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Famous in Their Time

Famous in Their Time

Famous in Their Time

“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame”. This episode looks at people who were famous in their time, but have faded from memory...

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Doctor

Shama

Rahman

Sound Editing

Will

Jacob

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

The Diva and Her Diamonds

Written by

Sarah

Fleming

Performed by

Dame

Joanna

Lumley

About this story

Adelina Patti, a 19th-Century opera star with a superb voice and a sound business head, needed protection for her costume when she performed at Covent Garden in 1895.

Delve Deeper

YouTube has a recording of Adelina Patti from 1905, when she is past her prime. Find out about Patti’s Welsh castle. The National Portrait Gallery has many photographs of Patti.

Theatre Royal, Vere Street, London, United Kingdom

Not a Page in Petticoats

Written by

Kate

Reid

Performed by

Kate

Reid

About this story

In 1660 Anne Marshall was arguably the first woman to act on an English stage, playing Desdemona in a production of Othello. King Charles II had just been restored to the English throne, and ordered that women act women’s roles instead of the boys who had previously played those parts.

Delve Deeper

The British Library has an article about women actors coming to the stage for the first time in Restoration London. ArtUK has a portrait of Anne Marshall.

7 Solly Terrace, Pentonville, London, United Kingdom

I Have Been a Slave, I Know What Slaves Feel

Written by

James

Rampton

Performed by

Jasmine

Elcock

About this story

Mary Prince was the first freed enslaved woman to have her autobiography published, in 1831. She worked alongside Thomas Pringle and other campaigners in the UK to abolish slavery.

Delve Deeper

The Gutenberg Project has a free copy of Mary Prince’s autobiography available to download or read online. 

There is a blue plaque for Mary Prince at the Senate House, Malet Street, WC1, built on the site of 4 Keppel Street, where she had found work as a servant after escaping slave owner John Wood and before working for Thomas Pringle at his house in Pentonville. 

University College London has a map showing the slave owners of Bloomsbury.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

The Diva and Her Diamonds

Written by

Sarah

Fleming

Performed by

Dame

Joanna

Lumley

About this story

Adelina Patti, a 19th-Century opera star with a superb voice and a sound business head, needed protection for her costume when she performed at Covent Garden in 1895.

Delve Deeper

YouTube has a recording of Adelina Patti from 1905, when she is past her prime. Find out about Patti’s Welsh castle. The National Portrait Gallery has many photographs of Patti.

Theatre Royal, Vere Street, London, United Kingdom

Not a Page in Petticoats

Written by

Kate

Reid

Performed by

Kate

Reid

About this story

In 1660 Anne Marshall was arguably the first woman to act on an English stage, playing Desdemona in a production of Othello. King Charles II had just been restored to the English throne, and ordered that women act women’s roles instead of the boys who had previously played those parts.

Delve Deeper

The British Library has an article about women actors coming to the stage for the first time in Restoration London. ArtUK has a portrait of Anne Marshall.

7 Solly Terrace, Pentonville, London, United Kingdom

I Have Been a Slave, I Know What Slaves Feel

Written by

James

Rampton

Performed by

Jasmine

Elcock

About this story

Mary Prince was the first freed enslaved woman to have her autobiography published, in 1831. She worked alongside Thomas Pringle and other campaigners in the UK to abolish slavery.

Delve Deeper

The Gutenberg Project has a free copy of Mary Prince’s autobiography available to download or read online. 

There is a blue plaque for Mary Prince at the Senate House, Malet Street, WC1, built on the site of 4 Keppel Street, where she had found work as a servant after escaping slave owner John Wood and before working for Thomas Pringle at his house in Pentonville. 

University College London has a map showing the slave owners of Bloomsbury.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom

The Diva and Her Diamonds

Written by

Sarah

Fleming

Performed by

Dame

Joanna

Lumley

About this story

Adelina Patti, a 19th-Century opera star with a superb voice and a sound business head, needed protection for her costume when she performed at Covent Garden in 1895.

Delve Deeper

YouTube has a recording of Adelina Patti from 1905, when she is past her prime. Find out about Patti’s Welsh castle. The National Portrait Gallery has many photographs of Patti.

Theatre Royal, Vere Street, London, United Kingdom

Not a Page in Petticoats

Written by

Kate

Reid

Performed by

Kate

Reid

About this story

In 1660 Anne Marshall was arguably the first woman to act on an English stage, playing Desdemona in a production of Othello. King Charles II had just been restored to the English throne, and ordered that women act women’s roles instead of the boys who had previously played those parts.

Delve Deeper

The British Library has an article about women actors coming to the stage for the first time in Restoration London. ArtUK has a portrait of Anne Marshall.

7 Solly Terrace, Pentonville, London, United Kingdom

I Have Been a Slave, I Know What Slaves Feel

Written by

James

Rampton

Performed by

Jasmine

Elcock

About this story

Mary Prince was the first freed enslaved woman to have her autobiography published, in 1831. She worked alongside Thomas Pringle and other campaigners in the UK to abolish slavery.

Delve Deeper

The Gutenberg Project has a free copy of Mary Prince’s autobiography available to download or read online. 

There is a blue plaque for Mary Prince at the Senate House, Malet Street, WC1, built on the site of 4 Keppel Street, where she had found work as a servant after escaping slave owner John Wood and before working for Thomas Pringle at his house in Pentonville. 

University College London has a map showing the slave owners of Bloomsbury.

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