A Product of Our Time

In the last episode of this season, Steph and Marina embark on a journey to understand how our identity is shaped by nostalgia. We explore identity continuity by sharing personal memories and asking how nostalgia can shape it. After this one, we are away for Christmas, but we'll be thinking about next steps and creative development. If you have any ideas on how we can grow, please share them h...

In this personal episode, Marina and Steph embark on a journey of food in the context of nostalgia. Food is a representation of our culture, on both a broader and a personal level, and we try to make sense of that by reminiscing about foods that have been important for us throughout our lives. The book Marina mentioned is Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North". Music: Fay G...

For our seventh episode, we’ve chosen to discuss something we didn’t originally plan to talk about, but it kept coming up in our private discussions around the podcast. What is grief, and how does it relate to nostalgia? While grief is usually associated with a loss of a person, we also talk about mourning the loss of home, place and identity. We also mention mourning past relationships, be it rom...

Steph and Marina embark on a journey across different locations in North Bewick and Edinburgh to discuss the significance of location and belonging. Tune in to hear our thoughts on language, migration and home. Music: Fay Guiffo Art: Liza Hihlushka

Marina and Steph delve into the memory of witches in Scotland. Steph shares her knowledge of the witch trials in Scotland, contextualising historical truths. This allows us to explore capitalisation of nostalgia, emotional truth versus historical fact, and how we can reclaim the memory of the subversive and the marginalised with respect. Music: Fay Guiffo Art: Liza Hihlushka

What is historic nostalgia, and can it be about connecting with people of the past? Marina and Steph delve into social history, exploring it from the perspectives of art, literature, theatre and place. Since we discuss history in this episode, we will mention a few places, names, and sources.  If you wish to delve deeper after hearing our remarks, here’s your reading list: The article Steph mentio...

In ‘Childhood’, Marina and Steph embark on a deeply personal, nostalgic journey through the material objects and core memories of their childhoods. Recounting stories from South Africa, Scotland and Belarus, we take you back in time, and hope this journey into our pasts can help you find a way into your own. p.s. We apologise for some sound issues in this episode, hope you still enjoy it! Music: F...

In the second episode, your co-hosts Steph and Marina delve into the most familiar, yet at times alienating notion – love. Pop culture trends capitalise on love, urging a cross-generational nostalgia for people and times that never were. However, can longing for love help us build community and forge an understanding of ourselves? Find out with us in Longing for Love! Music: Fay Guiffo Art: Liza H...

In the first episode, Marina and Steph go over reasons for the recent rise in the trend of micro-nostalgia, and describe their personal associations with the wider notion of nostalgia. Music: Fay Guiffo Art: Liza Hihlushka