• Q&A Bonus Episode (Season 5, + Janie's story returning soon)
    Dec 9 2023

    Season 5, bonus episode. Ingrid answers listeners' questions, talks about the future of My Love Letter Time Machine, and introduces her Grandfather Owen's memoirs, (who was a nurse in the Royal Navy during WW2). Ingrid will come back with Janie’s story in the Spring in a new season of the podcast, and then lead into story of her family getting through the first world war, the depression, the second world war and out the other side, as well as taking a look at history through the eyes of a very ordinary working class family in Sheffield.

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    28 Min.
  • ...till death do us part.
    Dec 2 2023

    Season 5, episode 12. 1893 to 1894. I’m so sorry to break your hearts, but mine is broken too. In 1894, after a protracted chest infection, Fred started coughing up blood + with horror, he + Janie would have realised that they were staring tuberculosis in the face.

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    25 Min.
  • Happily Ever After...
    Nov 25 2023

    Season 5, episode 11. 1890 to 1893. Janie and Fred move to the seaside in Redcar, North Yorkshire, we get to have rather a lovely snapshot of their life together with financial security, social mobility and even some balls and banquets. However back in Sheffield, Tuberculosis rears its ugly head.

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    29 Min.
  • Krakatoa (75th Episode!)
    Nov 18 2023

    Season 5, episode 10. September 1883 to August 1889. We follow Janie and Fred's growing family, catch up with their family and friends back in Sheffield, and the goings on at the North Eastern Steel Company in Middlesbrough, as well as take a look at the impact of the first globally reported disaster.

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    30 Min.
  • Mr & Mrs Fred Shepherd
    Nov 5 2023

    Season 5, episode 9. October 1882 - November 1883. We follow Janie and Fred's first year of as newlyweds as they settle into married life in Middlesbrough, but back in Handsworth, Sheffield, all is not well. 1883 proves a year of highs and lows, of birth, marriage and death.

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    28 Min.
  • “I Fred Shepherd, take thee Jane Warburton”
    Oct 28 2023

    Season 5, episode 8. 7th - 12th October 1882. It's Fred and Janie's wedding! We have the last of the letters, and Ingrid tries her best to recreate the wedding of her Great Great Grandparents. Grab your tissues.

    [Wedding March Pipe Organ royalty free music standard license purchased from audio jungle/ Envato]

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    33 Min.
  • "My darling our letters will soon be closed"
    Oct 21 2023

    Season 5, episode 7. 2nd - 6th October 1882. The last full week of letters before Janie and Fred's wedding! Janie is rushing around organising everything for the wedding attendents, Fred is get the finishing touches made to what will be their new home, and, we have a little look at the tradition of bride-to-be's bottom drawer.

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    24 Min.
  • Phone upgrades in Victorian Britain
    Oct 13 2023

    Season 5, episode 6. 28th September - 1st October 1882. An industrial accident involving a crane takes place at Fred's works in Middlesbrough, and we take look at the history of the adoption of the telephone in Victorian Britain. Fred and Janie also reflect that their time of writing to each other is coming to an end.

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    23 Min.