S12E06 ATA GIRL!
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While researching Billie Swift Takes Flight Iszi discovered the story of Diana Barnato Walker - a world record setting pilot who flew Spitfires during the second world war. Diana was one of many female pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary that features in iszi's new children's book. The RAF needed planes delivered and women like Diana were the ones who did the flying. The work was dangerous. Find out how a simple lack of cushion nearly cost her her life!
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S12E05 Gertie The Dinosaur
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Victoria Coules has the best PHD going. She is researching representations of Paleontology in media. This means she gets to look at dinosaurs all day. As part of her research she has been studying Winsor Mccay, the cartoonist who pioneered modern animation by drawing an interactive cartoon of Gertie the dinosaur.
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S12E04 A Sore-Footed Success. The life of Florence Price.
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Were all composers white men with powdered wigs? The shocking truth is no, of course they weren't. Iszi speaks to Elizabeth de Brito of The Daffodil Perspective about the most famous of the non-male and non - white composers, Florence Price. Who I guess is still Z List unless you are very much into your classical music, and only old white men with powdered wigs like that, right? ;)
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S12E03 Cry Hard with a Vision
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I worry I may have been too positive about Margery Kempe. I do find her fascinating because of how modern she feels as a character. She's the sort of person you'd expect to find on Dr Phil.
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S12E02 The Story of Sarah Baartman
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Kim Kardashian is now famously a billionaire, mostly from selling shapewear which she promotes using her ass-sets. But was she the first person to commodify this particular body part and where has the idea of a large bottom being a sexual marker come from? Is it purely natural does it sinister undertones?
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S12E01 Maggotty Headed
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'He was a shiftless person, roving and maggotty-headed, and sometimes a little better than crazed. And being exceedingly credulous would stuff his many letters with fooleries and misinformations which sometimes would guide him into paths of error.' Anthony Wood on John Aubrey 31st August 1667
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Terrible Lizards Trailer
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No episode this month BECAUSE I've been working on another podcast. I know. It is all about dinosaurs and this is just a small taster. Go to www.terriblelizards.co.uk for more information.
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S11E19 Dead Kean
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Brill performance by Greg Jenner - author of the BRAND NEW book Dead Famous - and host of the You're Dead To Me Podcast. His performance is nearly as good as Edmund Kean. You know that hugely famous actor... you don't know Edmund Kean? Well listen up!
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BONUS EPISODE WITH BECHDEL CAST
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Unusual episode where I guest on The Bechdel Cast where Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus put movies to the Bechdel Test.
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S11E17 A Very British Spiderman
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No violence, all charm, this podcast isn't about Marvel, but it is of a man who marvels at the smallest and least understood creatures. Zayneb Allak explores the works of T.H.Savory. Recorded live at the Being Human Festival 2019.
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If you live in Reading, you've probably heard of Amelia Dyer. She was the most prolific of all British serial killers and dumped the bodies in the canal. Iszi recently found her address, so took a short stroll down to Kensington Road and ponders whether this serial killer was a product of her own insanity or if it was government policy that really allowed her to kill so many.
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Amelia Dyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Dyer
Iszi Lawrence is a presenter of BBC's Making History and The British Museum Membercast.www.iszi.comand on twitter: @iszi_lawrence.