009 - Sipping Time Visits: Warsaw

012 - Roman Painting: Ancient Rome's Lost Masterpieces

Ancient Rome has had a rich, lasting artistic legacy, influencing arts and culture into our modern world. Examples of sculpture, architecture, and writing abound, but what about painting? Beyond a few scant examples, very little has survived of this art form, once regarded as the highest in all Roman society. We dive into the story of Roman painting - how it developed, its artistic heritage (dating back to the Greeks and Etruscans), and how it developed. We discuss some fantastic surviving examples in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the four painting styles that developed there - complex, refined, and still deeply appealing. We also discuss the Fayum portraits, some of the only remaining painting on board and canvas. The naturalistic rendering of these portraits demonstrate a level of technical detail often overlooked when thinking of Roman painting. Hauntingly realistic portraits painted for the dead, as part of Egypto-Roman funerary rituals - painted when either alive or dead. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we've enjoyed researching it! ____ For suggestions, comments, or just to say hi, our email is sippingtimepodcast@gmail.com Our twitter is: https://twitter.com/Sipping_Time And our Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/sippingtimepodcast/ Please give us a follow if you enjoy the show! Hosts: Adrian Cathie and Sami Pontin Editing and Design: Adrian Cathie

011 - Witch Trials of Scotland

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes... On this episode of Sipping Time, we are joined by friend of the show Kieran, who takes us through the fascinating stories of witches, and their trials, in Scotland. We discuss witch trials, while looking at them through both contextual and modern lenses, the context of Jacobean Europe, and dive deep into the dark, grisly tales of witch trials in Scotland. Thanks to Kieran for doing a fantastically well-researched job, while keeping the conversation on the fine edge of detailed but light-hearted. We hope you enjoy the show! ____ For suggestions, comments, or just to say hi, our email is sippingtimepodcast@gmail.com Our twitter is: https://twitter.com/Sipping_Time And our Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/sippingtimepodcast/ Please give us a follow if you enjoy the show! Hosts: Adrian Cathie and Sami Pontin Editing and Design: Adrian Cathie

010 - Sipping Time Visits: Montréal

We're back with another Visits show - this time exploring the fascinating history of Montréal, Canada! We catch up on Sami's trip there as he takes us through the history, architecture, and general vibes of the place (spoiler alert, we use the word 'lit' a lot!). We dive deeply into the city's pre-founding, the dynamics of French/English North America, and go hard on the fascinating life of Jacques Cartier, a 15th Century French-Breton explorer that traversed the St. Lawrence River and encountered the Iroquois town of Hochelaga, the settlement on modern-day Montréal. For suggestions, comments, or just to say hi, our email is sippingtimepodcast@gmail.com Our twitter is: https://twitter.com/Sipping_Time And our Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/sippingtimepodcast/ Please give us a follow if you enjoy the show! Hosts: Adrian Cathie and Sami Pontin Editing and Design: Adrian Cathie

009 - Sipping Time Visits: Warsaw

Following a shared trip to Warsaw, Sipping Time is back to discuss the history of Poland’s resilient capital. Nicknamed the ‘Phoenix City’, Warsaw has had an extremely turbulent past - with resoundingly high highs and devastatingly low lows.  We unpack some of the stories that led to this reputation, seeking to understand the historical contexts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Swedish and Russian wars, and the fascinating rebuilding of the city after the Second World War.  We also recount the trip itself - with our whisky-infused amblings around the city, and our impressions, as a frequent visitor, and a first-time comer.  We also dive headfirst into the thrilling story of Sigismund III Vasa, the depicted king upon the Column of Sigismund (Kolumna Zygmunta) in the Old Town. A story of bloody familial betrayals, tremulously vast wars, and ridiculously shaky imposter-tsars… this story has all the makings of an epic film series. For suggestions, comments, or just to say hi, our email is sippingtimepodcast@gmail.com  Our twitter is: https://twitter.com/Sipping_Time  And our Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/sippingtimepodcast/  Please give us a follow if you enjoy the show!  Hosts: Adrian Cathie and Sami Pontin  Editing and Design: Adrian Cathie

008 - Escape Rooms

Escape rooms - a new and exciting type of game, based on playful exploration and problem-solving, where players are thrown into locked rooms and dared to escape! Sometimes quite literally. It's very possible that you yourself have been to one, or even a few. We jump into the topic alongside a guest, Mairi Nolan, a passionate escape room afficionado with an extremely impressive amount of completed rooms under her belt.  We discuss the concept of escape rooms, the history, and various themes along the way. As customary, we also veer into random potholes of history, among others discussing daring (and not-so-daring) escapes throughout history, such as Charles I, Roger Mortimer, and Ranulph Flambard (the first prisoner and escapee of the Tower of London). We also engage in a deeply thorough discussion of which historical figures we'd like to have on our team in an escape room! We hope you enjoy! Thanks again to our guest, Mairi Nolan, for jumping on this episode with us - her social media handle is @mairispaceship and her website is https://www.mairispaceship.com/ ___ For suggestions, comments, or just to say hi, our email is sippingtimepodcast@gmail.com Our twitter is: https://twitter.com/Sipping_Time And our Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/sippingtimepodcast/ Please give us a follow if you enjoy the show! Hosts: Adrian Cathie and Sami Pontin Editing and Design: Adrian Cathie