About the show
Welcome to Hidden Heritage – the podcast that brings you inside Great Britain’s favourite destinations with help from custodians, historians, artisans and experts.
From the same team that brought you the No.1 History podcast Duchess, Hidden Heritage uncovers the fascinating stories behind the UK brightest hidden gems. With the help from the biggest voices within British heritage, Hidden Heritage will explore some of the key challenges facing national heritage today and how they can be addressed.
Hosted by Lady Violet Manners, founder of HeritageX and Executive Producer of the hit podcast Duchess, this podcast shares the untold & unique stories that celebrate UK heritage. From landmarks to architecture, artefacts to myths & legends, Hidden Heritage will highlight a side to British history you have never seen before.
This is Hidden Heritage.
Hosted by Violet Manners — Viscountess Garnock (née Lady Violet Manners) — this series explores the lives of those shaped, influenced or quietly drawn towards heritage.
Some guests grew up inside historic houses, as Violet did.Some work behind the scenes preserving them.Others simply fell in love with old places and found that fascination shaping the course of their lives.
These are conversations about ambition, memory, risk, family and belonging — with heritage woven throughout.
Because heritage is never just about buildings.
It is about the people drawn to them, shaped by them, and sometimes changed because of them.
In this episode of Hidden Heritage, Violet Manners is joined by antiquary, broadcaster and storyteller Steven Moore — a man whose life has been shaped by objects, and the stories they carry.
Known to millions through his appearances on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and Antiques Road Trip, Steven has spent decades uncovering the overlooked — not simply valuable objects, but the human lives embedded within them. From early beginnings staging his own pottery exhibition at sixteen, to becoming one of the most recognisable and trusted voices in cultural history, his journey has been driven by curiosity, instinct, and an enduring belief that the smallest objects often hold the greatest meaning.
In this conversation, Steven reflects on the formative influences that shaped him, from childhood stories shared at his grandmother’s knee to the mentors and discoveries that set him on his path. He speaks about Venice, a city that has captivated him for nearly thirty years, and how its layers of craftsmanship and history have deepened his understanding of storytelling.
We also discuss his deeply personal book, The Stuff of History, a compendium of curious objects and overlooked lives, and why beauty, memory and material culture remain essential to how we understand ourselves.
This is a conversation about attention — about learning to see, to listen, and to recognise the quiet significance of the things that surround us.
Follow Steven Moore on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/stevenmooreantiques/
Discover his book, The Stuff of History:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789294986
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