The Quilt

Dec 09 2024 6 ep. 43 mins 18
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The Quilt: Living memories of queer Britain & Northern Ireland 

An audio exhibition open to anyone, anywhere, at any time of day, produced and hosted by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith. 

Born from a collaboration between the producers of the award-winning podcast The Log Books and the UK’s first and only LGBTQ+ museum Queer Britain, The Quilt challenges who and what makes queer history. 

The series takes the listener on a journey across the UK, collecting queer memories, from queer people. The Quilt weaves together all these stories and histories, into a beautiful documentary patchwork series. 

The Quilt is an audio archive for the future.

Episode transcripts available here.

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5 | The Community

Dec 09 2024 48 mins  
People have moved to The Midlands from all over the world — so how has this migration shaped the region’s queer community?In this episode, Adam meets Ranjit Khutan who tells the story of his parents moving to England from India, and how they raised him with a community spirit. This led him to run the first support group for South Asian men who have sex with men in Birmingham in

4 | The Pride

Dec 02 2024 46 mins  
If the world has made it hard for your community to keep going, how do you still find the pride?In this episode, Tash travels to the northeast of England, to the old mining town of Stanley in County Durham. They hear about the history of mining and shipbuilding, and what the wake of those industries has meant for queer people living there. There are stories from Sharon McIlvaney, w

3 | The Missing

Nov 25 2024 65 mins  
Scottish history is laden with the sense of loss, from the Highland clearances to... Glasgow’s lesbian bars that closed down in the 1990s!In this episode, Adam takes a tour of those voided queer spaces with one of their old disco dykes, Natalie Wilson. He also hears from archivist Mel Reeve about the missing queer and bisexual elders from our collective past, and Rob Crawford, wh

2 | The Faith

Nov 18 2024 44 mins  
The northwest of England is famous for progressive thinking, from women’s liberation to power for the working classes. In this episode, Tash meets some of the folks who are bringing this forward-thinking towards faith and spirituality. From Adelaide Harris and the pioneering church of St James and Emmanuel in Didsbury Village, to Saha (Surabhi Kandaswamy), a trans woman who

1 | The Unravelling

Nov 11 2024 52 mins  
The city of Norwich, in East Anglia, has a history of welcoming strangers and people who are a bit different.In this episode, Adam meets some of Norfolk’s wonderful misfits. From Serena James, an older trans woman who discovered a remarkable photograph from the 1960s, to Steve Peck, who bought a shirt 40 years ago on a memorable holiday. Finally there’s Beau Brannick and Alice

Introducing... The Quilt

Nov 04 2024 5 mins  
From the producers of the award-winning podcast The Log Books, The Quilt is a new queer history podcast featuring untold stories that are rooted all around the UK.In this short intro episode, hosts Tash Walker and Adam Zmith head back into the studio to plan the new series. We’ve partnered with Queer Britain, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum, to travel around the UK collecting intr