Podcast Episodes

Anne Frank 2025

During our coverage of Miep Gies, we presented the story of the events that were happening in the world at large during WW2, closer in within the ci…

1 year, 5 months ago

Miep Gies Part 2

Miep Gies risked her life in order to help her Jewish friends hide from the Nazis during World War 2. In Part 2 of her story, we'll take you through …

1 year, 6 months ago

Miep Gies Part 1

In a land fraught with turbulence and oppression, Miep Gies helped to shelter and supply Anne Frank's family (and others) while they were in hiding f…

1 year, 6 months ago

A Conversation with Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

To leave you with a bit of lagniappe for Women's History Month, we broke our usual format to sit down for a talk with Anne Sebba, author of the new b…

1 year, 7 months ago

Wallis Simpson, 2025

Puppet? Manipulating social climber? Misunderstood? Deeply in love? However you see her, the fact remains that a king abdicated his throne, defied hi…

1 year, 7 months ago

Wangari Maathai Part 2

We continue the story of Nobel Prize winning environmentalist Dr Wangari Maathai, who defied convention, financial hurdles, and the violent oppositio…

1 year, 7 months ago

Wangari Maathai Part 1

Wangari Maathai understood the vital connections between living things and the Earth; of local communities and the wider world. It is true that many …

1 year, 7 months ago

Marie Laveau, 2025

How much of the New Orleans Voodoo Queen's legend is myth? (Hint: A lot) Happy Mardi Gras and, more importantly, Happy Women's History Month!

Lea…

1 year, 8 months ago

Sojourner Truth 2025

Sojourner Truth was an enslaved woman, a freewoman, a preacher, a speaker, an abolitionist, and a women's rights advocate in the Civil War-era Unite…

1 year, 8 months ago

Georgia Gilmore

Georgia Gilmore was one of the unsung heroes of history during the Civil Rights movement in America; a prime example of how one person's contribution…

1 year, 8 months ago