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The History of Periods
Episode 90
‘It’s my time of the month’, ‘the painters are in’, ‘aunt flo is visiting’, or a simple ‘I’m on the rag’
Periods are a fact of life for so many people…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Real Bridgerton
Episode 89
The first series of Bridgerton broke viewership records and became the biggest series on Netflix ever when it first came out. But a raunchy period dr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Wedding Dresses
Episode 88
In the UK, just over half of people above the age of 16 are married. Whether in a registry office, a place of worship or a remote beach somewhere sun…
3 years, 7 months ago
Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare
Episode 87
Clear soup, Irish stew and steamed puddings - this was the war work of Georgina Landemare, the Churchills’ longest-serving cook.
Throughout the war ye…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hag Horror: Older Women in Film
Episode 86
Why are women over the age of 50 so often cast as terrifying, decaying, manipulative people in Hollywood? When did this start? And how might it have …
3 years, 7 months ago
Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?
Episode 85
She was a woman of unparalleled power, descended from Julius Caesar and Augustus. But how did she get there, whilst most of the rest of her family we…
3 years, 8 months ago
Food, Sin & Shame
Episode 84
Why might a medieval nun drink the pus of an ill patient? Where does ‘fishy Friday’ come from? And what does all of this have to do with religion?
Tod…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Real Casanova
Episode 83
Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dictionary to describe someone who has a reputation …
3 years, 8 months ago
Marie Stopes: Birth Control & Eugenics
Episode 82
Why would someone disown their son over a pair of glasses? How could an unmarried woman in 1918 have published a book about sexual pleasure? And what…
3 years, 8 months ago
Prison Plastic Surgery
Episode 81
Facelifts, liposuction and nose jobs: since the mid 20th century people have saved up to have their faces and bodies transformed into their dreams.
Bu…
3 years, 8 months ago