Famous People You've Never Heard Of
Episodes
52 episodes
Mrs Oscar Wilde - Lexi Wolfe Talks About Constance Lloyd
Constance Lloyd was born into a wealthy family. She wrote and published children's stories. She was an advocate of the dress reform movement. She married the love of her life and had two children. The love of her life wa...
Fossil Mary - Elizabeth Blake talks about Mary Anning. With Brenda Longman.
Elizabeth Blake has written -and performs in "Fossil Mary", a new play celebrating the life and remarkable discoveries of Mary Anning, the pioneering fossil hunter who found her first dinosaur skeleton at the age of 12 and whose ski...
A Little Green Leaf - Will Carr & Kathleen O'Reilly talk about Odette Hallowes
The Leaf Collective are presenting their play A Little Green Leaf a this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is inspired by the life of Odette Hallowes (MBE, Legion d’Honneur, George Cross), Britain’s most highly decorated s...
The Last Bantam - Michael Hughes talks about the Bantam Battalions of the First World War
1914. The Great War rages. Britain recruits 30,000 Bantams, men between five-foot and five-foot-three to fight in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. 1918. A group of reporters visit the Front to write about the Bantams. One Bantam remain...
Bloody Mary's
Mary McKinnon was a businesswoman in the 19th century. Her business was a brothel and bar. One fateful day trouble broke out and Mary's demise was swift and merciless.Her story is an excellent illustration of how the law at t...
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The Last Dance: Will Visconti & Stella Kulagowski talk about Louise Weber - "La Goulue"
Louise Weber might have invented the Can Can. She was a huge star in Paris where she danced at the Moulin Rouge (in fact she was the poster girl for the place), inspired Toulouse -Lautrec and beguiled the Prince of Wales.Known by ...
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The Art of Entertainment - Dr Jason Price talks about Therese Lessore
Therese Lessore (1884-1945) was an artist and founder member of the London Group. She was also the third wife of Walter Sickert.In this episode Dr Jason Price talks about Lessore's life and work and we discover just what a tr...
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Mrs Shaw Herself - Alexis Leighton & Helen Tierney talk about Charlotte Payne-Townshend
Charlotte Payne-Townshend did not like to be in the limelight but she deserves to be remembered as someone other than the wife of George Bernard Shaw. After all, without Charlotte Shaw would not have had the financial security that enable...
Mother of Monsters - Episode 3: Carpe Futurum
Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were mother and daughter. They never met, but were both brilliant writers, feminists and free thinkers. They both had exciting lives and they each crafted a book that has inspired generations.
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Mother of Monsters - Episode 2: Nature vs Nurture
Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were mother and daughter. They never met, but were both brilliant writers, feminists and free thinkers. They both had exciting lives and they each crafted a book that has inspired generations.
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Mother of Monsters Episode 1: An Unexpected Visitor
Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were mother and daughter. They never met, but were both brilliant writers, feminists and free thinkers. They both had exciting lives and they each crafted a book that has inspired generations.
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Stand and Deliver!! An introduction to the world of the Dandy Highwaywoman with Sara Hiorns
They are the stuff of legend and song - the dashing women who defied gender stereotypes to plunder stagecoaches and acquire ill-gotten gains.But was it all as romantic as movies such as "The Wicked Lady" would have us believe...?H...
The Ghost of White Hart Lane - Rob White, Martin Murphy & Callum Lewis-Newman talk about John White
What decision did you make today that had implications on the rest of your life?For Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland star player John White a simple choice to play golf made a devastating difference to the lives of his family when a freak ...
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Arts for Art's Sake - Marianne McNamara & Dr Dan Weinbren talk about Jennie Lee
“In any civilised community the arts... must occupy a central place. Their enjoyment should not be regarded as something remote from everyday life” What a quote - what a woman!Jennie Lee was an MP before she was old en...
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Women's Own (How to Kill Your Husband and Get Away With It
We've all enjoyed those chatty radio and TV shows and podcasts where the presenters are mates in the real world or have a good rapport and every so often allow a little of their real lives to slip into the show's content. But has anyone h...
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Call Backs
Call Backs takes us back to that weird post lockdown era when we were still sort of locked down. All sorts of relationships were affected in all sorts of ways…This is a fun look back on those very strange times!W...
The Hackneyed Detective
Released to coincide with the Hackney History Festival The Hackneyed Detective is an audio drama about Daniel Ludlow, a modern day private eye based in East London.Daniel is down on his luck and takes solace from the...
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Bly's Spirit
Nellie Bly was an American journalist who is famous for her record breaking 72 day round the world trip.Before that though she went undercover into an "insane asylum" to report on the appalling conditions to which the patients were su...
Songs From the Shadows
A while ago we spoke with Dr Mary Shannon about Billy Waters and Mary's upcoming biography of him - "Billy Waters is Dancing".Well the book is now out (and a jolly fine read it is, too) and Mary has joined forces with historian Dr. Ben M...
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Her Father's Daughter - Stephen Bourne & Patricia Hammond talk about Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1988); Wikipedia says she was a "pianist". She was. She was also a composer and conductor (in fact she was the first female conductor of the band of the Royal Marines). She was also the daug...
"Damn Tom & Jerry" - Dr Mary Shannon Talks About Billy Waters. With Charlotte Campbell.
We're delighted and privileged to be releasing today's podcast on the 200th anniversary of the death of Billy Waters.Born in 1776 Waters was a familiar sight on the Strand in London. He was a black ex-sailor who had been inval...
"The African Mahler": Chenoa Murphy talks about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer.His mother was English and his father from Sierra Leone. He referred to himself as "Anglo-African" and was referred to by white musicians in the US as the "Black Mah...
Blood, Sweat and Vaginas , with Paula David - One Woman Wednesdays
Paula David's one woman show is a journey through menopause and a discovery of self.It is poetic and musical, has movement and dance and examines something that all women experience and few have the courage to speak about. It is also ...
She Wolves with Laura Careless - One Woman Wednesdays
This one-woman show, based on the book and television series She-Wolves: The Women who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by historian Helen Castor, depicts the lives of five of England’s most famous medieval queens (Empress Matilda, Elean...
Testament of Yootha - One Woman Wednesdays
Yootha Joyce, best known for "George and Mildred" was one of the best known TV stars of the 1970's. But she was so much more...Award -winning actress Caroline Burns-Cooke tells her story in the brilliant one woman show "Test...
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