Much to no one's surprise, it's another rainy London morning. “I'm sorry, I was walking my dog and it started pouring,” Carol Woolton apologizes with impeccable manners after delaying the start of our interview by a mere ten minutes. Writer, historian, stylist, curator, teacher… there are so many facets of her career over almost three decades that the only way to define her is to call her what she is, Britain's foremost authority on jewelry. Editor of magazines such as Vogue or Tatler at a time when the publishing sector did not even bother to give gemstones a second glance, Woolton now channels all her knowledge and experiences in the podcast If Jewels Could Talk. In just a short time, this program has become an enjoyable companion for those interested in jewelry as well as for those who know how to recognize their importance in the course of history: You just have to tune your ears in.
Could you tell us how the idea of creating the podcast came about? Did you expect to have this big an impact on the industry?
I didn't expect it, but it's been wonderful because it's all happened
