The Souvenir Shop: Recent Episodes
Matthew Diamond
Funny, sad, enthralling and barely believable true stories.
Written and read by Matthew Diamond.
Email me at souvenirshoppod@gmail.com
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The History of British Cinema Podcast. Coming Soon!
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Featuring Believe it or Not; The Tiles; The Walk; The Gong; The Battle of Cable Street.
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Compilation episode: The Quiz Night; The Sketch; The Magazine; Tomorrow I Shall Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; The Floppy Disk Drive.
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Featuring Ramadhin and Valentine; Life of an Actor'The Masterpiece; The Pebble and Stranded
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Featuring Bambi; Beryl; Ghosts to Houseplants; The Invitation; The 78
The Invitation: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMK2iOsJy5U/
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Compilation of episodes 16 to 20, written and read by Matthew Diamond. Featuring The 45; The Model; The Sixth Floor; Comedy; The Music Box.
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Compilation episode featuring: Generations, The Album, The Isle of Wight, The Salami, Captain Ginjah
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Compilation Episode featuring The Portrait, The Recipes, The Neighbours, Zayde Moishe, and The Five O'Clock Club.
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A compilation of episodes one to five.
This compilation contains A Stranger; John Major: My Part In His Downfall; Scandal; The Writer; The Crown.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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My family tree throws up some surprises and unearths some horrors.
The Bokser Family: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxTgRN1rNf2/
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A genuine close encounter with the paranormal. Or not.
New Faces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Xvyj5KHR4&t=232s
A visit to a synagogue leads to a wonderful day.
My father, the raw recruit: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwvlu6ys8BT/
The Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBvZpXDyaU4
How a foreign-sounding name affects your job prospects: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/failed-applications-nearly-changed-name-get-job-1617614
About Basil Henriques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Henriques
The Oxford and St George's Club and Settlement: https://www.jewisheastend.com/settlement.html
A classic album, performed live, puts my life back on the rails.
Pet Sounds Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1kb1MWVDQI
Pets Sounds - The Original Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_yhTyae08
Two showbiz careers are scuppered by a sharp elbowed wannabe.
Dry Transfers. And exhaustive website containing all the pictorial sets by Letraset and others.:https://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_a/chronology.shtml#k_series_anchor
Cream Sing 'A Mother's Lament' AKA 'Your Baby Has Gone Down The Plughole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIg61FTi5s
The non-cancellation of Fred Astaire.
Bill Robinson, the world's greatest tap dancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkkGjDpa8E
Bill Robinson stars in Stormy Weather (with Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Fats Waller and more). Watch it!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y33LD_UQWVc
Talking with my grandma about Ibsen.
Grandma as a teenager: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvC2m3sshs4/
Grandma again at her 90th birthday party December 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRju7Z8i414/
How Antifa is not a recent phenomenon, and why it is needed. This podcast features a special guest author.
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My grandfather's long journey from homeless hostel to the palace.
Grandpa and family outside Buckingham Palace after he received his OBE: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjvUhDivfa/
An evening with the greatest comedian of all time.
Max Wall as Professor Wallofski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GzOU6Gp-qc&t=551s
Max Wall Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqtSfzhj0o
My time at the epicentre of Swinging London, an encounter with a screen goddess, and my favourite heirloom.
One of the Walter Crane ceramic tiles: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct7O80qs1Sf/
My Uncle Bernie and Auntie Rose at Portobello Road: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct7OXjxsSYD/
In which we learn of my aunt's ordeal at the hands of US Homeland Security.
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In which a dying Apple Mac inadvertently enables a change of career.
How to build a PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXaLc9AYIcg
What goes into the making of a genuine cult film?
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVBPNfKfgNo&t=777s
An acting debut at The Young Vic, courtesy of The Puffin Club, provides respite from an unhappy childhood.
My theatrical debut: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsyxIKQMLv2/
The Puffin Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Csyxi-VM55Z/
A career as a comedy writer begins slightly prematurely..
The BBC Radio 4 Week Ending Theme - Party Fears Two by The Associates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybfTKNl2NM
A quiz night triumph ends with a bizarre celebrity encounter.
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Some pieces of antique pottery, an encounter in a Cuban museum, and suffering under the yoke of an oppressive, secretive regime.
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A lump of painted rock, a theatrical adventure, and how I am responsible for the career of Britain's greatest playwright!
The Z Rock; https://www.instagram.com/p/CrqtU7yMRb2/
Z Theatre Company 1980: https://www.instagram.com/p/Crqttx-M6Cq/
A ceramic hedgehog, failure, and fleeting success.
The Hedgehog: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrYytCyM0vC/
A snuff box a West End hit, a journey Up North, and Tom & Jerry.
Life of an Actor - The Book: https://archive.org/details/lifeofactor0000pier
The Life of an Actor snuff box: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHD-_qMyBO/
The original Life of an Actor Illustration from 1825: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHECsqMPDW/
Listen to Lord Beginner's Victory Test Match (Cricket Lovely Cricket) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpeUTnTVS0&t=24s
Ronald Frankau, The Trade Union Congress, and a late-night phone call.
Ronald Frankau sings Shakespeare Was A Playboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOg3SWBA1hg&t=184s
The pursuit of knowledge through reading twelve volumes of an illustrated encyclopaedia for children.
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The story of Beryl, actor, comedian, junior civil servant, and scourge of the post-war establishment.
The group photo in Paris can be seen at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjvv-7CEIi/
The Evening Standard article is at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsoIW4MWiF/
The LOW cartoon is at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsoPuss7x2/
To see both University Challenge teams in action go to https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbBZA9sFxv/
The Young Ones on University Challenge a few years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysG96dUtGh4
A journey to Vienna, encountering the fall-out from Harry Lime along the way.
The Harry Lime Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEsWi88Qv0
The Draylon Underground on The Funny Farm, August 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Clmpfdy0SE
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Watch the World In Action documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTRntQUhipc&t=60s
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Listen to the single and you'll see what I mean!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkjk4jMchY
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Winkles and Champaigne BBC TV 1948: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnuj1jgsywA/
Dad as Captain Ginjah: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnuj4Lfstet/
Katz's Deli, 205 East Houston Street: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnb9Yu9MamV/
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See the album cover at https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKMpX3sZt-/
Hear our contribution at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSNa9rXLBA&t=14s
Watch us on Cabaret at the Jongleurs at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0W65bRsFWw&t=1720s
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm46KnLsNeU/
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You can see the two photos at https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQA3ZfJ_Zh/
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The Five O'Clock Club Badge: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl01KBYsCY7/
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The Palaseum Cinema on Commercial Road shortly before demolition.https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl56aITsv3j/
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Linscott Road https://www.instagram.com/p/CltmoETMnYK/
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You can see the recipes at https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMxhmmpstI/
Let me know if you can decode them!
You can see the portrait here: https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQg1gVM8ow/
And as for the politician...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7uLfBjkrE0
How Winston Churchill's birthday gave me sore hands.
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A sliding doors moment changes the course of entertainment history.
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John Profumo, Christine Keeler, and Me
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How a fateful phone call helped end a government.
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In which we learn how my family went from being Ukrainian to British.
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What makes us us? In this series of stories, some funny and some sad I try to find out.
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