Mostly Unsung: A Comedy History Podcast
The weekly comedy history podcast that brings you bitesize biographies of the extraordinary, eccentric, outrageous and occasionally ordinary lives that until now have gone mostly unsung... mostly. Join your hosts Annie and Andrea as they bring you stories that your history teacher never taught you!
If you like stuffy lectures then you're not going to be a fan, sorry! But if you are looking to hang out with two old friends who love story telling, a good laugh and forgotten figures from history then welcome!
Covering everything from scientists to Grandmothers, survivors of wars to eccentric millionaires, all via ghost stories, anecdotes and terrible impressions of Hollywood legend Tim Curry. Come and hang out, have a giggle and join us every Friday.
Mostly Unsung: A Comedy History Podcast
#70 A Boy With Iron Lungs & A Revolutionary Revolutionary (Paul Alexander & Francisco de Miranda)
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Welcome back to Mostly Unsung the weekly comedy history podcast.
If you love fascinating biographies, world history, inspiring people, and a good laugh along the way, you're in exactly the right place. Every Wednesday, we bring you two bite-sized biographies celebrating the heroes, trailblazers, and larger-than-life personalities that history left out of the textbooks.
Annie is in Dallas, Texas to tell the remarkable story of Paul Alexander, the man who refused to let polio define him. After contracting the disease as a child, Paul spent much of his life inside an iron lung, yet went on to earn a law degree, write a memoir, travel, and inspire millions around the world.
Then Andrea is in the mood for revolution, three of them!! Francisco de Miranda, the globe-trotting soldier, explorer, and revolutionary whose adventures took him across Europe, North America, and South America. Long before Simón Bolívar became a household name, Miranda was dreaming of an independent Latin America, fighting in revolutions, meeting kings and queens, and rubbing shoulders with some of history's most influential figures.
If you enjoy history podcasts, forgotten historical figures, world history, medical history, revolutionary history, inspiring biographies, and extraordinary true stories, Mostly Unsung is your new favourite weekly listen.
Whether you're here for the incredible man who lived for decades in an iron lung or the revolutionary who helped shape the fight for South American independence, this week's episode is packed with surprising stories, fascinating history, and the friendly chat and laughs you've come to expect from Annie and Andrea.
For this episode Andrea used these sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Miranda
https://georgianera.wordpress.com/tag/francisco-de-miranda/
https://www.thoughtco.com/francisco-de-miranda-2136403
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Miranda
For this episode Annie used these sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68627630
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lung-paul-alexander-polio-coronavirus
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