Shadow Spies, Sophie Parkin and Danielle Neary, talk to, their first male guest, Adam Dant, about the city of London and his archaeological maps that encapsulate history. Similar to the Shadow Spies, he brings the past to the surface by putting visual narratives onto maps. 

Adam Dant is a contemporary British artist known for visual, historical, storytelling maps. His work features in the collections of international institutions including Tate Britain, MOMA New York,  HRH Prince of Wales, Museum of London and San Diego Museum of Art. He was the winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2002.

Shadow Spies, Sophie Parkin and Danielle Neary, talk to singer, songwriter, musician and creator of the Shadow Spies theme tune, Jordan Jackson, about her life, her influences and the strong women who have inspired her.
 
Soul of a Woman by Jordan Jackson is the Shadow Spies theme tune, her music can be listened to on Spotify. 

Shadow Spies, Sophie Parkin and Danielle Neary, continue their conversation with the ever-fascinating Irma Kurtz, writer, agony aunt and living historian of Bohemianism. 
 
Irma Kurtz is a living historian of Bohemianism, growing up in Greenwich Village, travelling through Europe and living in Paris, before settling in London. She was an agony aunt at Cosmopolitan for 40 years and has written many books. A woman of purpose and of her own agency, she wrote her own rules and laid the path for many feminists today. 

Shadow Spies, Sophie Parkin and Danielle Neary, talk to writer, agony aunt and living historian of Bohemia, Irma Kurtz about her life. 
Irma Kurtz is a living historian of Bohemianism, growing up in Greenwich Village, travelling through Europe and living in Paris, before settling in London. She was an agony aunt at Cosmopolitan for 40 years and has written many books. A woman of purpose and of her own agency, she wrote her own rules and laid the path for many feminists today. 

Shadow Spy, Danielle Neary, talks to Sophie Parkin (fellow Shadow Spy) and ceramicist and artist, Mandee Gage, about their collaborative project called 147 Women Dinner Party, and how the art project inspired the Shadow Spies podcast. 

147 Women Dinner Party is a collaborative arts project, created by Sophie Parkin & Mandee Gage, consisting of an installation of 147 ceramic pieces, each dedicated to British women who changed the course of history. 

Sophie Parkin is a writer, artist and co-owner of surrealist arts club, Vout-O-Reenee’s. Her work can be found at vout-o-reenees.com

Mandee Gage is an artist and ceramicist working in East London. Her work can be found at mandeegage.co.uk 

Male chefs dominate the food world, and we don't often see a lot of females in professional kitchens. But why is this, when some of the most influential food writers were women? 
Sophie and Danielle interview renowned food writer, historian and cook, Angela Clutton this week, and discuss the life of Elizabeth David and other influential women in food, like Isabella Beeton, Eliza Acton and Delia Smith. 

Angela Clutton is co-founder of the Borough Market podcast, co-director of The British Museum Food Season. Her debut book 'The Vinegar Cupboard' is out now. 

Alice Guy-Blaché was the first female director, and yet this is little known, with credit being given to Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge, Georges Melies and The Lumiere Brothers instead. This week Sophie and Danielle speak to, film critic, Anna Smith and, journalist and author of 'Women vs Hollywood', Helen O'Hara about women in film: how it all started, and how its going. 

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Everywhere you look, it is a man given praise for the vaccine - Dr Edward Jenner in 1796 - but it wouldn't have been possible without the work of one incredible lady 75 years prior. This week Sophie Parkin and Danielle Neary talk to 18th Century expert Prof Amanda Vickery of Queen Mary College London about the history of Inoculations and Lady Mary Wortley Montague.