Tony Robinson is best-known for playing turnip-brained Baldrick who always had 'a cunning plan' in the iconic TV show Blackadder. He's presented countless documentaries throughout his 50-year career, including 20-years on Channel 4's Time Team, inspired by his passion for history and for digging deep into the past to understand more about the present. That's his thing!In his cunningly curated history podcast, Tony is delving into the weird and wonderful stories that grab him and make him want to know more about the world around us. He’s asking: Why was Stonehenge built? What did the past smell like, was it horrible? Why were pies invented? Why do our dogs love us so much? When did tattoos stop being taboo? What do bones tell us about past humanity? Amongst other intriguing questions... Along the way, Tony is joined by experts and special guests, including Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Raksha Dave, John Lloyd, Alice Roberts, Grace Neutral and David Mitchell who help provide some answers.So join Tony Robinson as he hosts his cunningly curated history podcast. New episodes drop Thursdays...
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episode 9: EP9: Do our DOGS Really Love Us?
Tony really loves his dog Holly Berry, but does she really love him back? During lockdown there was a huge surge in the demand for dogs and the ‘pandemic puppy’ became something of a cliché. Now we are all going back to work, these dogs are being left home alone more often and the ‘post pandemic’ dog’s life is potentially very lonely. As a keen dog owner, Tony wants to know more about the history of dogs: dog evolution, keeping dogs as pets and why it is that we turn to dogs to bring us comfort in difficult times.
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Clive Wynne / Twitter @caninecognition
Professor, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University. Clive is a behavioural scientist with a fascination for dogs and their wild relatives, he directs the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University in Tempe, he’s the Director of Research at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, and the author of ‘Dog Is Love’.
www.clivewynne.com
Ingrid Tague
Professor of History at the University of Denver. Ingrid’s recent book, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain explains the rise of pet keeping as a widespread phenomenon in Britain.
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