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162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III
Episode 162
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!
Welcome to the final installment in the Josephine Baker Saga: Death of a Showgirl. She lived a full life, fro…
10 months ago
161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II
Episode 161
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!
Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Josephine …
10 months, 1 week ago
160. Josephine Baker - Part I
Episode 160
Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon
Episode 159
Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun
Episode 158
Burlesque's beginnings blossomed out of La Belle Époque, the interwar period between the Franco-Prussian war and WW1. An era where creativity and the…
11 months ago
157. The Battle of Castle Itter
Episode 157
The Battle of Castle Itter has to be one of the weirdest battle of the Second World War, it's the SS against Wermacht, the Austrian Resistance, US tr…
11 months, 1 week ago
156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów
Episode 156
Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Steven…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
155. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Episode 155
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
154. Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz
Episode 154
Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the o…
1 year ago
153. Zoot Suit Riots
Episode 153
The Zoot Suit Riot wasn't actually a riot, don't let the name fool you, it is an often overlooked attack on ethnic minorities in Los Angeles which be…
1 year ago