Shakespeare's Sex Life
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
06/16/23
•48m
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The Bard’s work featured many references to sex and sexuality - some more obvious than others. But what does the work reveal about the sexuality of Shakespeare himself?
Despite being married with three kids to Anne Hathaway in the sleepy suburbs of Stratford-upon-Avon, there’s much to suggest he lived a more extravagant life during his visits to London.
Joining Kate today is author of The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare, Anna Beer, to unpick the hints and clues to the playwright’s sexuality that lay within his work.
Produced by Stuart Beckwith & Sophie Gee. Senior Producer Charlotte Long. Mixed by Tom Delargy.
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Anne Lister: The First Modern Lesbian?
June 13, 2023
•37m
It’s a rare thing to hear first hand the experiences of marginalised people in history. So often their voices are silenced, and their histories erased.
Which is why Anne Lister’s diaries, which tell us in intimate details what it was like to be a proud lesbian in 19th century Yorkshire, are such an important resource.
What was grobbling? What is Anne Lister’s legacy? And what do her coded diaries tell us about life as a lesbian during the industrial revolution? Join us today as we delve Betwixt the Sheets on the legacy of Anne Lister, with historian Anne Choma, the lead adviser on BBC One’s series of Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack, and author of ‘Gentleman Jack - The Real Anne Lister’.
Produced and edited by Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer Charlotte Long.
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Dick Pics: The History
June 20, 2023
•47m
Depictions of dicks have been an obsession in art for as long as art has been around, but the act of sending a real life image of ones penis is a cultural phenomenon all of its own.
Additionally, the implications of receiving a dick pic nowadays isn’t just the image itself, but the context of it being one that you maybe didn’t ask for - a form of sexual harassment and violence in and of itself.
So why do men send them? Is there an equal culture of a female equivalent? And what have images of dicks meant to different cultures historically?
Today Kate is joined by Andrea Waling, researcher and author of Exploring the Cultural Phenomenon of the Dick Pic, to look long and hard into all of these questions and more.
Senior Producer Charlotte Long. Edited and mixed by Tom Delargy.
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