Chickstory

This week Annie takes us back to Ep 6 Hedy Lamar - a woman who was so much more than her Hollywood good looks! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠

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Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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Lilian Roxon - also known as The Mother Of Rock achieved so much in her short colourful life. Not only paving the way for female music journalists but she also wrote the most comprehensive encyclopaedia on rock music ever written! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠

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Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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For this week's re-released Ep Annie has chosen Ep 4 Hattie McDaniel - the first African American to win an Academy Award. These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠

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Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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This week we revisit the story of Myra Juliet Farrell - a prolific inventor with over 24 patents to her name! Some of the most common household items we still use today we owe to Myra! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠

Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to [email protected]

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Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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In Case You Missed It (ICYMI)

For the next few Eps we'll be sharing our favourites again from Season 1 - just the Chickstory minus the gaff!

To kick off the summer series Annie has selected Ep 2 - the incredible story of suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Emmeline Pankhurst.

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In our final episode for the year Annie tells Yvie all about Madame Clicquot who took on her husband's wine business when she was widowed at 27. You'll never look at at a bottle of veuve clicquot the same again. This ep was also filmed in front of a live virtual audience.

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Sources:

https://www.veuveclicquot.com/en-au/our-house/madame-clicquot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veuve_Clicquot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Clicquot_Ponsardin

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-widow-who-created-the-champagne-industry-180947570/

Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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By the time of her death in 2020 Vera Lynn had been active in the music industry for 96 years. In one of the most emotional eps so far Yvie tells Annie all about this incredible woman and her amazing legacy to the music industry.

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Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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Robin Miller was known as the SugarBird Lady. She single handedly helped to eradicate the polio virus in Western Australia by administering the vaccine on sugar cubes and flying it into remote parts of the state.

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Sources:

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dicks-robin-elizabeth-10016

https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/medicine/display/93353-robin-miller-dicks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Miller_(nurse)

https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/news/sugar-bird-lady/

https://maureenhelen.com/poliomyelitis-epidemics-in-western-australia/

Links to other things mentioned:

https://www.netflix.com/title/80025678

Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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This week's episode features an American woman by the name of Grace Gibson, who brought the radio serial to Australia and went on to start the first radio production company in Australia. Yet so many of us have never heard of her!!! She also helped a well known male entrepreneur start a television network.Yet we still don't know much about her in current media!!!

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Links:

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/mcdonagh-sisters-early-australian-female-filmmakers

Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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Isabel Letham was the first woman in Australia to surf! Not only that- she also left a swimming legacy that spread throughout the northern beaches of Sydney Australia making it all the way to San Francisco in the USA.

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Letham

https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-isabel-letham-daring-australian-surfing-pioneer-111530

https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-isabel-letham-daring-australian-surfing-pioneer-111530

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/women-surf-beginning

Links for other things mentioned:

Use of Force Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/use-of-force/id1524872084

The Undoing: https://www.foxtel.com.au/watch/the-undoing.html

Sam Harris: Making Sense Podcast: - https://samharris.org/podcasts/223-october-30-2020/

The Circus: https://www.stan.com.au/watch/the-circus?gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1263226&gclid=CjwKCAiA17P9BRB2EiwAMvwNyLLRB7vDQlJi4w-rsIHf6D1Eh6YJzct9_ay_nLDjAf-QCmdeMe5DChoCIbwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

35 people who voted for from in 2016: https://meettheinternet.com/politics-meets-the-internet/trump-voters-2020/

Layla Saad - https://www.instagram.com/laylafsaad/?hl=en

Me and White Supremacy: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/

National Film & Sound Archive - Bondi Movie + LIfesaving in Terrigal News Reel: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/surfing-australia

Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno.

Produced by Sam Petersen

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