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Period

Written by: Claudia Cox and Yasmin Vince
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  • Feminist period drama podcast. Each episode, we break down how women are presented in a different historical film or TV show. A historian tells us how that period drama has changed our understanding of real women from that time period. Were corsets really as grim as TV tells us? Have the makers of Bridgerton ever opened a history book? Have the makers of Gladiator ever spoken to a girl? We shall discuss all this and more, while fangirling over Keira Knightley at any given opportunity.

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    Claudia Cox and Yasmin Vince
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Episodes
  • There's no Oppenheimer without Barbie

    There's no Oppenheimer without Barbie
    Apr 30 2024
    Unfortunately, Oppenheimer has more atomic energy than Kenergy. We analyse the role of women in Oppenheimer (or lack thereof). The head of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Cindy Kelly, tells us about all the real women who worked on the Manhattan project but aren’t in the film. Why does a film about atomic bombs show Florence Pugh’s boobs but not Japan? Does Barbie deserve a Nobel Prize for her contribution to revitalising international interest in the history of quantum physics research? We discuss this in a logical chronological order that will make sense to people other than Christopher Nolan.

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    50 mins
  • Pride & Prejudice & Patriarchy

    Pride & Prejudice & Patriarchy
    Apr 23 2024

    On the pilot episode of Period, we look at how women are portrayed in Pride & Prejudice (2005). We interview the director of the Jane Austen House Museum, Lizzie Dunford, about which Pride and Prejudice adaptation Jane Austen would have liked the best. Does this film accurately represent the lives of Regency era women? (Sort of.) Is everything Mr Bennet's fault? (Probably.) Should Matthew Macfadyen have walked out a lake in a drenched shirt? (Absolutely.) We discuss at length while wearing our flounciest floral dresses.



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    47 mins
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