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QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesBack when boys, played girls, pretending to be boysThere perhaps isn’t a more British way, to say - gender is a construct - than with Shakespeare is there?So put aside your stack of sonnets, go stick on the kettle, brew a cuppa, and let Shevek Imogen Fodor tell you about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England and ignited and already ember burning flame of gender diversity on stage in the UK's most hallowed theatre institutions.If we acknowledge that gender was performed, messed with and expanded on stage then we can find a glimpse of positive no...2025-06-0929 min
The Alfred DailyThe Alfred Daily – 7th June 2025 (Episode 1904) On The Alfred Daily Today: Alfred Events Shaftesbury Groups Can Apply For Council Grants – Pot Could Be Reduced To Fund Free Pool Swimming Shaftesbury Lido Swimmers Say Quiz Night Was Clearly Popular Lido Swimmers Approve Water Filtration Improvements Wanted – Recruits To The Mini Revellers, The Kids’ Club Crafting Carnival Carts Love Shaftesbury – Alice Perry Of Shaftesbury Wines Shares Why She Loves Our Hilltop Town View From The Hill – Six Former Cotswold Nannies Reunite In Shaftesbury Events Within One Hour’s Drive Of Shaf...2025-06-061h 00
featured Wiki of the DayEdward the MartyrfWotD Episode 2874: Edward the Martyr Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 18 March 2025 is Edward the Martyr.Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 18 March 978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar (r. 959–975). On Edgar's death, the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As they were both children, it is unlikely that they played an active...2025-03-1803 min
SundayThe Muslim Vote, Lama Rod Owens, Faith SchoolsThe way many Muslims have voted in the local elections this week has raised some difficult questions for Labour. We hear from Shaista Aziz one of ten Labour councillors in Oxford who resigned in the autumn over the party's position on the Gaza conflict, and Stephen Fisher, Professor of Political Sociology at Oxford University, on what it could mean for a general election. Lama Rod Owens is one of a new generation of Buddhist teachers centred on living in a just way, with a focus on social change, identity and spiritual wellness - with many of his...2024-05-0741 min
Dark DarzetT E Lawrence and the Ghostly Motorcycle of Clouds HillT E Lawrence and the Ghostly Motorcycle of Clouds HillColonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.Lawrence lived (for a time) and died in Dorset. Tales have been told of his ghostly motorcycle haunting the road where he died. There’s a conspiracy theory about his death, did he die? Or was he taken somewhere else? His ghost has al...2022-10-0446 min
Queer ConfessionsIt's Jamie Wareham!Jamie joins Jacob at the LGBTI Embassy for some super cute confessions! Like Jamie's 16th Birthday game of spin the bottle, WITH GAY KISSES ALLOWED, Jacob's weird af one about crossing roads & a listener confession about windows and boyfriends...
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains CUTENESS and sexual themes throughout and some ‘naughty words’ here & there.
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