Show notes
Today Frances has a guest, her friend Dr Emma Cleobury, whose parents were both Olympic athletes - Sylvia Cheeseman and John Disley. There is plenty of chat about running, marathons, King's College Oxford, the Cutty Sark and Whitechapel Bell Foundry.John Disley and Chris Brasher founded the London Marathon in 1981, and Emma was there at the finish, as a volunteer, as a 'spindler' and 'plucker'Frances reads Vera's 1908 letter, a first hand account of the finish of the London Olympics marathon at White City and Emma has plenty of marathon anecdotes.Frances and Emma recorded a video chat between Australia and the UK; this is the audio from that recording, so apologies that the audio is not as good as usual. You can watch the video, on the Machell Cox Letters YouTube channel, in 2 parts, at this link.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfFVcOvI9WjcCEN1BjLPV3gFrances thinks the noisy bird who screeched during Vera's letter was a butcherbird.Please do email Frances about any of this content - [email protected] on Twitter - @CoxLettersAll content is subject to copyright, and belongs to both Frances Thompson and the Bodleian Library.Intro - 00:00David Machell Cox - 6:02Corpus Christi College Cambridge - 7:22King's College Cambridge - 11:24Ten siblings, family tree - 20:301908 Marathon - 22:00Sylvia Cheeseman - 23:35John Disley - 27:181981 London Marathon - 27:57Bendigo (Victoria, Australia) and the Whitechapel Bell Foundry - 33:00The Cutty Sark - 35:201908 London Marathon - 37:25Vera's 1908 marathon letter - 39:18