Podcasts

DIY Oral History Interviewing

In this episode we discuss how you could record oral histories with family or friends using low-tech equipment.
We focus on how to engage people and prompts to get people talking. Topics include:
Why record oral history? Talking points to prompt discussion (e.g. family albums, photographs),
ethical considerations, creating a timeline, eliciting a good story, equipment and other technical issues,
editing and sharing the interview. Presented by Julia and Rick Goldsmith of
Catcher Media.

If you are working with groups of older people we have a set of downloadable resources to help you:
https://www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk/older-people/

Using family or archive photographs in oral history

Leading on from our previous podcast about recording your own oral history interviews,
in this programme we focus specifically on using photographs to elicit stories from people.

Julia and Rick, from Catcher Media, talk about their own experience of using photographic archives.
They are joined by Geoff Broadway who is an artist who has been using family photographs in his own project:
Living Memory which was set up to “record, archive and celebrate life stories and personal photography collections from across the Black Country.”

Topics in their free-ranging discussion include:
Photographs providing a rapport and a “way-in” to different community groups, who may otherwise have been hard to engage.
Recurring themes that people discuss in relation to photographs.
How photographs are lovely artefacts which may outlast their digital versions.
Working with photographic archives.
Challenges of collating digital collections.
Ethical issues.
Photographs as a meeting point of memory and storytelling.
Handing on your photographic archive.
Bearing witness and valuing someone else’s story.

Referenced in this interview: Daniel Meadows:
www.photobus.co.uk/daniel-meadows

Rowan talks about a Hereford Museum artefact

In this podcast Rowan, who is a 17-year old visually impaired student at the Royal National College For The Blind (RNC),
chooses an object from the museum’s collection. We won’t spoil the surprise of which object was chosen but suffice to say
it relates to Rowan’s own fascinating family history. She talks to Julia Goldsmith from Catcher Media and museum educator Carolyn Olney.

NB: This is an extract.

A Catcher Media presentation for Herefordshire Council and Herefordshire Museum Service.