33 episodes

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.

The Dorothy Project Alice Beverton-Palmer

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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.

    Tony Gill: Fashion lecturer and PR

    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

    • 31 min
    Paula Akpan: Historian and journalist

    Paula Akpan: Historian and journalist

    Paula Akpan brings us the Black British queer history you won't have learned at school

    • 43 min
    Rita: Club Kali co-founder

    Rita: Club Kali co-founder

    Rita, co-founder of queer Asian clubnight Club Kali and social entrepreneur

    • 30 min
    Queer Women in Fiction

    Queer Women in Fiction

    Jodie Mullish, Laura Kay, Buki Papillon and Simon Savidge talk queer female representation in fiction

    • 23 min
    Dr Fern Riddell: Historian of sex

    Dr Fern Riddell: Historian of sex

    LGBT History Month PSA: We have always been here. Dr Fern Riddell shares lessons from queer history.

    • 32 min
    Judge Rinder: Barrister and TV personality

    Judge Rinder: Barrister and TV personality

    From the suburbs to the bright lights of Strictly, it’s been quite the journey for Judge Rinder

    • 26 min

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