Detouring with an Antiques Roadshow Podcast

Back in June, I shared news of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow Detours podcast that included the voice of Joel Bohy, Caitlin DeAngelis, and myself discussing an engraved silver drinking vessel.

That episode has now been released in video form under the title “What If Our Appraiser Got It Wrong?” You can watch on YouTube here.

While the baseline of a podcast video episode is people sitting in front of microphones and talking for forty minutes, producer Adam Monahan has spiced up these conversations with graphics, cuts, and other televisual elements. And you get to see my dining-room wallpaper and one of the sweaters my mother knit for me.

I don’t know if the video version is different in other small ways, with more or less historical content. To do that, I’d have to listen to both, and to do that, I’d have to be comfortable hearing and watching myself at length.

Both versions offer a discussion of the Vassall family, silversmith Nathaniel Hurd, and the eagerness to find artifacts on the right side of our Revolution. Choose the format you prefer.

As an adjunct to this link, I also recommend the Decoder Ring episode “What Even Is a “Podcast” Anymore?” It helps to explain how that medium has evolved, and acknowledges (even if it can’t explain) the peculiarities in the recent “pivot to video” for what started as a handy audio-only medium.