Plutarch: The Delphi Priest Whose Parallel Lives Fed Shakespeare
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Plutarch was born before AD 50 in Chaeronea in Boeotia, into a long-established local family; he...
26 Okt 21min
Olaudah Equiano: Selling Glass Tumblers to Buy His Freedom for £40
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Olaudah Equiano was born around 1745 in Essaka, in what is now Nigeria, the youngest of six sons...
26 Okt 24min
Odette Hallowes: From a Wrong Envelope to the Gestapo Churchill Bluff
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Odette Hallowes, also known as Odette Sansom and Odette Churchill, was born in Amiens in 1912; h...
26 Okt 21min
Octavia Hill: Rent Collectors, the Green Belt and the National Trust
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Octavia Hill was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in 1838, granddaughter of a sanitary reformer,...
26 Okt 21min
Edith Cavell: The Nurse Who Smuggled 200 Men Out of Occupied Brussels
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edith Cavell was born in 1865 to a vicar in a Norfolk village and spent much of her twenties as ...
26 Okt 22min
Nathan Mayer Rothschild: Wellington's Paymaster and the Waterloo Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nathan Mayer Rothschild was born in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto in 1777, the third of five sons of...
26 Okt 24min
Mikhail Tal: The Magician from Riga's Sacrifices and 95-Game Streak
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mikhail Tal was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1936 to a Jewish family and had ectrodactyly, leaving h...
26 Okt 23min
Mayer Amschel Rothschild: From Frankfurt's Ghetto to the Five Arrows
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1743 or 1744 in Frankfurt's Judengasse, a ghetto locked at ...
26 Okt 23min
