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Episode 8: Kitchen Physic

Kitchen Physic

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life, Kitchen Physic

Historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.

Exploring life at home in the past, historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which have never been heard before. Including songs which have been specially recorded for the series. 

From rabies to madness and piles, the housewives of the past were expected to concoct medicines which would cure any condition.

Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.

Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen Norris at the keyboard.

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Historian Amanda Vickery reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries

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