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Ian Rickson on the Children’s Hour

Posted on: March 19th, 2011 by History Month
>The director Ian Rickson talks to Carole Woddis about his hit West End production of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), which stars Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in a play that was scandalous on its first outing in 1934, and continues to be relevant. Recorded at Graeae....
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Gay Pride and Prejudice in Kenya

Posted on: June 17th, 2010 by History Month
>Ishmael, an openly gay Kenyan man living in the small coastal town of Mtwapa, just north of Mombasa, says that many gay men have come to live here, attracted by its open-minded and liberal atmosphere. But this image of the town has been overshadowed by an increasingly vocal and...
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Middle C: A Year-Long Transition from Woman to Man

Posted on: May 11th, 2010 by History Month
>The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents the first person documentary Middle C, in which Tristan R. Whiston chronicles his year-long gender transition from woman to man – through the change in his singing voice. Tristan first performed as solo soprano at the age of six. Years of hard work led...
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Writing the Century – “Once Upon a Time”

Posted on: April 20th, 2010 by History Month
>The BBC Radio 4 series that explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with “Once Upon A Time” by Amanda Whittington – a “touching, coming of age drama set in 1979 based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire...
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An Officer and a Gentle Woman: The Sex-change Aristocrat

Posted on: November 11th, 2009 by History Month
>He led a life of privilege — game hunter, Guardsman and gentleman farmer. But Rhodri Davies had only one desire: to be a woman. So he changed his gender, lost his family, and found a new career as a nurse. Read the full article in The Times here. Miranda...
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Radio Drama: Turing’s Test

Posted on: October 16th, 2009 by History Month
>History Boys and Desperate Romantics star Samuel Barnett plays Second World War Enigma code breaker Alan Turing in a new radio drama part of a pioneering experiment between The Independent and award-winning production company Made in Manchester (MIM). Turing’s Test is a fictional take on what might have been...
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‘Just Plain Sense’ Interviews

Posted on: August 16th, 2009 by History Month
>A selection of recent LGBT-themed interviews of note in Christine Burn’s podcast, Just Plain Sense. - Half an Hour with Peter Tatchell - Adopting – A trans perspective - Half an Hour with Dr Stuart Lorimer - Fascinating Adele: Part One and Part Two
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Stonewall Riots Remembered

Posted on: June 28th, 2009 by History Month
>It is 40 years today since the Stonewall Riots took place. Jim Fouratt, later founder of the Gay Liberation Front, who was there, and Kenneth Partridge, who was on the London gay scene at the time, discuss the lasting significance of the riots with Evan Davies on Thursday’s Today...
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Survey

Posted on: June 19th, 2008 by History Month
>The largest ever European survey into lesbian and bisexual women’s health, has just been released. The report, carried out by Stonewall and De Montfort University, reveals deeply disturbing levels of self-harm, substance abuse and exclusion from routine testing for cervical cancer. Prescription for Change, a survey of 6,000 lesbian...
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Losing Orton in the Archives

Posted on: May 10th, 2008 by History Month
>The tangled history of the papers of the playwright Joe Orton is unwoven by Dr. Matt Cook who reveals the extraordinary sources that survive on the writer’s life and the perhaps even more extraordinary ones that remain stubbornly missing. This recording is available here (right to save the file)...
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Half an Hour with Sue Sanders

Posted on: May 1st, 2008 by History Month
>Sue Sanders speaking at the Pre-launch of LGBT History Month 2008 at the Royal Courts of Justice – 26 November 2007 In the 1970’s school teachers could be dismissed if it became known that they were Gay or Lesbian. As a young lesbian teacher in those days Sue Sanders...
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Calpernia Addams: Widowed by Hate

Posted on: April 10th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>Ten years ago, Private Barry Winchell’s captivation for a young and beautiful show girl from Nashville Tennessee cost him his life. Two fellow soldiers decided that dating a trans woman made him gay and a candidate for summary execution in his sleep. US media and anti-hate crime campaigners decided...
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Interview with Trans Pioneer Mark Rees

Posted on: February 27th, 2008 by History Month
>Trans campaigner Christine Burns has been producing podcasts about trans people and events for the last eighteen months. Some of her recordings are designed to allow people to hear campaigning events and speeches which they couldn’t catch in person; on other occasions she features notable trans community figures with...
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Transexuals in Iran (updated)

Posted on: February 26th, 2008 by History Month 5 Comments
>BBC Two documentary explores why so many Iranians undergo sex change operations. Although homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in Iran, more sex change operations are carried out there than any other nation in the world apart from Thailand, with the government providing up to half the cost...
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Truman Capote Reads “A Christmas Memory”

Posted on: December 31st, 2007 by History Month
>Below is a link to a recording of Truman Capote reading his short story A Christmas Memory. It shows a very different Truman Capote from the one depicted in the film Capote; a sensitive and caring Capote; the one who wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms and The Grass Harp....
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The Interview: Graeme Le Saux

Posted on: December 22nd, 2007 by History Month
>Graeme Le Saux is a footballer who had a successful career playing for top club Chelsea and representing England — but he never felt like he fitted in to the British football culture. He wasn’t keen on getting drunk or hanging out with his team-mates and he ended up...
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Camden Community Radio Reports on the Month

Posted on: November 19th, 2007 by History Month
>In February 2007, the Camden LGBT Forum organised an event for almost every day of the month. Ben Cooper of the Camden Community Radio went along to the official launch of History Month in Camden, “Out in Camden 3″, on 12 February. There he met up with the organisers...
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Noel Coward Play Rediscovered

Posted on: October 11th, 2007 by History Month
>85 years after it was written, The Better Half, a one act play e by Noel Coward, has been rediscovered in the archive of the British Library. The play, despite its suggestions that women had sexual feelings, had escaped the Lord Chamberlain’s censure and had been performed in 1922,...
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Maupin on Bookclub on Radio 4

Posted on: September 1st, 2007 by History Month
>The September edition of BBC Radio 4′s Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie will be discussing Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, the first in a serie of six books which began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the mid-70s. Maupin created a utopian community that...
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Consenting Adults

Posted on: August 29th, 2007 by History Month
>The 75-minute special is set against the deliberations of the Wolfenden Committee, established by the then Home Secretary to look into the law relating to Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in September 1954. Consenting Adults follows the diverse members of the committee as they struggle towards their radical conclusions. Its...
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Andy Warhol in Edinburgh

Posted on: August 28th, 2007 by History Month
>Andy Warhol died on 22 February 1987. To mark the twentieth anniversary of his death, the National Gallery of Scotland is holding the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work ever shown in Scotland. Andy Warhol, A Celebration of Life… and Death aims to show how a life/death duality...
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John Waters on BBC Radio 4

Posted on: August 23rd, 2007 by History Month
>On Friday 24 August, veteran film director, John Waters, will be interviewed on BBC Radio 4′s Film Programme. The Programme reviews the latest cinema and DVD releases and films on TV. John Waters is a gay film director, author and visual artist famous for pushing the boundaries of conventional...

Tomboys and Bachelor Girls

Posted on: August 17th, 2007 by History Month
>In the late 1950’s Josie Pickering was leading a double life. By day she was a ‘proper’ 1950’s housewife – married and looking after her young children. But at night she visited the lesbian bars and clubs of Manchester. Eventually she left her husband for another woman. As the...
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Homosexuality and the Bible

Posted on: August 16th, 2007 by History Month
>On 30th July, BBC Radio 4 in their religious programme Beyond Belief explored the relation between homosexuality and the Bible. Often at the heart of all religious views on homosexuality is the interpretation of scripture. Gay people are no different, with many developing their own readings of the Bible...
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BBC Documentary on Homophobia

Posted on: August 1st, 2007 by History Month
>Worldwide homophobia is the subject of a new documentary from the BBC. Pink News wrote this article (click to launch site) discussing the documentary: “This month the BBC World Service broadcast a documentary about homophobia in Jamaica and what it is like to come out in such an intolerant...
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Flared Brightly, Died Young – The AIDS Generation

Posted on: July 17th, 2007 by History Month
>A two-part documentary recalling the gay culture of Thatcher’s Britain and the emergence of HIV and AIDS. In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and AIDS was incubating. At the same time, a whole generation was ‘coming out’ to the world and announcing they were gay. But, for so...

Gloria Gaynor Homophobic?

Posted on: July 13th, 2007 by History Month 4 Comments
>Gloria Gaynor is currently in the uk for a series of shows. This morning she was interviewed by Radio4′s Woman’s Hour. The singer talked about her youth, her career, about some of her most famous songs, several of which have become gay anthems. She also talked about her becoming...
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Press for Change Podcasts

Posted on: June 26th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>From the Press for Change website: As readers will know, I am a keen promoter of online audio content as an innovative way of making events and people’s ideas widely accessible within communities like ours. We recently made the whole of the 2007 SOGIAG Stakeholder Conference available in this...
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Siegfried Sassoon – The Poet Who Survived

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the life of First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for “conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy’s trenches”. The citation noted...
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Greek and Roman Love Poetry – The Pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the work of the poetess Sappho. Greek and Roman love poetry – the source of many of the images and metaphors of love that have survived in literature through the centuries. We begin with the words of...
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