Podcast Episodes

"I will have a pop group" May 1985 with Elizabeth Allison

Season 2 Episode 5

Summer term at St Helen’s and St Katherine’s, a month so good we recorded it twice! Fellow Hel Kat and boarder Elizabeth “Poggy” Allison compares her…

5 years, 3 months ago

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"Green wellies and Hunter jackets" April 1985 with Jason Beeley

Season 2 Episode 4

April's guest of the Pod, Jason helps Penny unpack the relative merits of a pair of tight pants and a billowing white shirt; the Mr. Darcy myth, Penn…

5 years, 5 months ago

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'Nationals!" March 1985 with Prudence Sanders and Ashlyn Tymms

Season 2 Episode 3

March is packed with competitions; music, lacrosse, even walking is about winning. The St Helen's netball team have reached the National Finals but P…

5 years, 9 months ago

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"One leg each" February 1985 with Fiona Campbell

Season 2 Episode 2

February is all about sharing...sharing private letters, other people’s boyfriends, body parts and we shudder to think how many viruses. Penny, often…

5 years, 11 months ago

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"European prostitutes" January 1985 with Robert Hofmann

Season 2 Episode 1

The excesses of New Year’s Eve have left Penny with swollen tonsils, a swollen ankle and a life-long horror of Vermouth. Spiky hair, Bagpuss and Ouij…

6 years ago

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" The posers and the fatties" December 1984 with Finn Pearson

Season 1 Episode 12

December brings a new selection of activities; ranging from carol singing, delivering Christmas Cards around the village and making nativity scenes t…

6 years, 1 month ago

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"Tracy puked up. Hooray!" November 1984 with Jasmine Pearson and Georgia Pearson

Season 1 Episode 11

The cool November weather doesn't stop Penny's hot passion for boys called Dan but it does render Tracy, the Victorian Evening's soloist, unwell and …

6 years, 3 months ago

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"Ravioli and martini for lunch" October 1984 with Tommaso Pollio

Season 1 Episode 10

Studded belts, fingerless gloves, batwing sleeved jumpers are all the rage as Penny turns 14 and is finally winning at boys as well as netball. PGL D…

6 years, 4 months ago

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"I am flipping well going out with Danny!" September 1984 with Fiona Cooper Smyth

Season 1 Episode 9

Penny, her brother Chris, and a couple of friends head off parent free on a PGL multi-activity holiday in Wales. Some of the more exciting activities…

6 years, 6 months ago

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"Careless Whisper is no.1" August 1984 with Cathy Cooksey

Season 1 Episode 8

Fellow diary writer and 'podcat' Cathy Cooksey puts an Aussie slant on August 1984, when the LA Olympics were in full swing and being 'on the spectru…

6 years, 6 months ago

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