb The Full Audiobook That Keeps Story Seekers Hooked.The Story of the Country House by Clive AsletPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/43to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of the Country House Author: Clive Aslet Narrator: Simon Vance Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins Release date: 11-30-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 21 ratings Genres: Architecture Publisher's Summary: The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain...2021-11-308h 16 $Benjamin\'s Britain$ Benjamin's Britain17: The Roman BathsOur season finale! We finish off our season with some 'on location' clips from Ben's trip to visit Nicky in Bath, a city with a landmark so good they named itself after it. After a few extra bonus clips from the series Ben and Nicky wrap up by discussing the four landmarks in Bath that Clive Aslet put in his book "Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History". And it an episode wouldn't be complete without a guests alternative pick, this time of the swimming pool variety.You can now buy us a...2021-08-1330 min

The EI PodcastEI Weekly Listen – Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country houseAmid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline - but it was too early to write it off. Read by Leighton Pugh. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/upstairs-downstairs-demolished-the-changing-fate-of-the-english-country-house/ Credit: The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images 2021-05-2019 min

The New Criterion PodcastsJames Panero, Benjamin Riley & Andrew L. Shea discuss the 2020 art issue and look ahead to 2021James Panero, Benjamin Riley & Andrew L. Shea discuss the 2020 art issue and look ahead to 2021. Read “Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush,” by Andrew L. Shea: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/albert-pinkham-ryder-isolato-of-the-brush Read Benjamin Riley’s interview with Clive Aslet & Dylan Thomas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/an-interview-with-clive-aslet-dylan-thomas Read “Unmaking the met,” by James Panero: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/unmaking-the-met 2020-12-1817 min

The AD AestheteBritish Country Homes and the Stories They TellHistorian Clive Aslet and photographer Dylan Thomas have captured a dozen romantic British country homes in their forthcoming book, Old Homes, New Life (Triglyph, July 2020), exploring in great detail the stories behind each property. Join me as they share how the younger generations are making their mark on these estates, from structural improvements to clever onsite businesses that are designed to keep these family homes preserved and productive for generations to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 2020-06-0237 min

The Penguin Podcast: The ArchiveThe Penguin Podcast: War and Writing feat. Patrick Hennessey, Harry Sidebottom & Clive AsletIn today's podcast Patrick Hennessey, an ex-Grenadier Guards, takes over to talk about his experiences of being a soldier, which was the influence behind his two books The Junior Officers' Reading Club and KANDAK, and discusses the appeal of writing and reading about war. Also featured in this podcast is A. L. Berridge talking about the Crimean War, which she used as the backdrop in her book Into the Valley of Death. She is followed by a reading from Crusade, read by the author Stewart Binns before he discusses writing about the Crusades. Next, Harry Sidebottom answers questions on his...2012-11-131h 00

Excess BaggageVillages, Ordnance Survey and FinlandJohn McCarthy talks to journalist Clive Aslet about the nature of British villages, how they've changed and whether they have become places to visit rather than to live and work in. He tells John some of the stories associated with them and where to find the most attractive villages in the country. The academic Rachel Hewitt looks at the landscape as it has been mapped by the Ordnance Survey, the history of the organisation and it's impact on our appetite for rambling and hiking. Rural Finland offers peace and quiet which is just to the businessman John Murolo's taste...2010-10-2328 min