Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden, it feels lovely and sunny, I feel like I'm on holiday

for Monest, which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you.

This episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Tufael Ahmed, author

of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating

life after their mother's death. They're all living separate lives trying to live

up to their last promises they each made to their mother.

Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family and forces the siblings

back into each other's lives. Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying

all the wrong things. Gosh, it feels familiar. I'll leave it at that for now, it's a really

good read. The novel is available at Amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. I love it when

they do a little URL for us. Those with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can read at no additional

extra cost. That's www.amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. Better Left Unsaid is available

20th September in e-book, paperbook and audiobook editions. Mmm, get involved.

Hello, welcome to part two of Homo sapiens. We're talking an LGBT history month, the pink

pound, the history of the pink pound, with Justin Benchry. If you haven't heard part

one, go back, you've got loads of good stuff at the beginning.

When you were talking about Oscar Wilde and the trials, one of the first instances of

the pink pound, tell me a bit more about that, the way people were dressed became a thing.

I think clothes have always been, have often been a marker of difference. We can see that

in queer history throughout the 20th century. Certainly, I use the example of the use of

fashion or the knowledge that fashion could be a signal and could be compromising because

of the Oscar Wilde trials in the middle of the 1890s, but this continues throughout the

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