Dead Ladies Show Podcast

Episode 70 - Phoolan Devi

*** IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode’s Dead Lady had a very challenging existence, particularly when she was younger, and her story is marked by multiple incidents of violence and sexual abuse. Please use caution when listening ***   In this...

Episode 69 - Sister Mary Ignatius Davies

Episode 69 - Sister Mary Ignatius Davies   Welcome to Season Seven!   In this episode, we bring you…the woman known as the “Mother Theresa of Reggae!   Sister Mary Ignatius, a white Jamaican Catholic nun dedicated her life to the...

Guest Episode from Her Half of History - Ellen Craft, a First-Class Escape

We're working on our next season, which starts in March! So, in this bonus show, we're sharing a guest episode from the podcast Her Half of History.  Her Half of History covers women’s history in short episodes that fit into a series, like...

Episode 68 - June Tarpé Mills

In this episode, the last of Season Six, we bring you a show live from ! DLS-ers Susan Stone and Katy Derbyshire joined the city’s fine and friendly podcasters at the yearly event in front of a small but perfectly formed audience.   ...

Episode 67 - Amrita Sher-Gil

In this episode, we hear once again from our friends at Dead Ladies NYC.  Nafisa Ferdous presents Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death....

Episode 66 - Doreen Massey

In this episode, we encounter the show’s very first featured geographer.  UK-born Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place and power, was compassionate, politically active, and hopeful.  ...

Episode 65 - Romy Schneider

In this episode, we bring you the story of an actress whose off-screen life was as dramatic and tragic as many of the characters she portrayed. Born in Vienna in 1938, Romy Schneider was said to have the star power of Greta Garbo or Marilyn...

Episode 64 - Hildegard Knef

  In this episode, DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire has the story of a deutsche Diva — an iconic German actress and singer and best-selling author known for her glamour and scandal, her smoky voice and sweeping false eyelashes. Hildegard Knef was...

Episode 63 — Djuna Barnes

In this episode, translator Laura Radosh introduces us to the fascinating and troubled writer Djuna Barnes.  The journalist, novelist, and artist mixed with everyone from James Joyce to Peggy Guggenheim, and was at the center of Bohemian life in...

Episode 62 - Leonor Fini

Our story for this episode comes from our friends at the Dead Ladies Show NYC, which is organized and hosted by Molly O’Laughlin Kemper with Sheila Enright.  Photographer, professional eccentric and guinea pig lover JR Pepper tells the tale of...