More Tea, Vicar?
Museum Secrets
English - January 12, 2021 01:00 - 12 minutes - 8.64 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsArts History museum oxford funny art ashmolean uplifting curators history behind the scenes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jim Harris, Andrew W Mellon Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean, tells us the story of a silver teapot hiding a rude joke underneath it. Please be advised in advance that this episode contains an expletive.
Silver Teapot – View it here
If you want to take a closer look at the silver teapot discussed in this episode, you can view it at the link above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets
Producer: Lucie Dawkins
Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Jim Harris
About Museum Secrets: The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Join us every weekday for 3 weeks, from 28 December onwards, for a daily dose of cheer.