100 Years of Cox
I am telling the story of ten siblings from the Machell Cox family, through the letters they wrote to each other. They were born in England between 1868 and 1884; seven of them lived in England and three lived abroad, in the Colonies. One of the siblings was my great grandfather.
Podcasting since 2020 • 74 episodes
100 Years of Cox
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S4E13: 1945 - War and Atomic bombs
Frances reads more letters from 1945, in which the siblings describe VE Day, VJ Day, the atomic bombs and the July 1945 General election.The siblings are horrified at the devastation in Japan after the atomic bombs were dropped. After 80...
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S4E12 - 1945: VE Day and VJ Day
Frances is reading letters from 1945, as the Machell Cox siblings experience the end of WW2 and VE Day in May and VJ Day in August.In this year of 2025, as we acknowledge the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, the opinions and observati...
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S4E11: Aldwyn and his coffin sofa bunk
This continues Aldwyn's story from the previous episode - listen to S4E10 first.In 1912 Aldwyn took 3 months to travel from Likoma island, Lake Malawi, to Folkestone on a German East Africa steamship, describing plenty of details on boar...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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29:28
S4E10: Murder in Malawi in 1911
This is Aldwyn's story, in Africa, in 1911 in Nyasaland (now Malawi) - continued in the next episode.He is Anglican clergy, responsible for a large Mission station, at Kota Kota, on the west side of Lake Malawi in central Africa. But the...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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29:28
S4E9: Endhall & Wibbly Wob - 1912
Frances reads letters from 1912 from the Machell Cox siblings about visiting Enid and Cyril's house, Endhall in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.Family letters also discuss Wibbly-Wob, Women's Suffrage, pears, jigsaws, Vera's knee and the anxi...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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28:58