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The Invention of Heterosexuality
Episode 171
Sexuality is a funny thing. It's a social construct just as much as, say, virginity is.
We use words like heterosexuality and homosexuality because th…
2 years, 10 months ago
JFK Special 4. | How Jackie O Defined An Era
Episode 170
If the Kennedy's were America's first royal family, then Jackie was its queen.
She was a style icon who, alongside her husband and president JFK, symb…
2 years, 10 months ago
AIDS Epidemic: Life & Death On The Frontline
Episode 169
How do we understand something as huge as a global epidemic?
Similarly to Covid, the AIDS epidemic, which was most destructive in the 1980s and 90s, h…
2 years, 10 months ago
JFK Special 3. | The Sex Life of JFK
Episode 168
“If I don’t have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.”
That is what JFK allegedly told the UK prime minister, Harold MacMillan, after a m…
2 years, 10 months ago
Section 28: The Anti-Gay Law That Sparked A Movement
Episode 167
The 1980s have a lot to answer for - spandex, for one.
It also saw the first new anti-gay law in Britain for over a century.
Against the backdrop of th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Napoleon's Sex Life
Episode 166
Napoleon Bonaparte has been described in many way throughout history. Conquerer. Lover. Legend. Shrivelled Eel?
Perhaps you haven't heard the last des…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Goddesses of Sex and War
Episode 165
Sex and death are often intertwined: one is the start of creation, the other is the end.
And as we’ll learn in today’s episode, ancient battlefields w…
2 years, 11 months ago
JFK Special 2. | The Kennedy Sister They Tried To Hide
Episode 164
This November marks 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
His name is associated with history defining events, but it’s also conn…
2 years, 11 months ago
Love, Lust & Fighting in World War II
Episode 163
It can be hard to comprehend the magnitude of historical events, with World War Two a prime example of this.
By 1945, some 3 million British people ha…
2 years, 11 months ago
JFK Special 1. | The Irish Woman Who Built The Dynasty
Episode 162
This November marks 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
His name is associated with history defining events, but it’s also conn…
2 years, 11 months ago