Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Penny Bernard who gets to wallow in heritage and nostalgia as part of her job translating archaeology for school audiences. We discover that one silver lining in what has been a challenging year for everybody is that Penny has been able to follow her dream of going to art college. We also learn about her family Tudor dinner party and how she finds that children are better at following Covid guidelines than adults. Penny talks about how her family defines itself by its myths and histories, but she explains why this can be suffocating. She can trace her ancestry back to Somerset, and we learn that she was once kidnapped in Albania. Her earliest memory involves forget-me-nots and a traumatic memory involving wet hair, and she tells me why she thinks memory is an artful lie. Penny talks about what happened when she found her younger diaries and how myopic they could be, and she reflects on how there are dangers with relying on Facebook to tell us what we did in the past when that fu