Famous People You've Never Heard Of
Famous People You've Never Heard Of
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Fossil Mary - Elizabeth Blake talks about Mary Anning. With Brenda Longman.
Elizabeth Blake has written -and performs in "Fossil Mary", a new play celebrating the life and remarkable discoveries of Mary Anning, the pioneering fossil hunter who found her first dinosaur skeleton at the age of 12 and whose ski...
A Little Green Leaf - Will Carr & Kathleen O'Reilly talk about Odette Hallowes
The Leaf Collective are presenting their play A Little Green Leaf a this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is inspired by the life of Odette Hallowes (MBE, Legion d’Honneur, George Cross), Britain’s most highly decorated s...
The Last Bantam - Michael Hughes talks about the Bantam Battalions of the First World War
1914. The Great War rages. Britain recruits 30,000 Bantams, men between five-foot and five-foot-three to fight in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. 1918. A group of reporters visit the Front to write about the Bantams. One Bantam remain...
Bloody Mary's
Mary McKinnon was a businesswoman in the 19th century. Her business was a brothel and bar. One fateful day trouble broke out and Mary's demise was swift and merciless.Her story is an excellent illustration of how the law at t...
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The Last Dance: Will Visconti & Stella Kulagowski talk about Louise Weber - "La Goulue"
Louise Weber might have invented the Can Can. She was a huge star in Paris where she danced at the Moulin Rouge (in fact she was the poster girl for the place), inspired Toulouse -Lautrec and beguiled the Prince of Wales.Known by ...
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