S1 Ep2
Docent Peter Mills and Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at London’s Highgate Cemetery. Photo by Kate Taylor Mighty
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WCEM_102: Highgate Cemetery
Season 1 Episode 2
STORIES THIS EPISODE
The meaning of Victorian-Era Grave Monuments
Cemetery Landscape Architecture and Urban Green Spaces
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Exploring The Circle of Lebanon
Britain’s WWI BIPOC War Heroes
19th Century London Grave Robbers
George Eliot, author of Silas Marner
Episode Description
London’s Highgate Cemetery contains some of the finest funerary architecture in Great Britain. Host Roberto Mighty shares Victorian-era attractions. Roberto and expert guests visit the lives of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy; Mary Ann Evans/”George Eliot”, author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch; Black World War I hero Lt. Walter Tull; and discuss landscape architecture.
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery at Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. Official Website: https://highgatecemetery.org
Guest Expert: Johanna Gibbons
Title: Landscape Architect
Johanna Gibbons is a Landscape Architect and Fellow of the Landscape Institute. Jo was named a Royal Designer for Industry for her ‘pioneering and influential work combining design with activism, education and professional practice’. She is founding Partner of J & L Gibbons and founding Director of social enterprise Landscape Learn. Jo is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University, a research partner of Urban Mind, panel advisor to Historic England and the Forestry Commission and a Trustee of Open City. She publishes and lectures widely. https://jlg-london.com/
Guest Expert: Dr. Ian Dungavell
Title: Chief Executive, Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust
Dr Ian Dungavell has been Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust since September 2012. For 12 years previously he was Director of the Victorian Society. He has a Master’s degree in the conservation of the historic environment and a doctorate in architectural history. His first degree was in Art History from the Australian National University. https://highgatecemetery.org
Guest Expert: David Matthews
Title: Author
David Matthews is a bestselling writer and journalist. He has written for various newspapers and publications, including the Observer, Sunday Times, GQ and Esquire and has reported for the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of four books, including Looking For A Fight, which was shortlisted for the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, and he has produced several critically acclaimed documentaries, including Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved The NHS (BBC4); Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest (Channel 4) and Hutch: High Society's Favourite Gigolo (Channel 4). www.wordlab.co.uk
Guest Expert: Stephen Bourne
Title: Author
Stephen Bourne is a British writer, film and social historian specialising in Black heritage and gay culture. As noted by the BBC among others, Bourne "has discovered many stories that have remained untold for years". https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/127083.Stephen_Bourne
Guest Expert: Henry Flynn
Title: Docent, Highgate Cemetery
Guest Expert: Peter Mills
Title: Docent, Highgate Cemetery
This Episode Licensed Media Attributions: S1 Ep2
Museum and Art Gallery in Riversley Park, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. On the left of the picture is the town's Boer War monument.
Date 13 May 2010
Source https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1855022
Author © Copyright Stephen Pointer and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Attribution
(required by the license) Stephen Pointer / Museum and Art Gallery, Riversley Park / CC BY-SA 2.0
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Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Photographer: User: Justinc
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Gates of West Norwood Cemetery
originally posted to Flickr as West Norwood Cemetery
Author: Matt Brown
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United Kingdom - England - London - Brompton Cemetery.jpg
Author: C. G. P. Grey
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Description: A painting of body snatchers at work on the wall of the Old Crown Inn in the High Street of Penicuik in Midlothian. The inn is about 100 yards from the local parish kirkyard.
Date: 12 June 2012
Source: Own work
Author: Kim Traynor
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Description: Deutsch: Panorama Innsbruck Austria vom Rathaus Turm
Date: August 2005
Source: Own work
Author: Pahu
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Description: Innsbruck
Date: Taken on 1 July 2014
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161031075327/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/114871596
Author: Michael aus Halle
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Description: Zadie Smith announcing the five 2010 National Book Critics Circle finalists in fiction.
Date 22 January 2011
Source: Own work
Author: David Shankbone
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"Nederlands: Filmopnamen "" A bridge too far "" in Deventer, soldaten trekken over de brug 18 mei 1976
Date Taken on 18 May 1976
Source Nationaal Archief
Author Rob Mieremet / Anefo"
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English: Commemorative Air Force Gulf Coast Wing's Tora! Tora! Tora! Gang flying a Zero, Kate, and Val, break over wall of fire created by the Tora Bomb Squad
Date 29 March 2008
Source Own work
Author Ebdon
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English: A picture of Highgate Cemetery - East
Date 1 September 2010, 00:00 (UTC)
Source I (PanydThe muffin is not subtle) created this work entirely by myself.
Author PanydThe muffin is not subtle
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English: Panorama depicting the Front Court of King's College Cambridge
Date 12 May 2019, 19:53:14
Source Own work
Author Lamkingming
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English: Kazuo Ishiguro in Stockholm during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017.
Date 6 December 2017, 14:05:17
Source Own work
Author Frankie Fouganthin
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Tomb of George Eliot
Author Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
Date 13 August 2016
Source Own work
Attribution: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
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English: Anglican Chapel at Nunhead Cemetery, London SE15: view from the west
Date 27 April 2020, 14:57:11
Source Own work
Author GrindtXX
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"English: Monuments in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London E3
Date 22 April 2020, 17:52:29
Source Own work
Author GrindtXX"
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Description Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Hackney, London. 4 September 2005. Photographer: Fin Fahey
Source Own work
Author Tarquin Binary
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Photographer Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado)
Title: Hay Festival 2016 - Salman Rushdie
Date 29 May 2016
Credit line Andrew Lih
Source Own work
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English: Flyer for the 1979 stage production at the ICA of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Date 13 September 2016, 19:49:47
Source This is a scan from my personal collection of theatre memorabilia. This promotional item was given to me personally by Ken Campbell, director of the show in May 1979.
Author Unknown designer working for Ken Campbell's Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool.
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