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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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When Eglantyne Jebb is arrested for distributing leaflets in Trafalgar Square in 1919, she finds herself at the centre of a storm that will change the lives of children around the world.
Stories of bold voices, with brave ideas and the courage to stand alone. Historian Alex von Tunzelmann shines a light on remarkable people from across history.
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Series producer: Suniti Somaiya Written and presented by Alex von Tunzelmann Executive Producer: Paul Smith Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent. |
| 0:06.0 | In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy. |
| 0:13.0 | It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way. |
| 0:19.0 | How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond? |
| 0:24.8 | The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:35.6 | One overcast day in April 1919, a woman called Eglentine Jeb arrived at Trafalgar Square in London. |
| 0:42.9 | She had flaming red hair, which she pulled up into a bun at the back of her head. |
| 0:48.3 | She was tall, thin, pale she had, forget-me-not-blue eyes. |
| 0:53.0 | Trafalgar Square was a place where discontent often formed into protest. |
| 0:58.2 | It's where the Chartist demonstrated in 1848. |
| 1:01.5 | It's where the suffragettes would demonstrate. |
| 1:03.9 | Of course, the National Gallery is right there, |
| 1:05.6 | and that's where they slashed the Rokeby Venus in 1914. |
| 1:09.1 | Jeb was there with a purpose, too. |
| 1:11.2 | She handed out a leaflet to pass us by. |
| 1:13.8 | And it shows a photograph of a little child |
| 1:15.7 | with a massive head and a small body. |
| 1:19.0 | And she's actually being held, supported. |
| 1:21.2 | You can just see the hands of a nurse standing behind her, |
| 1:23.5 | lifting her because she cannot lift her own body weight. |
| 1:27.1 | The child had an intelligent face |
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