By Diane Greig
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In this episode, you’ll meet Jennis, a young American woman who grew up in Middle America.
She chose to challenge the conventions of the 1940s by holding a sit-in to protest her university’s policy of not allowing women to study Japanese. WW 2 was underway and she wanted to help the war effort in a way that would maximise her contributions. She won her fight and learned Japanese.
After being vetted, she was recruited and trained by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to become an espionage agent in India, Burma and Ceylon.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing. This content includes graphic references to sexual assault and suicide.
Episode Details
Episode Name
Podcast Episode #08
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 39:45
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Edie: Tanja Dixon-Warren
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Matt James and Scott Whittaker
Show Notes
Links and Resources
Psychology/philosophy
Hinduism
Jung psychology
Review: The Evolutionary Journey of Woman: From the Goddess to Integral Feminism by Sarah Nicholson
The Heroine Journeys Project
Satyagraha
History
A Largely Indian Victory in World War II, Mostly Forgotten in India (NY Times article, pay wall)
Strategic Operations Executive in India
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The Short Happy Life of the OSS
The Burma Campaign
The Bizarre Ways America’s First Spy Agency Tried to Overthrow Hitler
The Women Whose Secret Work Helped Win World War II (NY Times article, pay wall)
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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In this episode you’ll hear Celine’s story. She was a young French woman who first joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in the UK, and then later became a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. She parachuted into France to courier, sabotage and coordinate among Maquis groups.
You’ll hear how she challenged biased cultural beliefs about women and her references that underscore the personality of many of the women I interviewed ~ independent, strategic, compassionate, courageous and instinctual.
Celine made crucial contributions in one of the most turbulent times of WW 2; during the D-Day invasion and the weeks that followed.
Post war, the British government honoured some SOE agents with medals ~ the men received far more than the women. And for those women like Celine who did survive and receive commendation, their medals were civilian, rather than military.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing. This content includes graphic references to sexual assault and suicide.
Episode Details
Embodiment
Podcast Episode #07
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 57:48
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Celine: Emily Bett Rickards
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Scott Whittaker
Show Notes
Links and Resources
A list of SOE agents
Secret Scottish training camps
SOE Training, Transport and Equipment
The Female Spies of the SOE
The Witch hunts
A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition
Reductionism
Lhasa Pilgrim Circuits and Kora
Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda
The maquis
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Special Operations SOE Tempsford Secret Airfield WWII Spy Base (YouTube Video)
The Free French
Falais Pocket
D-Day
Shaving women’s heads after liberation
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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There have been two Madonnas worshiped throughout Europe for centuries, reflecting the splitting of the feminine archetypal energy in the mind and lives of western people.
This episode is about Zosia, a young woman who couriered for the Polish resistance in 1939, went into forced labor and found strength in the teachings of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. This icon of the Polish people and women symbolizes the power of independence, freedom, resistance, character and integrity.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Madonnas
Podcast Episode #06
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 42:46
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Zosia: Jane Heyman
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Matt James
Show Notes
Links and Resources
History
Isis nursing Horus
Black Madonna of Częstochowa
Chartres Cathedral
The Black Madonna of Poland (YouTube)
The Black Madonna of Czestochowa PolAmJournal
Hallowed Be Her Name: The Language of the Goddess
Forced labour under German rule during World War II
World War II: The Invasion of Poland and the Winter War
Poland still counts losses from WW2 invasion
Psychological
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna : a Ten-year Journey
Dancing in the Flames
Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women
Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey Arc
Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames – ‘Two Marions’ (YouTube)
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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Invisible Women is celebrating International Women’s Day with the release of Episode 5. This episode is about the power of Sisterhood and women leading, supporting and empowering women and others with compassion, strategy, intelligence and bravery so everyone may benefit.
In this episode you’ll hear Pet’s story, a young woman who lived in Amsterdam during WW 2. At the behest of her mother, she couriered for the Dutch resistance, traveling into the countryside carrying documents and funds for downed Allied pilots.
Pet talks about how the women in her household and in the resistance demonstrated a parallel way to resist without male oversight. Sisterhood resisting was coupled with extreme risk, strategy, and compassion.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Sisterhood
Podcast Episode #05
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs:39:08
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Pet: Lucia Frangione
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Matt James
Show Notes
Links and Resources
Holland’s occupation during WWII
Dutch Resistance ambushes SS officer
Dutch citizens resist Nazi occupation, 1940-1945
WWII Netherlands Escape Lines
How a Young Audrey Hepburn Helped the Dutch Resistance
Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France – Margaret Collins Weitz
How a Jewish teenager infiltrated a Nazi headquarters (YouTube video)
Psychological – Archetypal
In Search of The Divine Feminine with Jungian Analyst Anne Baring (Audio)
Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames (YouTube video)
The Great Mother (Wikipedia)
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype – Erich Neumann
Newgrange prehistoric monument
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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Ayla, a young Jewish woman, walked for miles in the middle of the night through mountainous regions with snowdrifts and freezing temperatures toward the German front.
Nearing the front with its watchful snipers, Ayla would leave her African commando escort behind and continue on alone.
Pretending to be a nurse searching for her soldier boyfriend, Ayla put her life at seemingly unsurmountable risk, but she crossed into German territory many times providing crucial information to the Free French Army regarding enemy troop strongholds and movements.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Shadow Projections
Podcast Episode #04
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 36:23
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Ayla: Nicola Lipman
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Scott Whittaker
Archival audio: Divide and Conquer, Don’t be a Sucker, from the Prelinger Archive, used under Creative Commons and/or public domain.
Show Notes
Links and Resources
Free France
Army of Africa (France)
Vichy France article in Smithsonian magazine
Marseille – First Capital of the Resistance
Antigone – Anouilh play
LA Times: The Agony of ‘Antigone’ : Anouilh’s Heroine Symbolized Nazi Resistance, Its Validity Holds
Rodenhurt, Nigel. 2012 (downloadable PDF). Dis/Simulation as Post-Traumatic Symptom and Literary Strategy in Jewish-American Fiction
Shadow and Projection
Marie Louise Von Franz on the “Shadow.”
Carl Jung and “You see, our whole mental life, our consciousness, began with projections.”
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow
Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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On her wedding day Liliana discovered that she was not only saying yes to marriage, but also to the perilous work of a wireless operator in one of the first resistance cells in France.
Speaking 5 languages by the age of 19 she was instrumental in encoding messages sent to Bletchley Park from a Polish Military cell in Lyon, run by her husband.
The cultural beliefs about women, and the relationship power gradient between women and men, supported her fiancé’s action to decide her fate.
In this episode, the patriarchal monopoly on power is easily exposed in the Allied propaganda of the era. In juxtaposition to this power, Liliana’s story reflects her authentic contributions, and her matchless abilities and ingenuity that saved them from certain capture when the cell was infiltrated by the Nazis.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Propaganda
Podcast Episode #03
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 55:53
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Liliana: Colleen Winton
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Matt James
Archival audio: Danger Women at Work, Arm Behind the Army. From the Prelinger Archive, used under Creative Commons and/or public domain.
Show Notes
Links and Resources
World War 2 Propaganda & Surveillance
Polish resistance in France during World War II
Women at Work
History of Women in the Red Cross
The Story of Propaganda
The hypodermic effect: How propaganda manipulates our emotions
Advertising, Public Relations and Propaganda
Surveillance and Espionage in a Free Society
Feminism
Feminism
What Is Feminism, And Why Do So Many Women And Men Hate It?
French Red Cross poster
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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What is it about secrets and spying that holds such interest, curiosity and energy for us? And, why were these women agents, who were living ordinary lives pre-war, exhilarated by being undercover in dangerous circumstances?
In this episode I’ll discuss the high stakes of being involved in espionage, whether behind the lines or on the home front. Then, I’ll introduce you to Garnet, a young woman from the UK who was decoding enemy messages in the secret facility at Bletchley Park.
Later it was boots on the ground for her to aid Czechoslovakian resistance cell members escape the Russians. That’s the focus of this episode of Invisible Women, different kinds of Spy Craft.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Episode Name: Spy Craft
Podcast Episode #02
Created by: Diane Greig
Produced by: Robert Ouimet
Runs: 33:11
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Garnet: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Scott Whittaker
Show Notes
Links and Resource
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF (Wikipedia)
Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wikipedia)
History of Espionage (Wikipedia)
Security Service – MI5
Women in Bletchley Park (Wikipedia)
Bletchley Park website
Britannica entry on Czechoslovakia
German occupation of Czechoslovakia (Wikipedia)
Prague uprising (Wikipedia)
The Turing-Welchman Bombe, The National Museum of Computing
A recent find of a German Enigma machine in the Baltic Sea
Russian woman sniper article
Psychology-related Links
The Ethics of Silence: An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis Approach by Nancy Billias
The Female Trickster: The Mask That Reveals, Post-Jungian and Postmodern Psychological Perspectives on Women in Contemporary by Ricki Stefanie Tannen
C.G. Jung defines intuition, YouTube video
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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When real life stories have been kept secret for over 60 years, it’s difficult to coax them into existence.
This episode introduces eight such stories and the challenges involved in uncovering them — from the male gatekeepers I had to traverse to inviting the women to share their stories, most of whom had not previously done so.
We begin with Edie’s story, a young woman who worked for Service Zero, a large resistance cell in Belgium.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Service Zero
Podcast Episode # 01
Runs: 48:50
Credits
Host and Writer: Diane Greig
Edie: Patti Allan
Casting Director: Eileen Barrett
Producer: Robert Ouimet
Sound engineer: Scott Whittaker
Show Notes
Links and Resources
Canadians in Belgium WW 2
German Occupation of Belgium WW 2
Overview of Belgium Resistance WW 2 including Service Zero
Untold Stories of Belgium’s Female Resistance WW 1
Belgium Resistance with photos WW 2
Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis (review)
Resistance movie (2003)
Belgian resistance during World War (library talk)
Psychology-related Links
Owning Your Own Shadow
Meeting the Shadow
Map of the Soul and BTS Lyrics
Romancing the Shadow
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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Based on her years of research and in-person interviews, Diane Greig hosts this podcast about eight women who worked in espionage during World War 2.
The women worked undercover in dangerous territory between 1939-1946, in countries such as France, Poland, India, Holland, Belgium and Czechoslovakia. Most were young, in their teens and early twenties.
These women were from different cultures and backgrounds, and worked for military and non-military cells. Two were from France, and the other six were Russian, Irish, Polish, Belgian, Dutch and American born. What they had in common was the opportunity to step outside societal norms, while at the same time working in the shadows. While their contributions were incredibly important, they’ve been hidden. Invisible women is an opportunity to hear their stories, to explore their roles in society and discover what we can learn from these stories, that is relevant today.
The series is called Invisible Women because the roles of these women spies were invisible to the enemy. This podcast is a thought-provoking series about cultural shadow and contemporary issues — what is endarkened in our culture and therefore, invisible and unavailable to us in our daily lives.
It’s also about projection — what we project onto others because of individual shadow and societal expectations. And, it’s about the unperceived lenses that we grow up with — invisible lenses — that affect our potential, creativity and empowerment. How do these invisible lenses affect your relationships? How may you become more aware and re-imagine, revision and deepen your life? These are a few of the topics covered in upcoming episodes.
Episodes include war-related content that some listeners may find disturbing and/or traumatizing.
Episode Details
Introducing Invisible Women
Podcast Episode #00 (promo)
Runs: 0:56
Show Notes
This is a promo for up-coming episodes.
Diane Grieg introduces herself and the series.
Links and Resources
More about Diane Greig
Army Museum (Paris, France)
Camp X (Ontario, Canada) *SOE training camp
Camp Z (Fraser Island, Australia) *SOE training camp
Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, Ontario)
Imperial War Museum (London, UK)
International Spy Museum (Washington, USA)
Military Museums (Alberta, Canada)
Vietnamese Women’s Museum (Hanoi, Vietnam) *large section dedicated to women and war
All Episodes in this Series
Episode 8: Heroine’s Journey
Episode 7: Embodiment
Episode 6: Madonnas
Episode 5: Sisterhood
Episode 4: Shadow Projections
Episode 3: Propaganda
Episode 2: Spy Craft
Episode 1: Service Zero
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