Outrageous History!
The emperor Napolean Bonaparte, the artist Caravaggio, the writer Oscar Wilde, the Roman Empire, the lawman Wyatt Earp, the French revolutionary leader Robespierre, the Watergate scandal…..outrageous individuals and events that have significantly influenced history. You’ll find it hard to believe some of the preposterous, scandalous and excessive behaviors which permeate history. Join journalist Ernest Granson as he interviews historians around the world, delving into some of history’s most outrageous moments. You can’t make this stuff up!
Outrageous History!
Rhea Clyman: the Canadian Bourgeois Troublemaker
Rhea Clyman, born in Poland and raised in Canada, jostled her way into becoming an foreign correspondent for the Toronto Evening Telegram in the 1920s. One of the few women journalists during that era, she managed to land an assignment to cover the newly emerging Communist U.S.S.R. Her epic trips to Siberia and other parts of the famine ravaged country, changed her view of the Communist concept and landed her in hot water with Soviet government officials, and soon after, on a one way ticket out of the country. Not to be deterred, Clyman made her way to cover the Nazi regime in Germany. Her groundbreaking journalism remained mainly unknown until Jars Balan, director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, stumbled upon some of Clyman's articles during his research. Balan describes his search for the facts behind this exceptional young woman.