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The Z List Dead List
by Iszi Lawrence
Will you be remembered after you're dead? The Z List Dead List, a podcast about obscure people from History, hosted by Iszi Lawrence.
Episodes
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S12E06 ATA GIRL!
While researching Billie Swift Takes Flight Iszi discovered the story of Diana Barnato Walker - a world record setting pilot who flew Spitfires during the second world war. Diana was one of many female pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary that features in iszi's new children's book. The RAF…
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S12E05 Gertie The Dinosaur
When a dinosaur obsession works out. Victoria Coules has the best PHD going. She is researching representations of Paleontology in media. This means she gets to look at dinosaurs all day as well as study why they were depicted the way they were. As part of her research she has been studying…
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S12E04 A Sore-Footed Success. The life of Florence Price.
Were all composers white men with powdered wigs? The shocking truth is no, of course they weren't. Iszi speaks to Elizabeth de Brito of The Daffodil Perspective about the most famous of the non-male and non - white composers, Florence Price. Who I guess is still Z List unless you are very much…
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S12E03 Cry Hard with a Vision
I worry I may have been too positive about Margery Kempe. I do find her fascinating, not just because she offers a glimpse into life in the early 15th Century but because of how modern she feels as a character. She's the sort of person you'd expect to find on Dr Phil. Everything is about her, and...
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S12E02 The Story of Sarah Baartman
Kim Kardashian is now famously a billionaire, mostly from successful promoting and selling shapewear underwear which she promotes using her ass-sets. But was she the first person to commodify this particular body part and where has the idea of a large bottom being a sexual marker come from? Is it...
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S12E01 Maggotty Headed
'He was a shiftless person, roving and maggotty-headed, and sometimes a little better than crazed. And being exceedingly credulous would stuff his many letters with fooleries and misinformations which sometimes would guide him into paths of error.' - Anthony Wood on John Aubrey 31st August 1667...
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Terrible Lizards Trailer
No episode this month BECAUSE I've been working on another podcast. I know. It is all about dinosaurs and this is just a small taster. Go to www.terriblelizards.co.uk for more information. Thank you!
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S11E19 Dead Kean
Brill performance by Greg Jenner - author of the BRAND NEW book Dead Famous - and host of the You're Dead To Me Podcast. His performance is nearly as good as Edmund Kean. You know that hugely famous actor... you don't know Edmund Kean? Well listen up! For more information about The Z List Dead…
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BONUS EPISODE WITH BECHDEL CAST
Unusual episode where I guest on The Bechdel Cast where Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus put movies to the Bechdel Test. This episode was recorded live in London and is about The Favourite the story of the last few years of Queen Anne's reign and her love affair with Sarah Churchill. Olivia…
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S11E17 A Very British Spiderman
No violence, all charm, this podcast isn't about Marvel, but it is of a man who marvels at the smallest and least understood creatures. https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/englishhistorycreativewriting/staff/dr-zayneb-allak/ For more information about The Z List Dead List please visit www.iszi.com The...
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S11E16 I find this pig GUILTY
History is full of criminals, and some are not human. Here is a tale of animals of the past, some guilty, some innocent all judged by the LAW. And all too would have been forgotten without that great academic Edward Payson Evans. 1831-1917 Neil Denny is interview Editor of @littleatoms Radio…
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S11E15 The Serial Killer at No.45
If you live in Reading, you've probably heard of Amelia Dyer. She was the most prolific of all British serial killers and dumped the bodies in the canal. Iszi recently found her address, so took a short stroll down to Kensington Road and ponders whether this serial killer was a product of her own...
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S11 E14 Woe To The Conquered
The man who conquered all of Rome... although Rome at the time was the size of Deddington. Still it is nice to beat the Romans, despite their well trained* defence geese. In this episode iszi drunkenly chats to Stephen P Kershaw about one of the many characters in his enormous book. Barbarians...
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S11 E13 Troy Story - Heroes Gods and Amazons!
What does it take to be a hero? Nowadays rescuing others, not being a coward, or just standing up for you principles seems to be the key. In the Trojan war you could spend years in a tent sulking while everyone else fights simply because you were denied a sex slave, and STILL be considered a…
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S11 E12 The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece
The odds are never a problem if you own half the racers. This is a story of a populist who brought down his own people. Born into wealth and unrivalled privilege, at least this particular politician fought in the wars alongside his friends. It didn't stop him turning on them to save his skin, or...
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S11 E11 The Infinite Baker Kage
Accidentally predicting the future in her sci fi novels, Kage Baker's books set alight to the dork celebrator extraordinaire, comedian Jackie Kashian. In this episode we discuss the limits of fiction, and of shame. This podcast was 4 years in the making, all because iszi is an idiot. Featuring:...
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S11 E10 Real Men
Was Dr James Barry a pioneering transman or was she an insanely driven genius woman who sacrificed everything, even her own identity for her career? Iszi ponders the difficulty of trying to fit morden genders on people in the past. Iszi Lawrence is a presenter of BBC's Making History and The...
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S11E09 REJUVENATE!
Was Otto Overbeck an abject failure? A brilliant polymath? A Quack? An Abuser? Iszi and James Stark explore the curious career of a bizarre creature with an electric personality. Iszi Lawrenceis a presenter of BBC's Making History and The British Museum Membercast. www.iszi.comand on twitter:...
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S11E08 Wild Orange Whitehouse Man
Who knew laying cable could be so difficult? This isn't an episode about eating more fibre, it is about fibre optic's predecessor. The telegraph and how it is bloody difficult sending messages across the planet. Shouting might not work, but it is easier. Wildman Whitehouse...
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S11E07 Pouring Bees on Vikings
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And what could be more festive than talk of pious Christians finally overcoming their pagan occupiers by clever use of marrying enemy Earls, raising a kick-arse nephew and stealing a corpse in the name of patriotism. Featuring: Æthelflæd https://en.wikipedia.org/Æthelflæd Tom...
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S11E06 Her Name Wasn't Lola
She's Irish, Spanish, American and Mistress to the King of Bavaria married 3 times, Dancer, actress, lecturer, author and murderer? Iszi thinks so. Doug Segal isn't so sure. Meet Lola Montez AKA Eliza Rosanna Gilbert AKA Countess of Landsfeld... she has had more names than husbands. Massive...
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S11E05 Peach Baskets
This is not a very Z List episode if you are already a Basketball fan but I'm guessing, not many of us history nerds are... Steve Cross is tho! He explains the magic formula to inventing a world-popular sport. (And it is more than just a random number generator with a soap opera attached.. but…
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S11E04 The 19th Century Kim Kardashian
What has Pears Soap, a soprano, bell ringing orphans, a lesbian affair, ritual dowsing, litigation and a Monkey called Mr Titileehee have to do with the advancement of women's rights? Author, actor, comedian, hero Emma Kennedy will tell you from the BP Lecture Theatre at The British Museum and…
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S11E03 Tough As Old Boots with Alice Fraser
How do 6 stolen boots, a snake and drawing lots result in a man being eaten? Welcome to the horrible tale of Alexander Pearce 1790-1824. Who would eat humans... even when he strictly didn't 'need' to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pearce Alice Fraser is a comedian and podcaster (Tea…
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S11E02 The Terror of the Taxi Cab with Jo Caulfield
The cry Mother Prodgers! echoes around the streets. Cab drivers flee, leaving the stand empty but for Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers the nemesis of cabmen everywhere! Jo Caulfield takes the stage at The British Museum to tell you all about this famous litigant and seeker of justice: one cab…
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S11E01 What are you Like? with Mitch Benn
Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. So why was he deliberately written out of history? Mitch Benn explains! For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via iszi.com Wilhelm Reich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich Mitch Benn is a...
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S10 E9 A F*!#ing Genius with Irving Finkel
Think you're clever? Maybe you are: but are you a GENIUS? Irving Finkel doubts it. There is only one man this curator gives that label to and it is Edward Hincks... upstaged by the evil Rawlinson and with a blue plaque only dogs can see, it seems the only person left to champion him is a swearing...
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S10E08 The Typo That Won The War With Florence Schecter
Do you know the difference between a cryptogamist and a cryptogramist? No? Well it turns out that, during the Second World War, someone in the Ministry of Defence didn't either. For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via iszi.com Geoffrey Tandy...
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S10E07 The Mind Behind Einstein with Michael Conterio
the most important woman in the history of mathematics... possibly the most important PERSON. So why have you never heard of her? For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via iszi.com Emmy Noether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether Michael Conterio is a Cambridge based...
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S10E6 Ferguson's Gang with Lucy Porter
Peggy Pollard's life sounds so made up its ridiculous... borne to the upper classes, a genius scholar, criminally minded fundraiser, a brilliant seamstress and deeply devout catholic. Her life is full of the tales of Narnia and metallic pineapples. Can it be true? Lucy Porter tells her story at…
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S10E5 Victorian Poo with Paul Duncan McGarrity
London is full of it. Poo. Someone worked out that having it slosh about the streets wasn't ideal. And Paul Duncan McGarrity loves him. Learn how one man turned the thames into a giant flush, and what happens when you sink your boat right next to the place where the poo comes out. #worstdeathever...
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S10E04 Sin Eaters With Bob Mills
Bob Mills is one of Iszi's favourite people. He is an hilarious comedian, talented broadcaster and has the best Nanana in History. Prepare yourself for a story of religious tradition, freaky coincidence and probably the weirdest job in History... eating food off dead people. For any questions...
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S10E03 Deutero Paul With Adam Mastroianni
Iszi talks about her work on Making History, Music Hall, her mother in a wheelbarrow, The Other Winston Churchill (there were two) and Adam Mastroianni does a talk on Paul the Epistle and the other Paul the Epistle... if there was one... which there might have been. Yes. For any questions...
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S10E02 The Real Rights of Man with Ben Alsop
What happens if you are outshone by your contemporaries. While Thomas Paine was busy changing the world, another man, also called Thomas was trying to do the same. Both men believed in Liberty at a time of American rebellion and guillotines in France. However one is held up to this day as one of...
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S10E01 Drinking From Skulls With Paul Sinha
2018 brings a new format to the Z List Dead List - the regular episode will appear as usual (usually the third thursday of the month) but iszi is hoping to put out a mini episode at the start of the month too. This is the first, it includes a performance by star of The Chase, Paul Sinha...
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S09E05 Worm Doctors and Monkey Glands
Struggling in the bedroom? Would some Monkey Glands help? Comedian Bethany Black on the surgical implant business of pre war Europe.. Plus! Ever had a worm living inside you? Want it taken out? Look no further than the amazing Worm Doctor, John Gardner- a physician so skilled he removed a worm...
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S09E4 The Witch of UCL
Who really won the first world war? The Z List Dead List Halloweeeeen episode usually features a witch, and this episode is no exception. Brenna Hassett is yet to don her pointed hat, she is however an archaeologist with a passion for the talented and the strange women of the past. One such er,...
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S09E3 A Live Recording of the Show!
Special Episode - listen to a live recording of the Z List Dead List. Find out who invented the Ultramarathon... before the Marathon! Who survived a suicide pact with Maths, and who was buried twice? Iszi Lawrence Andy Riley, Harry Househam and Paul Duncan Mcgarrity bring you over an hour of...
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S09E02 Daughter of God
Curing people with magic tea bags, preparing Jesus's house and ensuite shower, eating apples in the actual garden of eden... welcome to the most British of all religious sects and the crazy story of their immortal cult leader, Mabel Barltrop (deceased). Iszi takes a tour of the Panacea Museum…
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S09E1 Broads Abroad
Which intrepid spinster was best buddies with Rudyard Kipling and fought off hungry leopards? Which woman judo chopped a Nazi to death? John Lloyd (Creator and Producer of Qi) on Mary Kingsley, a British Woman who explored Africa in a black silk frock. Iszi interviews Alice Fraser on the…
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S08E6 Sunken Treasure
Fancy a change of career? Zoe Lyons has a suggestion. How about digging a trench in your garden, filling it with water and lying down submerged in a barrel for half an hour? Sound stupid? Well it is a surefire way of becoming filthy rich in the 18th century. So hold your breath while we chat...
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S08E5 The Price Isn't Right
Find out MORE about the life of our favourite Pop Star Ghost Hunter, Harry Price. Including the world's more famous goat, the devil's favourite notebook, and the last person to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735... Thanks for listening - if you can, please donate, but you can also help...
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S08E4 Mislaid Comedy Heroes
Why did King Harold get shot in the Eye? Who was the first Accident and Emergency started for? What was a key trigger for Anti Apartheid? Grab a chair and listen to the Andre Vincent reveal the Mislaid Comedy Heroes of the past... and how at the route of every mystery, a comedian is unearthed....
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S08 E3 Greeks On The Moon
Natalie Haynes loves her Greek on the attic side of difficulty, she asks the audience of the British Museum 'when did man first aspire to set foot on the moon?' And exactly what did he expected to find there? Meet the Douglas Adams of the first century... and you may actually already know one of...
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S08E2 Sex God
The title of Sex God gets bandied around quite a bit these days, as Carrie Quinlain knows all too well. But there can only be one true sex god. How he got to be a god is a little more disturbing. But what with over 2000 statues of his perfect pecs and rosebud lips, such modern concerns are…
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S08E1 The Richest Man Who Ever Lived
Who was the richest man who ever lived? How rich are we talking? 40 Donald Trumps?! Ahir Shah has the lowdown on the man who was so rich he was personally responsible for crashing an economy. Also Alex farrow on what connects student parties to nazi germany. The weird origins of Jaegermeister and...
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S07E6 Have Briefcase Will Travel
Who was the most accident prone explorer in History? Drinking out of puddles and carrying a briefcase in a jungle, Sebastian Snow was one of the most famous British Explorers in his lifetime. Dan Schreiber (No such thing as the news/Qi elf) talks about his love letters to Brian Blessed, playing...
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S07E5 The Better Boudicca
How do you pronounce Boudicca? Doesn't matter, she wasn't as crafty as the other Queen ruling at the same time. Who got Rome in between her and her love life. Find out about building Iron Age Forts... with and without lego... about diplomacy, death, divorce and... WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE COURT…
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S07E4 Inglorious Badasses
As Britain is divided after the Brexit referendum iszi explores nationalism, identity and unity... ok.. well... hanging out in Cuba and forced circumcision. Pete Johansson is tub thumping for his not-so-lister while Hayden Cohen's relationship with a 2100 year old warrior is a bit more complex....
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S07E3 Intellectual Property Wrongs
Ever get annoyed someone stole your idea? What if no one found out about it until decades after you died? This is a story of an unknown feminist, an inventor and a brilliant campaigner for social equality... and if you think you don't know her, I suspect most of you will have something she made…
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Will you be remembered after you're dead? The Z List Dead List, a podcast about obscure people from History, hosted by Iszi Lawrence.
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