The 3 Best Demons and Dames Podcast Episodes
1) Hedy Lamarr: Beauty & The Brain
1942, America. Screen siren Hedy Lamarr has it all. Beauty, brains and a blueprint for a communications device that might change the course of the war. But no one is taking her seriously. In this ep...Show More
2) Mata Hari: Performance Artist
France, 1917. The formerly-feted ‘exotic dancer’, Mata Hari, is accused of being a double agent. She certainly met all the femme fatale touchpoints for a nation seeking a scapegoat. But was she a spy...Show More
3) Empress Theodora: Demoness or Saint?
Constantinople, 527 AD. Mime/Burlesque Actress and influential Christian Theodora is crowned Empress of the [Eastern] Roman Empire. Delve into this real-life Cinderella story of an incredible women wh...Show More
4) Woman, Captain, Rebel with Margaret Willson
Sarah and Ash are joined by anthropologist and author Margaret Willson, who shares the story of Thurídur Einarsdóttir. Living in Iceland in the 1800s, Captain Thurídur was a famous female sea captain ...Show More
5) Guest Episode on Rigoberta Menchú
"Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of...Show More
6) Madeleine Smith: Murder She Wrote
“Emile, for god’s sake do not send my letters to papa. It will be an open to rupture. I will leave the house. I will die...” So wrote Madeleine Smith to her erstwhile and soon-to-be-deceased lover Emi...Show More
7) Maria Бочкарёва & the Battalion of Death
"Day and night my imagination carried me to the fields of battle, and my ears rang with the groans of my wounded brethren. The spirit of sacrifice took possession of me. My country called me. An irres...Show More
8) Mary Toft: Mother of Rabbits
“From Guildford comes a strange, but well attested piece of News. That a poor Woman who lives at Godalmin, near that Town, who has an Husband and two Children now living with her was about a Month pas...Show More
9) Introducing Demons & Dames
Ashley Mauritzen and Sarah Worley-Hill introduce their Podcast and explain what all the fuss is about. Are you excited? We can hardly contain ourselves. Originally aired November 2019
10) Guest Episode on Rigoberta Menchú
"Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of...Show More