Please welcome to the fireside Tasha Kitcher (@tasha_kitcher), a PhD student at Loughborough University who is researching the electrophone: a Victorian-era streaming device. Tasha talks us through what this nineteenth-century invention promised, who it was targeted towards, and hypothesises on some reasons it didn't make the grade. She also shares the joys and complexities of taking on such a large project, as well as draws some parallels between the broadcasting-streaming-crossover device and our own covid-related comforts! Stay curious, stay cozy.