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Forty-five episodes from Series 1-8 of the Sony Award-winning BBC Radio comedy show, hosted by Rufus Hound. In this hilarious and revealing show, host Rufus Hound invites his guests to revisit their formative years by dusting off their intimate teenage diaries and reading them out in public for the very first time.

Meet Anne Lister, the 18th-century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story.... Anne was different from society’s expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was interested only in women and had ‘marriage’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton and later Ann Walker. She spent a great deal of time studying, managed her own estates, sought business opportunities, travelled widely and climbed mountains.

I could not imagine a world where everyone believes they think freely while another third watches them wander around like puppets doing the same repetitive things having burned out all their brain cells. They never questioned if they’ve even had a thought all their own.

Otto Julius Bierbaum, der als erster Mensch den Brenner mit einem Automobil überquert hat (zusammen mit seiner Frau und Chauffeur), findet in der Cassette seines Großvaters schriftliche Relikte (fast) längst vergangener Tage und lässt anhand dieser seine Twen- und Studienjahre Revue passieren. Verflossene Liebschaften, Männerfreundschaften, Rauf- und Saufgelage, amouröse Stelldicheins, verwegene Helden- wie Schandtaten und Abenteuer aus (fast) vergessenen oder verdrängten Zeiten.

Paula Modersohn-Becker war eine deutsche Malerin und eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des frühen Expressionismus. Im vierten Teil ihrer "Briefe und Tagebuchblätter" hören Sie die Briefe, Tagebuchblätter und Gedichte Paula Modersohn-Beckers des Jahres 1898-99. Gelesen von Johanna Mette Pollet.