The Dorothy Project Alice Beverton-Palmer
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- Society & Culture
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What’s the connection between certain women - from Lady Gaga to the Queen Mum - and queer society?
This interview series, hosted by DJ and LGBT activist Alice Beverton-Palmer, explores the Dorothy in ‘friends of Dorothy’.
Expect fresh, frank and funny interviews with famous names and unsung heroes, a new angle on the queer zeitgeist, and history you won’t have learned at school.
Get involved on Twitter - we want your stories, and your guest suggestions. Tweet a name @Dorothy_Podcast and we'll try to make it happen. We're especially keen to talk to more women of colour.
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Tony Gill: Fashion lecturer and PR
For our last episode of season three, we meet another Friend of Dorothy: fashion lecturer and PR Tony Gill. Tony’s British Asian upbringing gave him a whole different set of gay icons to the ones host Alice grew up with - and the conversation may give you an appetite to work back through decades of Bollywood classics…
Creator & host: Alice Beverton-Palmer
Producer & editor: Laura Blake -
Paula Akpan: Historian and journalist
Paula Akpan brings us the Black British queer history you won't have learned at school
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Rita: Club Kali co-founder
Rita, co-founder of queer Asian clubnight Club Kali and social entrepreneur
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Queer Women in Fiction
Jodie Mullish, Laura Kay, Buki Papillon and Simon Savidge talk queer female representation in fiction
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Dr Fern Riddell: Historian of sex
LGBT History Month PSA: We have always been here. Dr Fern Riddell shares lessons from queer history.
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Judge Rinder: Barrister and TV personality
From the suburbs to the bright lights of Strictly, it’s been quite the journey for Judge Rinder