Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 hours 33 minutes
Find out why singer songwriter Frank Turner has made a new podcast and a new album about twelve extraordinary women from history. And his mum.
Frank Turner tells the true story of the woman behind his song The Death of Dora Hand.
Discover the story behind Frank Turner’s song The Graveyard of the Outcast Dead. The Winchester Geese are a group of forgotten women who in medieval times worked in the brothels of Southwark, and were later buried in a mass grave for the "outcast ...
This episode is about the woman best known as Mata Hari, which in the Malay language means Eye of The Day.
Frank heads to one of his favourite haunts in Camden Town to find out more about former landlady Jinny Bingham.
Kassiani is one of only two women to have been written about from the Byzantine era, which is a somewhat forgotten about period in history. She was an abbess, poet and hymnographer whose songs are still sung in Greek Orthodox Churches today.
Frank is joined by poet, playwright and translator Sasha Dugdale to discuss the woman behind the song I Believed You, William Blake.
Frank meets with record producer Catherine J Marks at Assault and Battery studios where he recorded his album No Man's Land. The pair breakdown the recording of the song A Silent Key and the story of the woman who inspired it, Christa McAuliffe.
Huda Sha’arawi was a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. In 1923 she famously removed her full-face veil in front of a crowd at Cairo station, which sent a shockwave through the Arab world.