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It's me, Kate Listern, you are listening to Bertwixter Sheeds.

Hello and welcome back.

But before we can proceed together, I have to tell you from now until the day the show gets cancelled. This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adult things in an adulty way covering a range of subjects and you should be an adult too. I don't know why we have to keep telling you that. I mean, really, what would you be listening to? I mean, really, why would you be listening to a podcast called Betwixt the Sheets, the History of Sex,andal in society if you weren't expecting a serious bucket of source to be assailing your ear holes,

but never mind, let's get on with it.

Eight foot tall, translucent yellow skin pulled taut over the body, accentuating the muscles and the blood vessels beneath.

His eyes are watery but somehow glowing and his face is half hidden beneath a mop of long black hair.

I mean, I think I've dated worse.

That is how the monster built by Frankenstein is described by Mary Shelley.

And not the choice made in the latest movie adaptation where the monster is played by Jacob

Alodi, who is fit as fuck. But never mind, we press on. The original wasn't. But what do we know

about Mary Shelley? Who was the young girl who came up with such a

bonkers and enduring creation? Well, her life had every bit as much drama as anything she put

on the page, so let's find out more.

Music Hello and welcome back to betwixt the Sheets, the History of Sex Scandal and Society, with me, Kate Lister.

Mary Shelley is a name that is now part of the annals of horror history.

She is iconic, and a woman persistently dogged by rumours and scandal and general naughtiness so she's

a perfect subject for this particular podcast. For example, did she really lose her virginity on her

mother's grave? What an odd thing to do? What's wrong with round the back of the bike sheds like

the rest of us, Mary? Well today I'm joined by none other than Fiona Sampson, author of loads of books,

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