Consistently Eccentric History

Joseph Mortimer Granville - "We're just waiting for the hammer to fall (on our fun zones)"


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How did a doctor specialising in corpulent Victorian gentlemen become synonymous with the female orgasm?


By horrible accident of course!


This week meet Joseph, a medical polymath who would be turning in his grave to see how he has been misrepresented over the last century. A wrong we intend to right on this special Valentines Day episode.


Guest Host: Jack Heathcote

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