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Vices and Volumes is what happens when someone with zero literary qualifications decides to make a podcast about old books—and somehow makes it work. Host Avril Clinton-Forde, broadcasting from Ireland, reads delightfully ridiculous passages from vintage texts (1700s-1920s) and tumbles down historical rabbit holes with the enthusiasm of someone who finds 200-year-old instructions genuinely hilarious.Started because an American tourist with enviable confidence said "You should do a podcast!"—and Avril, armed with the unfounded self-assurance that only comes with aggressive bookshop browsing...

Victorians had opinions about EVERYTHING. Jaw shapes. Correct use of coil horns. Servant's gloves. All treated with the kind of earnest detail usually reserved for matters of real importance. Avril Clinton-Forde selects the delightfully absurd from her collection of Irish and British 1800s books—where privileged people wrote volumes about life's minutiae. Social catastrophes, Irish banshee etiquette, Georgian marriage disasters, bizarre upper-class hobbies, and enjoys wonderfully overcomplicated language of the 19th Century. For history lovers, heritage enthusiasts, and curious insomniacs!