Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Patty Baker, Senior Lecturer in Classical & Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent. Patty, who is originally from Pennsylvania, has been at Kent for 18 years, and she talks about how it feels to go back and we discuss the concept of ‘home’ and the notion of moving on. We discuss what happens when you run into people from your past and the lessons that can be learned. Patty talks about the different places where her family members have ended up and we move on to talk about the different dreams that we chase. She talks about her early memories and the calling she had to visit exotic places from childhood. We find out what initiated her love of archaeology, why she ‘had’ to go to Italy and how at the age of 15 she knew she was going to specialise in Graeco-Roman history. Patty reveals that she had a passion for the sea from childhood, which takes her into a different world, and she talks about why she feels so healthy there. She also tells us about how she came across a