Alex Marshall
speaker
21 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Alex Marshall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And finally... So most museums around the world have a cardinal rule, which is you can't touch the items on display.
Often you can't even go near them.
They're always kept behind glass.
But the V&A East Storehouse is trying to do something completely different.
It's trying to give visitors radical access...
I went recently and spent a whole day there to talk to people who had ordered objects to find out just why they had selected certain items.
I met a woman called Amanda who turned out to be an amateur novelist.
And she was writing her first book and she'd ordered all these old clothes so she could write about her protagonists better.
But then one of the storehouse employees brought out this hat she'd ordered that had a big ostrich feather sticking out of the top.
And they warned her not to touch the feather because it had been treated with arsenic to preserve it.
And suddenly a man's face lit up and she shouted out loud, my God, I've got a new murder weapon.
Because she could suddenly visualise a way that in the late 1800s someone might have been able to have committed a crime and gone undetected.
Marty Git, Blunderbuss, Cumberbatch, Mogwipe.
He's the village's worst... Crumpet, Clipe, Spoonie Bard, Wattlesnipe.
Crumble boar.
Splink.
Bobbins.
Gloin.
Some of my personal favorite childhood insults are Spanner and Plank and Johnny No-Mates.
I have no idea who Johnny, who the unfortunate Johnny is.
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