Queer histories
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Morgan M Page, Jana Funke & Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and what it means to have to "prove" your identity today in today's legal world. Shahidha Bari presents.
Morgan M Page is a writer, performance + video artist, and trans historian whose podcast is called One From The Vaults Jana Funke teaches Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter Senthorum Raj teaches at Keele University School of Law.
In the Free Thinking archives you can find programmes Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Sappho https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn522 Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1f Censorship and Sex Naomi Wolf on John Addington Symonds and Sarah Parker on Michael Field https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k4 HD and Bryher are discussed, alongside Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees in this episode Pioneering Women: academics and classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g Tom Smith explores the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00061m5 Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b7r7
Production team Caitlin Benedict & Alex Mansfield
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, you're listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast with me Shah Heide Abari. |
| 0:36.4 | We'll be marking LGBTQ Plus History Month |
| 0:39.3 | by finding out about forgotten queer icons, including James Barry, military surgeon and |
| 0:45.6 | infamous lady killer, who once had a ferocious argument with Florence Nightingale. |
| 0:50.3 | The Blaggard. Join us after this. |
| 0:52.9 | An American capitalist, a Russian tax advisor and a breathtaking heist. |
| 0:58.8 | You're saying fraudsters have stolen more than quarter of a billion dollars from the Russian state. |
| 1:04.2 | Based on a true story, a musical about doing the right thing at any cost. |
| 1:09.8 | Mr. McNitsky, if we changed our mind. |
| 1:13.2 | Stand up and fight for justice, stand up for the law. |
| 1:16.5 | If we don't stand for this, then what is it we're for? |
| 1:20.1 | Magnitsky, the musical, by Johnny Flynn and Robert Hudson on BBC Radio 3. |
| 1:25.6 | Why are you telling my story? |
| 1:27.1 | Because you were unbreakable. Available now on BBC Radio 3. Why are you telling my story? Because you were unbreakable. |
| 1:29.9 | Available now on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:34.2 | Hello, we'll be celebrating LGBTQ Plus History Month in the UK this February. |
| 1:40.1 | But how do we tell that history when the people who have lived queer lives were so often |
| 1:45.6 | compelled to hide, obscure and deny their experiences? In the UK, homosexuality was partially |
| 1:52.7 | decriminalised in 1967. This is what the media discussions sounded like before that. |
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