Hello and welcome to an Exploring Building History podcast. My name is Mary Chisholm and this podcast is a summary of the life and work of the Tudor clergyman William Harrison. He was also an historian, topographer and writer. His main work being The Description of England, initially published in 1577. You can find out more information at www.exploringbuildinghistory.co.uk
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The Dead Ladies Show presents the stories of amazing women from history told live on stage in Berlin and beyond. Inspiring, irreverent, and entertaining! @deadladiesshow on Instagram and Twitter. Facebook: thedeadladiesshow.
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There’s Too Many Podcasts, a tongue in cheek look at the podcasting world, is hosted by Chris Schieman. TTMP goes behind the scenes with the people who create engaging content, from the unknown podcasts that you should be listening to, to the podcasts you can’t quit. Join Chris on his mission to give a platform to up-and-coming podcasts, and listen to industry experts describe the process for creating some of the world’s most popular podcasts. Learn more about the podcast, and submit your gu ...
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In this episode, Rachel Pronger of the Invisible Women film collective brings us the story of iconoclastic Czech film multi-talent Ester Krumbachová. Ester was a screen writer, costume and stage designer, author, and film director. Her work was quirky, colorful, and political, lashing out at patriarchy and authoritarianism. She had a defining influ…
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In this episode, we’re live at PodFest Berlin! DLS co-founders Katy Derbyshire and Florian Duijsens do the introducing, while DLSP Producer Susan Stone tells us about the amazing life of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress (in 1968). Four years later, Shirley was the first Black person and the first woman t…
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It's just me this week kids! I'm taking a look back, on the first season of There's Too Many Podcasts! What went right? What went wrong? If you're new to this podcast, this is a great starting point for season one, with a shout out to all the wonderful guests who I was lucky enough to chat with all season long. Thanks to everyone who gave this podc…
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Dr. Carla Marie Manly - Imperfect Love
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On the season finale of There's Too Many Podcasts! I'm please to host Dr. Carla Marie Manly. Dr. Carla hosts Imperfect Love, a podcast that explores the messy and imperfect road of life. Today's topic is on mental health, with a disclaimer at the start to anyone who suffers from mental health. Dr. Carla and I discuss the specifics of attachment the…
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In this episode we run off to New York to get a post-Olympic sports fix! Writer and editor Sheila Enright-- who is both a former track and field runner and co-host of Dead Ladies NYC--brings us the story of American gold medallist Wilma Rudolph. Born into a family of 22 children in segregated Tennessee, Wilma Rudolph was diagnosed with polio at a y…
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The calm voice of Celeste Renee joins me this week for a very enlightening chat on communication. Her podcast, A Better Way to Say, meshes communication with enlightenment in a way that I find completely enchanting. As a broadcaster for over 20 years, I can say Celeste's teachings on how to communicate effectively taught this old dog some new trick…
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In this episode of our podcast, DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire brings us the story of Therese Giehse, a German actor, pacifist and exile known for founding an anti-Nazi cabaret (which, really, we could all get behind these days). Therese had artistic and other adventures with her lover Erika Mann (daughter of Thomas Mann), was photographed by Annem…
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This week the lovely and motherly Lynn Layfield joins me to talk about her podcast, Decision Diaries. Decision Diaries is a light-hearted look at the decisions we make, why we make them, the results/consequences. As Lynn's own website points out, it's real, raw, and slightly inappropriate. I feel like I kept that theme going in our chat!…
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Joe Mares, a veteran of the gaming industry joins me this week to talk about his podcast, Harbinger of Fun. Joe's fascinating life is a great example of overcoming our anxieties, both internally and externally, to follow our true calling. In his podcast, he explores the fun of life, and what makes it so! I enjoyed exploring with him the idea of wha…
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Jason Sherman, of Strap on Your Boots, joins me this week for a chat about entrepreneurship. I would describe Jason as an accomplished techie. I felt a good connection with him because of our similar paths. As a small business owner myself, I can tell you that it is great fun, but hard (sometimes frustrating) work. In this episode Jason and I discu…
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Chrisi Talyn Saje - Madison on the Air
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Chrisi Talyn Saje, a.k.a. "Madison on the Air" joins me this week to talk about her very cool and unique idea. Madison on the Air is one of the funniest ideas I've come across. The character, Madison, is a modern day gal who's transported back in time into old time radio shows. I happen to love old time radio shows, and Chrisi's modern spin on thes…
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In this episode, DLS co-founder Florian Duijsens introduces us to Dame Miriam Rothschild, a British zoologist, entomologist, and botanist. Coming from a wealthy family (yes, those Rothschilds) with an active interest in nature, she started collecting ladybirds and caterpillars and taking a tame quail to bed with her at the age of four. During a sti…
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Katie Mack - International Human Rights Art Movement
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The delightful and engaging Katie Mack joins me this week for a quick therapy session, followed by a discussion of the work of the International Human Rights Art Movement. IHRAM is a wonderful organization that is doing its part to amplify the work of artists living in areas where doing what they do, and being who they are, can mean imprisonment or…
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Mike Chisholm - The Letterman Podcast
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Welcome to the first episode of There's Too Many Podcasts! A Podcast About Podcasts. For my first interview, I could think of no one better than my new friend Mike Chisholm. Mike hosts the wildly entertaining The Letterman Podcast, about our mutual idol, David Letterman. We chat about our love of all things "Dave" and a little about life in general…
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In this episode, we take a jaunt to New York to find out about the talented and difficult Patricia Highsmith. You might know one of her most notorious characters, Tom Ripley, from your Netflix queue (the new series Ripley) or via one of the many films based on what might be Highsmith’s best-known novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Highsmith wrote seve…
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*** IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode’s Dead Lady had a very challenging existence, particularly when she was younger, and her story is marked by multiple incidents of violence and sexual abuse. Please use caution when listening *** In this episode, we join forces with the Ms Informed podcast to bring you the story of Phoolan Devi. Known as “India’s Ban…
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Episode 69 - Sister Mary Ignatius Davies
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Welcome to Season Seven! In this episode, we bring you…the woman known as the “Mother Theresa of Reggae! Sister Mary Ignatius, a white Jamaican Catholic nun dedicated her life to the Alpha Boys’ School in Kingston, where she taught football, cricket, boxing, table tennis and dominoes – but most importantly, music. A lover of jazz and blues, she ins…
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Guest Episode from Her Half of History - Ellen Craft, a First-Class Escape
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We're working on our next season, which starts in March! So, in this bonus show, we're sharing a guest episode from the podcast Her Half of History. Her Half of History covers women’s history in short episodes that fit into a series, like Women Who Seized Power, Women Who Escaped Slavery, and Women in Espionage. Host Lori Davis also likes to delve …
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In this episode, the last of Season Six, we bring you a show live from PodFest Berlin! DLS-ers Susan Stone and Katy Derbyshire joined the city’s fine and friendly podcasters at the yearly event in front of a small but perfectly formed audience. From that event, producer Susan brings us the fascinating story of June Tarpé Mills, a comics pioneer and…
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In this episode, we hear once again from our friends at Dead Ladies NYC. Nafisa Ferdous presents Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death. Sher-Gil was an incredibly charismatic non-conformist whose work reframed discussions on art and feminism, …
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In this episode, we encounter the show’s very first featured geographer. UK-born Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place and power, was compassionate, politically active, and hopeful. She worked in academia and as a public intellectual, including at British early-morning TV fans’ beloved Open Unive…
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In this episode, we bring you the story of an actress whose off-screen life was as dramatic and tragic as many of the characters she portrayed. Born in Vienna in 1938, Romy Schneider was said to have the star power of Greta Garbo or Marilyn Monroe. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Sissi, aka Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who she embod…
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In this episode, DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire has the story of a deutsche Diva — an iconic German actress and singer and best-selling author known for her glamour and scandal, her smoky voice and sweeping false eyelashes. Hildegard Knef was also an unreliable narrator and a serial fabulator who was alternately loved and hated in her homeland. Pro…
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In this episode, translator Laura Radosh introduces us to the fascinating and troubled writer Djuna Barnes. The journalist, novelist, and artist mixed with everyone from James Joyce to Peggy Guggenheim, and was at the center of Bohemian life in 1920s New York and Paris, though perhaps not quite as much as she would like. Best known (if at all) for …
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Our story for this episode comes from our friends at the Dead Ladies Show NYC, which is organized and hosted by Molly O’Laughlin Kemper with Sheila Enright. Photographer, professional eccentric and guinea pig lover JR Pepper tells the tale of artist Leonor Fini, a glamorous, passionate iconoclast (and cat lover) with a brilliant creative mind who w…
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Dead Ladies Show Podcast Episode 61 - Emmy Noether For this episode, we bring back the presenter who appeared in our very first podcast episode, writer and translator Karen Margolis. Drawing from her own history in higher mathematics, Karen ably tells the tale of Germany’s Emmy Noether, who developed key theorems in theoretical physics and made imp…
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In this episode, we’re going to hear about woman who is sometimes called a sculptress of sound — “the unsung heroine of British electronic music” — Delia Derbyshire, ably presented by our very own DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire. A working-class girl from Coventry, England, Delia studied music and mathematics, and went on to work at the BBC’s Radiop…
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Dead Ladies Show Podcast - Berenice Abbott Welcome to our first podcast of 2023! In this episode, we zoom in on photographer Berenice Abbott. This American artist has a bit of a six-degrees-of separation going on with a number of our previous Dead Ladies, including Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven and Emma Goldman. As told by DLS co-founder Florian…
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Episode 58 — Ruth Asawa It’s our final podcast of 2022! DLS co-founders Florian Duijsens and Katy Derbyshire join producer Susan Stone to toast the holiday season, chat about this year’s good news in Dead Ladies, and to introduce our featured Dead Lady, artist Ruth Asawa. Born to Japanese parents on a farm in California, Ruth Asawa first developed …
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To kick off Season 6 of the Dead Ladies Show Podcast, writer Leon Craig brings us the story of award-winning English author Angela Carter. Known for her feminist, gothic and erotic sensibilities and re-inventing folk and fairy tales for her now seminal collection The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s life had quite a few plot twists of its own. In her 51 ye…
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