S02E06: Replicas, Surrogates, and Digitisation

We philosophise around the topics of replicas, surrogates, and digitisation. When is a copy a copy? When is a replica a fake? We have a brief chat with Dan Pemberton from the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences about chocolate replicas for a museum bake-off, we interview Jessica Pollard from the British Library about digitisation, and talk to Susanne Turner from the Museum of Classical Archaeology about having a collection full of replicas. 00:00:29 Why copy anything at all? 00:01:49 Collections of replicas 00:03:03 Philosophy time! When is a copy a copy? And a replica a fake? 00:05:47 When is it OK to display copies instead of originals? 00:09:37 The value of displaying real things 00:16:15 Museum shops and replicas 00:18:45 Interview with Dan Pemberton 00:22:08 Museum bake-off and our love of cake 00:24:06 What’s the difference between a replica and a surrogate? 00:26:48 Sometimes only replicas survive 00:29:05 So what about digitisation - where does it fit in? 00:38:34 Interview with Jessica Pollard 00:51:26 Interview with Susanne Turner 01:10:20 Comments, questions, corrections: freelancing and another podcast Show Notes: - Anglesey Abbey’s pagoda clock: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-32016832 - Within the Wires podcast: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires/ For more on The C Word please follow us on Twitter @thecwordpodcast, email us on [email protected], or subscribe via our website, http://thecword.show  Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Additional sound effects and music by Calum Robertson. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2017.