Oh boy, with Jenny on maternity leave last autumn we haven't updated you guys on the latest season!

In case you missed it, season 17 included:
🪑 Furniture conservation
🍵 Being sustainable with the Green Tea Podcast
🪬 Conserving the sacred
👻 A Halloween special
🇩🇰 Natural History Museum Denmark takeover
🇨🇾 A road trip
🇧🇷 A Brazilian conference special
⛄ A little Christmas chat

Go check it out here (or wherever you get your #podcasts from): http://www.thecword.show

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Season finale! 🎉

We get a little philosophical in this one: Liz, Solange and Jenny talk about use of #collections and objects, #access and human nature 💭

We'd originally intended for this episode to be a road trip special but due to Life Events (a house move) for one of our team members this'll now be a Patreon bonus episode instead. 🗺️ Thanks for understanding!

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/07/03/s16e08-objects-for-use/

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You've not missed our lovely Liz reviewing the nifty little loggers from BevArt, have you? 👀

(Full disclosure: BevArt are kindly sponsoring us this season and sent Liz the sensors for free to try out. Cheers, guys!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnAiRIJ8ic

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It's that time of year: the voting is open for the #BritishPodcastAwards!

We're small fish but we'd really appreciate your vote if you like our show.

Simply go here, type in The C Word and select the podcast with our awesome logo from the drop-down: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

Thank you!

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New episode! ✨

How do self-employed conservators find clients? 🔎

Jenny, Solange, and Liz share some strategies, while listeners in private practitioners reveal what really works.

One of our most useful episodes ever, we reckon!

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/06/11/s16e07-finding-clients/

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New episode! ✨

What's it like leaving university and heading straight into the world of #freelancing and/or private practice? 🎓 Liz, Isabella and Sophie spill the beans!

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/29/s16e06-early-career-freelancing/

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New episode! ♻️

Jenny and Solange are joined by Panos Morfis as we figure out #bioplastics: what they are, how we can look after them, and why #conservators should get onboard with #3Dprinting.

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/14/s16e05-bioplastics/

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S16E05: Bioplastics

C is for: Compostable Jenny and Solange are joined by conservation scientist Panagiotis Morfis as we talk bioplastics: what are they, where do they crop up, and how can we look after them? Also tune in for a review of ‘Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis’ from Jenny. 01:03 Feeling out of our depth is okay 05:00 What ARE bioplastics? 07:25 Information and identification 14:09 Bringing in the science 17:06 3D printing 25:28 Survey time! 29:46 3D printers in every home 31:07 The place of 3D printers in conservation 38:51 A return to making 48:44 Review: Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis Show Notes: - S02E05 Modern Materials (our old plastics episode!): https://thecword.show/2017/10/18/s02e05-modern-materials/ - Research overview from Panos: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vNefVxMUH2urWH62RSkoMkJ6LrfSxVo/view?usp=sharing - FTIR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-transform_infrared_spectroscopy - Raman spectroscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_spectroscopy - Liquid chromatography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_liquid_chromatography - Panos’ survey: https://forms.office.com/r/XJv81gneMW - Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis: https://www.routledge.com/Experimental-Design-and-Scientific-Data-Analysis/Skipper-Skipper/p/book/9781032501635 Recommended Reading from Panos: - ‘Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics’: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/design-innovation/sustainability-at-christmas - MoDiP projects: https://www.modip.ac.uk/projects - A curator’s guide to plastics: https://www.modip.ac.uk/projects/curators-guide-plastics Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Solange Masher and Panagiotis (Panos) Morfis. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2025.

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New episode! ✨

We've been overthrown! Wait, no, scratch that. *shuffling of notes* We've invited people to do a takeover! That's less alarming and more fun.

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2025/05/01/s16e04-heritage-trust-network-youth-forum-takeover/

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S16E04: Heritage Trust Network Youth Forum Takeover

C is for: Collective In this takeover special folks from the Heritage Trust Network Youth Forum get real about being emerging and early career professionals in heritage: sharing thoughts on resilience, broad skill sets, and whether or not we’re over the whole ‘digital’ thing. Are we maybe done with instant gratification? Also tune in for a book review from Liz! 00:13 BevArt update! 01:45 Introducing our takeover crew 02:55 Meet Grace, Becca, Emily, and Kate 13:46 How do you get experience? 20:01 Discovering a hidden community 26:38 Let’s talk digitisation in heritage 42:02 Our own collections 44:35 Review: Gesina ter Borch Show Notes: - BevArt: https://www.bev.art/ - Heritage Trust Network Youth Forum: https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/heritage-trust-network-youth-forum/ - Gesina ter Borch by Adam Eaker: https://shop.getty.edu/products/gesina-ter-borch-978-1606069462 Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by the people at the Heritage Trust Network Youth Forum in collaboration with The C Word team. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2025.

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Kloe paid an intergenerational visit to Shibden Hall for our latest episode: here she is with her mother and her baby boy!

If you'd like to hear her visit a place where you can practically smell the wood panelling through your headphones/speakers, listen to our latest episode here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/16/s16e03-local-little-museums/

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S16E03: Local Little Museums

C is for: Can We Go? Join us as we all share the love for the smaller museums out there by visiting somewhere local (to each of us) or ditty (if we were on holiday). Come along to five wonderful little museums! 01:03 Solange visits Derwent Pencil Museum 09:52 Phedra goes to the Museum of Greek Refugees 24:33 Liz visits the Our Lord in the Attic Museum 34:17 Kloe goes to Shibden Hall 44:00 Jenny visits the Dylan Thomas Boathouse Show Notes: - Derwent Pencil Museum: https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb/c/about/company/derwent-pencil-museum - The Museum of Greek Refugees: https://www.visitkavala.gr/en/sightseeing/museum-greek-refugees/ - Our Lord in the Attic Museum: https://opsolder.nl/en/museum-our-lord-in-the-attic/ - Shibden Hall: https://museums.calderdale.gov.uk/visit/shibden-hall - Dylan Thomas Boathouse: https://cofgar.wales/venues/dylan-thomas-boathouse/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2025.

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Our lovely Solange was on holiday and took a detour to Derwent Pencil Museum with her kids: let's get immersed in the world of #pencils with them, shall we? ✏️

Listen to our latest episode here: https://thecword.show/2025/04/16/s16e03-local-little-museums/

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S16E03: Local Little Museums

C is for: Can We Go? Join us as we all share the love for the smaller museums out there by visiting somewhere local (to each of us) or ditty (if we were on holiday). Come along to five wonderful little museums! 01:03 Solange visits Derwent Pencil Museum 09:52 Phedra goes to the Museum of Greek Refugees 24:33 Liz visits the Our Lord in the Attic Museum 34:17 Kloe goes to Shibden Hall 44:00 Jenny visits the Dylan Thomas Boathouse Show Notes: - Derwent Pencil Museum: https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb/c/about/company/derwent-pencil-museum - The Museum of Greek Refugees: https://www.visitkavala.gr/en/sightseeing/museum-greek-refugees/ - Our Lord in the Attic Museum: https://opsolder.nl/en/museum-our-lord-in-the-attic/ - Shibden Hall: https://museums.calderdale.gov.uk/visit/shibden-hall - Dylan Thomas Boathouse: https://cofgar.wales/venues/dylan-thomas-boathouse/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2025.

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