www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ "Songs for a Statue” is Episode 24 of the Podcast Series "Women of Science & Music: 30 Celebrations" www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/podcasts/ It was released on 21st May 2023 to celebrate Mary Anning’s 224th Birthday! More details here www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/songs-for…-podcast/ SPEAKERS: Anya Pearson – Chair, Mary Anning Rocks Denise Dutton – Sculptor Emma Bernard – Palaeontologist, Curator of Fossil Fish, Natural History Museum Tom Sharpe – Biograp...

www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Eliza Flower (1803-1846) This is a birthday celebration podcast for this unsung composer who was born on April 19th, 1803. Its a snippet of a much longer conversation between our ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE artistic director, Frances M Lynch and music historian, Oskar Jensen – NUAcT Fellow in Music at Newcastle University and BBC New Generation Thinker for 2022. We met in the libary at Conway Hall,Red Lion Square, London, where we were overlooked by the beautiful im...

www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ The Misfolding Project, based at the University of Sussex, has commissioned a series of 5 audiovisual works from a diverse range of artists which together form an exploration of the science of Alzheimer’s disease. The podcast gives you a flavour of the music with a comprehensive exposition of the science – in laymans’ terms. The full works are available online. www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/misfolding/ SPEAKERS: (University of Sussex) Professor Louise Ser...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005) Fleas can jump much further than any human athlete – up to ten times their own body length. That’s just one of the many intriguing facts related by Miriam Rothschild, an extraordinary scientist who started collecting butterflies and ladybirds when she was four and grew up to become one of the world’s leading entomologists. Insects often seem small and annoying, but they are crucial contributors to ecological diversity – and...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) Mycologist and Author We all love Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and others - but author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter, was also a scientist who made important discoveries. In her early years, she was passionately interested in mycology, studying fungi (mushrooms) and ferns with the help of a Scottish Postman!!! She was not treated well by some men scientists so she stopped her studies - a loss to mycology but a gain for ch...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ From humble beginnings in Keith, Moray, Scotland, Dr Isabella Gordon (1901-1988) working at the British Museum (Natural History) had become one of the world’s most respected scientists in carcinology, the study of crustaceans. In 1961, Japanese scientists wanted to celebrate the 60th birthday of Emperor Hirohito, an enthusiastic marine biologist. They invited Dr Gordon to be an honoured guest for the occasion. In both countries, memories of war were sti...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Maria Ogilvie Gordon, DBE (1864 – 1939) set out to become a concert pianist but soon found herself trekking among the Dolomites, claiming her place as a highly respected geologist and taking part in negotiations at the Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations after WW1. https://minervascientifica.co.uk/maria-ogilvie-gordon/ SPEAKERS: Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of Scotland Dr ...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Tramping around every part of Scotland, Evelyn Baxter(1879-1959)and her friend, Leonora Rintoul, are recognised as the foremost Scottish ornithologists of their day. The unique data they noted and collected was supplemented by accounts from others, and published in the two-volume Birds of Scotland (1953). A compelling story, which weaves together scientific and historical detail with warm remembrances of the family’s ‘Aunt Evie’ https://minervasci...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) https://minervascientifica.co.uk/caroline-herschel/ is celebrated for being the first woman to discover a comet, but she is also important for playing a crucial role in the astronomical and musical careers of her brother William. SPEAKERS: Dr Patricia Fara – Science Historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge Dr Sian Prosser – Librarian and Archivist Royal Astronomical Society Dr Anna Lisa Varri – UKRI Future Lead...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Lilian Bader (1918 – 2015) was a very successful Aircraft Instrument Engineer in the WAAF (land-based Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) rising to Leading Aircraftwoman and finally Acting Corporal, the first woman to achieve her stripes. https://minervascientifica.co.uk/lilian-bader/ Science Historian Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge, discusses the life and work of Lilian Bader with Warrant Officer Alison an Aeronautical Engineer f...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ A special PODCAST to celebrate the 205th birthday of Mathematician and Computer Pioneer, Ada Lovelace, who was born on 10th December 1815 https://minervascientifica.co.uk/Ada-Lovelace/ SPEAKERS: Dr Patricia Fara – Science historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge Laura Trevail – contextual artist and technologist from Essex MUSIC: “Something More Than Mortal” by Cheryl Frances-Hoad A setting of words by Ada Lovelace “ADA BAB(BLE)” by France...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ The 3nd of our electric voice theatre "Echoes from Essex" October Podcasts Our Towering Mathematical poet is Elizabeth Tollet (1694-1754), Stratford’s multi-talented Scientific Poet who lived for many years in the Tower of London. One of her neighbours, Isaac Newton, praised her achievements, yet her poetry expresses her resentment at being unjustly excluded from the male world of science. SPEAKERS: Dr Patricia Fara, Science Historian and Emeritu...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ The 2nd of our electric voice theatre "Echoes from Essex" October Podcasts The Queen of Slime Mould is Gulielma Lister (1860-1949), Leytonstone’s World Expert on Fungi. A meticulous observer, illustrator and collector, she was world-famous for her research into slime mould and her continual support of younger female scientists. SPEAKERS: Dr Gothamie Weerakoon, Senior Curator of Lichens and Slime Moulds, Natural History Museum, London Maureen Meas...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ The 1st of our electric voice theatre "Echoes from Essex" October Podcasts Trained at Cambridge University, Beryl Platt (1923-2015) was a distinguished engineer and campaigner for female education who worked on fighter aircraft during the Second World War. Her daughter, Vicky Platt, gives personal and intriguing insights into her mother's life and her own adventures in mathematics, physics and sailing! Music, sung by electric voice theatre singers...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ A wealthy horticulturalist with a passion for roses, Ellen Willmott(1858-1936) developed her family garden into a world-famous botanical centre and funded international expeditions to discover new plants. Today her garden, which you can see above on the left, has transformed into Warley Place Nature Reserve, shown on the right, which is a magical natural landscape well worth a visit. In place of Willmott’s 100 immaculately dressed gardeners, the reserve...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk Thaxted Festival has a wonderful reputation for classical music in Essex and is normally associated with Gustav Holst whose 1916 Whitsun Festival there laid the foundations for the modern events. But there was another Holst who has many important connections with the development of the festival we know today. Imogen Holst forged a significant career in music as a composer with an array of skills and interests which grew in many ways through her father’s,...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ This is Episode 8 of the electric voice theatre podcast series "Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations" first released on the 7th of July 2020 in honour of the birthday of a secret codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2. You will have to listen to find out her name! The science historian is Catherine Booth and the music is from “A Cryptograhers Crossword” by Frances M Lynch sung by Margaret Cameron and myself, accompanied by the soun...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ AMY JOHNSON, born on July 1st 1903, was a celebrated Pilot and Aeronautical Engineer who first came to attention when she flew from England to Australia single handed. Her blazing career included daredevil flying in air shows, modelling, fashion and her final phase, which led to her early death in 1941, when we she was working for the ATA ferrying aircraft between airfields in the UK. Find out more about her intriguing story with science historian...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ On 1 July 1899, the foundation of the International Council of Nurses was proposed by Ethel Gordon Fenwick. To celebrate this and the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 we have created an “Echoes from Essex” podcast featuring interviews with four of the nurses and midwives who arrived in Essex many years ago from the Caribbean – Tina Aparicia, Carol Sydney, Lenore Sykes and Nell Green. The music includes a song by Avril Cole...

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Today we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day through the “Echoes from Essex” project in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre. We asked 6 engineers from Essex, past and present, to describe their work through the 5 senses. Their responses draw us into an unexpectedly diverse world of women in engineering:- Florence Attridge (voiced by Emily Peplow from Chelmsford Civic Theatre) and Baroness Platt of Writtle (voiced by ...