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187. Miss Piggy
Episode 187
From humble beginnings to international stardom, Miss Piggy made sure that she would get the life that she deserved! She is a beacon (not bacon) of s…
4 months, 1 week ago
186. Nellie Bly
Episode 186
Nellie Bly was a whirlwind in a new form of journalism - Stunt Girl Journalism! At 23 years old she spent 10 days in the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Bl…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
185. The Tuam 796
Episode 185
in 1975 two boys are playing out by the ruins of the old Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, ireland. They find a hole filled with very small bone…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Magdalene Laundries - From the Vault
The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were wor…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
184. Countess Constance Markievicz - Revolutionary Woman
Episode 184
Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gai…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
183. Gisèle Pelicot - To Hell and Back
Episode 183
Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when she was brought into a po…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
182. Fannie Lou Hamer
Episode 182
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember,
Hosted by Katie Charlw…
5 months ago
181. Katherine Johnson - NASA's Human Computer
Episode 181
Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and B…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
From the Vault - William Dorsey Swann- Queen of Drag
It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the bea…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
180. Robert Smalls Vs the Confederacy
Episode 180
Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to …
6 months ago