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On The Hill
by Sherezade Garcia Rangel
On The Hill is a podcast about cemeteries. Each season tells the story of one cemetery and each episode tells the true story of someone buried there. We reassemble their lives and examine what this tells us about our human history and experience. We respond to them with original creative writing. Learn more at weareonthehill.podbean.com.
Episodes
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S01 Episode 12: Jacques Goudstikker the Famous Jewish Art Dealer with Sherezade Garcia Rangel (Part II)
In the second part of this season finale, Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his family secure passage on the S.S. Bodegraven alongside 258 refugees, some of which form part of the last Kindertransport to leave Europe and eventually land in the UK. Charlène von Sayer discusses the...
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S01 Episode 12: Jacques Goudstikker the Famous Jewish Art Dealer with Sherezade Garcia Rangel (Part I)
On the 14th of May 1940 Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his family are trying to escape the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands by sea on the cargo ship S.S. Bodegraven. Jacques is carrying an inventory of the paintings and artwork from the legendary Goudstikker Collection. In…
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S01 Episode 11: Roy Coote and Boxing with Adrian Markle
In the 1920s and 1930s the town of Penryn, Conrwall, was renowned for its boxing scene. A young local boy, Roy Coote, pursued his interest in the sport to help support his family. He would go on to fight on over 70 contests and secure a life as a tugboat skipper and competitive sailor for his...
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S01 Episode 10: Maritime Painter Charles Napier Hemy RA with Sarah Cave
On May 1841 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Charles Napier Hemy is born. He would spend his early life trying to decide if his calling was in the church, at sea or in the service of art. By the time that he commits to painting, the British School was exploring nature and its evocative power, and gaining...
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S01 Episode 09: George Kerswell Sheaff and the HMS Ganges with Amy Lilwall
On November 1899, a man jumps off a yacht to save someone who has fallen into the water. His name was George Kerswell Sheaff, from Portwrinkle, Cornwall, and he had led a quiet, devout life with a long career in the navy. The last ship his served in was the HMS Ganges, which spent decades in…
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S01 Episode 08: Miśko Molnár the First Czechoslovak Sailor in Poland with Sherezade Garcia Rangel
On September 1933, the legendary Polish frigate Dar Pomorza left Gdynia on its winter trip to check on Polish colonies with shores on the Atlantic. All but one of its 56 cadets would return home, though. Miśko Molnár, the first Czechoslovak sailor in Poland, died before the end of the trip. What...
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S01 Episode 07: William Bilkie the last mail coach guard with Jennifer Young
In the mid-1850s, William Stevens Bilkie was working as a mail coach guard from Falmouth to Plymouth. The arrival of the train to Cornwall in 1859 would bring an end to his job, but William continued to reinvent himself and to actively participate in Falmouth. A renown storyteller and...
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S01 Episode 06: Countess Ellen Odette Cuffe or 'The Weeping Widow' and Amy Lilwall
Legend has it that Irish Jewish Countess Ellen Odette Cuffe requested that her hand was joined with her husband’s when she was buried in Falmouth Cemetery in 1933. Is there truth in the myth? What about the woman herself, who commissioned this cemetery’s most unique gravestone? Did she get…
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S01 Episode 05: Henry Philip Creese and the Titanic with A J Dalton
On April 10 1912, the Titanic sailed from Southampton. A few Cornish passengers were on board, including deck engineer Henry Philip Creese, memorialised in Falmouth Cemetery. How were the news of the Titanic delivered? What can we learn about the most famous maritime disaster in the world? And…
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S01 Episode 04: Artist Winifred Freeman with Anna Kiernan and Glyn Winchester
In 1866 Winifred Freeman is born into a family of Lamorna Granite Merchants. She would go on to challenge conventions and earn her living as a painter. We talk to Glyn Winchester from the Falmouth Art Gallery to learn more about this artist. Anna Kiernan shares poems inspired by the cemetery and…
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S01 Episode 03: Chung Shin and WWI with Sherezade Garcia Rangel
In 1917, Cabin Boy Chung Shin is on a trip from Singapore to Portishead when a U-boat attacks the S.S. Sequoya. It is the middle of World War I and the UK, overwhelmed by the great losses of its service men and women, must find a way to honour them. Running out of space again, the Falmouth…
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S01 Episode 02: Mary Monk with Amy Lilwall
After a short illness for which she sought healing at a spa in Falmouth, Mary Monk passed away and was buried in the Falmouth Cemetery. She was the first female sanitary inspector and health visitor in Portsmouth. What can we learn from her story about the UK’s efforts to reduce child mortality…
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S01 Episode 01: Sir John Gay Newton Alleyne with A J Dalton
In the Falmouth Cemetery, a family grave holds Sir John Gay Newton Alleyne, 3rd Baronet of Four Hills, Barbados. The Alleyne family's sugar plantation in Barbados was maintained by the unpaid labour of African slaves. What does his story tell us about the British Empire? In the middle of the 19th...
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On The Hill is a new podcast which brings you stories about Cornish cemeteries and those buried there. Each episode reassembles the life of someone departed and the history of the time, and shares original creative writing inspired by them.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
On The Hill is a podcast about cemeteries. Each season tells the story of one cemetery and each episode tells the true story of someone buried there. We reassemble their lives and examine what this tells us about our human history and experience. We respond to them with original creative writing. Learn more at weareonthehill.podbean.com.
HOSTED BY
Sherezade Garcia Rangel
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On The Hill currently has 14 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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On The Hill is a podcast about cemeteries. Each season tells the story of one cemetery and each episode tells the true story of someone buried there. We reassemble their lives and examine what this tells us about our human history and experience. We respond to them with original creative writing....
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On The Hill is created and hosted by Sherezade Garcia Rangel.
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