Episode 25. Jack and Barbara Putterill: Family Recollections
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Sally, Jenny and Martin Heath, the granddaughters and grandson of the Christian Socialist Father Jack Putterill and his wife Barbara, about their idyllic childhood visits to Thaxted and the tradition of Morris, Mummers plays, music and theatre that they encountered there.
Episode 24. The Thaxted Tradition
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Arthur Burns about the seventy year tradition of Christian Socialism in the rural town of Thaxted, Essex, running from 1910 to 1984..
Episode 17. The William Temple Tradition in Anglican Social Theology
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the Revd Canon Dr Stephen Spencer about his long fascination with the great Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, and Temple’s place within Anglican Social Theology.
Episode 16. Marquis d’Oisy
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Julian Litten about his career as an ecclesastical historian and his book about the Thaxted exotic, the self-styled Amand Edouard Ambroise Marie Lowis Etienne Phillipe d’Sant Andre Tournay, Marquis d’Oisy.
Episode 9. Father Basil Jellicoe and London’s Slum Priests
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Father Paschal Worton, team vicar of St Mary’s, Eversholt Street, NW1 about London’s slum priests, including the housng reformer Father Basil Jellicoe and the Christian Socialist, Father Charles Marson.
Episode 6. Daisy, Countess of Warwick
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with local historian Maggie Stevens about Edward VII’s mistress and socialist convert, ‘Daisy’ Countess of Warwick and the Red Vicars of Essex.
Episode 5: Thaxted Church Life
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Peter and Sybil King about church life in Thaxted under the Red Vicars Conrad Noel and Jack Putterill.
Episode 3. Charles Marson and The Seeds of Love
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with David Sutcliffe about The Keys of Heaven, his biography of Charles Marson, the priest who helped start the Edwardian Folk Revival. through his friendship with Cecil Sharp.
Episode 2. Red Vicars of Thaxted: Conrad Noel and Jack Putterill
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with long-time Thaxted resident, Bruce Munro about Conrad Noel, the Red Vicar of Thaxted and Father Jack Putterill, Conrad’s son in law, and life in post-war Thaxted.
Episode 1. The Transformative Potential of the English Folk Revival
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Dr Katie Palmer Heathman about her 2016 doctoral thesis which places the Christian Socialist priests, Conrad Noel and Charles Marson as progressives within the late 19c/early 20c folk revival.