The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

By James BoultonSociety & Culture Education History

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The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages episodes

September 06 6.29 The Spymaster, the Commander and the Cat
We kick off a two-part anthology following legendary women who operated at the absolute extremes of the Second World War, from Baker Street’s chain-smoking chief of staff, Vera Atkins and cosmetics-toting guerrilla commander, Pearl Witherington, to the traitor Mathilde Carré, who traded eighty comrades for a fur coat.

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1 hr 30 min
August 09 6.28 Virginia Hall (5) The Madonna of the Mountains
Virginia heads south into the Haute Loire, where she will deal with some titanic egos, drive trains into gorges and liberate an entire department without any Allied back-up - before facing the far scarier prospect of peacetime.

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1 hr 12 min
July 19 6.27 Virginia Hall (4) Chin up, and tail over the dashboard
After escaping Spain and returning to Occupied France as an OSS operative, Virginia orchestrates a high-stakes campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare to pave the way for D-Day.

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47 min
June 14 6.26 Virginia Hall (3) The Devil in the Dog Collar
Fresh from her greatest success, the honeymoon phase is officially over for Virginia Hall. Under attack from all sides and with her network penetrated, she is forced to risk everything on a treacherous winter escape.

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47 min
May 31 6.25 Virginia Hall (2) The Limping Lady of Lyon
Virginia arrives in Occupied Europe and sets Vichy France alight, using a unique network made up of brothel madams, spinster antiquarians and corset-merchants. And when the suits in Baker Street try to pull her out, she plans one of the most audacious prison breaks of the war.

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54 min
May 10 6.24 Virginia Hall (1) A companion called Cuthbert
Dismissed by her own government as a one-legged clerk who "talked too much," Virginia Hall traded the stifling confines of the Maryland elite for 1920s Paris and then the sound of the guns in France in 1940.

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47 min
March 22 6.23 Noor Inayat Khan (2) Night and fog
In the heart of occupied Paris, a pacifist with a radio suitcase becomes the last operator standing—and the Gestapo’s most elusive target.

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58 min
February 22 6.22 Noor Inayat Khan (1) The Pacifist Princess
Deemed "not overburdened with brains" and morally opposed to lying, Noor Inayat Khan was the last person you'd send into Nazi-occupied France.

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56 min
February 01 6.21 Christine Granville (4) The Countess Below Decks
She survived blizzards, the Gestapo and firing squads, but can Britain's first female World War II spy survive the peace?

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49 min
January 11 6.20 Christine Granville (3) The Digne Jailbreak
Christine Granville parachutes into occupied France, trading shadows for the front lines, and risks everything on a daring bluff when all hope seems lost.

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49 min

About The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women…