Dr David F George has been working in the AI space since the early 1990's. He is also the creator of choiceMaster, a new kind of recommender software using David's extensive knowledge in AI to vastly improve the consumer experience. In these podcasts David will talk about AI and the latest developments and innovations in the field.
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Performance is an ephemeral thing, so how do we rediscover its history, and what can that teach us about theatre today? The Theatre History Podcast explores these questions through interviews with scholars and artists who are studying theatre's past in order to help shape its future.
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Episode 108: "Stirring Up Sheffield" with Tedd George
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In the 1960s, the English city of Sheffield began work on a new theatre. The new venue, called the Crucible, became an important landmark in the development of theatre in the UK, as well as a point of contention nationwide. At the center of it all was Colin George, who spearheaded the building of the Crucible and fought for its then-unconventional …
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Episode 107: Tracing the Rise of the Professional Scenic Designer w/ Dr. David Bisaha
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How did scenic designer become a job that people could pursue in the theatre? Dr. David Bisaha joins us to talk about his book, American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism. Correction for the episode: The correct number for the historical, segregated Washington, D.C. IATSE Local was 224-A, not 244-A.…
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Episode 106: Staging Latinx Shakespeares with Dr. Carla Della Gatta
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Dr. Carla Della Gatta joins us to talk about Latinx Shakespeare productions and her book Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intercultural Theater.
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Could AI disrupt the upcoming UK General Election?
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With the rapid advancements in technology, Generative AI has become a powerful tool capable of creating convincing fake content, posing risks to the integrity of the UK General Election processes. In this latest podcast from David F George we talk about the UK election and how fake content could influence the possible outcome. We also look into how…
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David George from choiceMaster and Louise Welsby from Buy-From, talk us through their presentation to the Shropshire Leadership Conference all about AI for business, focusing on how AI is changing customer service. They confront some of the perceived fears of AI in business and seeing how, far from being negative, it can enhance your business. AI w…
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Recommenders - Why are explanations important?
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In this episode of AI And You, David discusses the importance of explainability in recommender systems, focusing on choiceMaster, the system created by David himself. He highlights how traditional recommenders lack transparency and often base recommendations on user history rather than individual preferences. choiceMaster, on the other hand, priori…
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Steve Jobs once famously said, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." In today's digital age, we often face a persistent challenge: the overwhelming abundance of information. Simply too much choice. The concept of Recommendation Systems, also known as Recommender Systems or Recommender Engines, has seamlessly integrated itsel…
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Episode 105: The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama with Professor Fiona Macintosh
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Ancient Greek and Roman drama has influenced theatre for millennia, and playwrights and other artists from around the world continue to draw inspiration from these works. Professor Fiona Macintosh joins us to talk about the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University and how it's been a resource for those who want to learn…
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Episode 104: Elise Harris Helps Us Look Into "Sidney Brustein’s Window"
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Lorraine Hansberry's play "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" is often forgotten, or dismissed as an inferior play that fell victim to the playwright's declining health at the end of her life. But as our guest, Elise Harris, tells us, it's a fascinating work in its own right, and one with a rich and complicated history.…
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In this new episode of "The AI And You" podcast with David F George, (recorded on 17-10-2023), he discusses threats posed by generative AI disinformation. He explains the difference between misinformation (accidental false information) and disinformation (deliberately deceptive information). David gives us some examples of how generative AI can be …
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Episode 103: Special Guest Episode! Peter Schmitz and Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia present "Jasper Deeter and the Hedgerow Theatre"
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It's a special guest episode, featuring Peter Schmitz and his podcast "Adventures in Theatre History: Philadelphia." Peter tells the story of Jasper Deeter, whose pioneering work had an impact on not only Philadelphia theatre, but the American stage as a whole.
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This episode highlights the impact of AI on daily lives and jobs, emphasising the need for responsible AI regulations. The lax approach to regulating Generative AI and other forms of AI automation has allowed AI companies to launch products that may exploit and negatively impact job markets. A current example is the Hollywood scriptwriters and acto…
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Suddenly we are in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is a reality. AI has the potential to impact many aspects of our lives, from how we communicate, to how we interact with our environment. AI can be used to automate mundane tasks, allowing people to focus on higher-level thinking and problem-solving. AI can also be used to create more ef…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field that involves the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that would normally require a level of human intelligence. AI can be divided into three main categories: Weak AI, Strong AI, and Artificial Superintelligence. Weak AI, or Artificial Narrow Intelligence, is currently in pr…
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This week we take a closer look at chatbots. We discuss what they are, how they work and what they could do for us. This conversation was recorded just over a week ago and the technology is moving at a breakneck speed so please bear this in mind while listening.Av Dr David F George
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Today, we’ll take a look at ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence technology that has the potential to disrupt a number of industries, from writing to the way we do our jobs. Back in 2019, a non-profit research group called OpenAI created a software program called GPT-2 that could generate paragraphs of coherent text and perform rudimentary…
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An introduction to David and choiceMaster
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In this first show, David introduces himself and tells us a little about his background in Artificial Intelligence. We also hear about his new concept in shopping recommender systems, choiceMaster.Av Dr David F George
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Episode 102: Celebrity Pregnancy on the 18th-century London Stage with Dr. Chelsea Phillips
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The eighteenth century was obsessed with celebrities, and, like our own time, the fans of the 1700s were fascinated by famous actress' pregnancies. Dr. Chelsea Phillips joins us to talk about how she explores the emergence of this aspect of 18th-century fan culture in her new book, Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, …
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Episode 101: Visiting the Museum of Broadway with Ben West
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Broadway has a long and complex history, and in November of 2022 a new museum is opening that will allow visitors to explore that history. Curator Ben West joins us to introduce the Museum of Broadway and explain how it's bringing the theatrical past to life.
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Episode 100: Examining Robert E. Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night" with Dr. Thomas F. Connolly
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For anyone who's been following the news in 2022, a play about an Eastern European country's heroic resistance in the face of Russian invasion might sound timely. But as Dr. Thomas F. Connolly shows in this week's discussion of Robert E. Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night," timeliness can be a tricky subject, perhaps especially in the context of l…
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Episode 99: Exploding the Canon with Classix
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The Classix project is working to, as they put it, “explode the classical canon through an exploration of Black performance history and dramatic works by Black writers.” Two members of the Classix team – director Dominique Rider and dramaturg Arminda Thomas – join us to talk about their work and how they’re sharing essential works from Black theatr…
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Episode 98: Marking 100 Years of "Abie's Irish Rose" with Eric Grode
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It was the biggest hit on Broadway one hundred years ago – and yet it’s largely forgotten today. Eric Grode joins us to talk about his recent New York Times article marking the centenary of Abie’s Irish Rose, the hit comedy that, though it was riddled with stereotypes and reviled by critics, seemed like it just might be popular enough to run foreve…
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Episode 97 - Discovering Kunqu with Dr. Dongshin Chang
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Kunqu is one of the cultural treasures of Chinese theatre. Today we're fortunate to be joined by Dr. Dongshin Chang, an expert on the art form. Dongshin will introduce us to the fascinating and musical world of kunqu.
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Episode 96: The End of Her Own Rainbow: Dr. Kim F. Hall Introduces Us to the Life and Work of Ntozake Shange
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The recent Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf reflects a growing appreciation for a Black writer whose work gives voice to those who have been oppressed and marginalized because of their race and gender. But who was Shange, and what more do her theatrical works …
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Episode 95 - Going Beyond Shakespeare with Rob Crighton
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Shakespeare looms large over both the American and British theatre scenes. But his outsize influence means that we’ve long neglected a dizzying array of fascinating and brilliant theatre written by other early modern England dramatists. Rob Crighton and the Beyond Shakespeare Company are working to remedy this, and Rob joins us for this episode to …
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Episode 94: A Theatre for the Oppressed? Dr. Amy Richlin on Slavery and Plautus
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The ancient Roman comedies of Plautus have inspired playwrights from Shakespeare to Sondheim. But they've also been seen as grim reminders of the oftentimes horrifying world of ancient Rome, where violence and slavery were commonplace. Dr. Amy Richlin joins us to talk about her book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic, which explores how Plautus's …
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Episode 93: Brava! American Women Make Theater, with Dr. Melissa Barton
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The roles played by women in theatre in the United States have been varied, from playwrights and performers to critics and members of the audience. Now the Beinecke Library at Yale University is sharing some of the stories of these women in an exhibit called Brava! Women Make American Theater, which runs through July 3, 2022. Today we’re joined by …
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Episode 92: Lady Romeo: Learning About 19th-Century Actress Charlotte Cushman with Tana Wojczuk
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Charlotte Cushman was a fascinating figure in 19th-century American theatre: in addition to being the first female celebrity actress on the American stage, she was also a trailblazer who embraced her identity as a lesbian and made a name for herself in a male-dominated industry. Tana Wojczuk joins us to talk about Cushman, who's the subject of her …
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Episode 91: Passing into History: Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones on Pageants and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Performance has always been a key part of the spiritual life of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of the most notable Mormon theatrical events of the last few decades have been the pageants that depict stories from the Bible and the Book of Mormon. However, as Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones discusses in this 2018 interview, the era of p…
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Episode 90: Reappraising the Legacy of Ernie McClintock with Dr. Ibby Cizmar
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Developing approaches to theatre that fit the needs and experiences of performers of color, particularly Black artists, has long been a pressing concern for the American stage. Actor training has been dominated by Eurocentric approaches based on theorists such as Stanislavsky, which are geared towards a repertoire that’s heavy with White authors su…
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Episode 89 - The History of Method Acting with Isaac Butler
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How did "Method" acting come to be? Isaac Butler joins us to talk about the history of this acting style and his book The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.
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Episode 88 - Learning About the History - and Future - of Stand-up Comedy with Dr. Rachel Blackburn
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Stand-up comedy has long been associated with White men. But, as Dr. Rachel Blackburn explains in this episode, there’s a long history of women of color performing stand-up. Today, BIPOC comedians are challenging boundaries and raising new issues in ways that are changing the nature of live comedy.
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Episode 87: Hearing the Voices of Women in Yiddish Theatre with Dr. Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel
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The Yiddish theatre has a long and rich history. But all too often that history focuses on the prominent men who found success on the stage. Now two scholars of Yiddish theatre have launched a new project to correct that historiographical imbalance. It’s called “Women on the Yiddish Stage: Primary Sources,” and it’s part of the Digital Yiddish Thea…
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Episode 86: Introducing the University of Pittsburgh's August Wilson Archive With Dr. Sandra Shannon and Bill Daw
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Playwright August Wilson's legacy has loomed ever larger over American theatre in the years since his death in 2005. In 2020, the University of Pittsburgh announced that it had acquired his archive and would make it accessible to the public. We're joined by Dr. Sandra Shannon and Bil Daw to discuss the new archive and how Wilson continues to influe…
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Episode 85 - Reading the Manuscripts of the Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project with Dr. Kate Dossett
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The so-called "Negro Units" of the Federal Theatre Project are often remembered for productions involving White artists such as Orson Welles. But, as Dr. Kate Dossett reveals in her book "Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal," the story of Black artists and audiences in the FTP was a much more complicated one, in which Black actors and writers fou…
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Episode 84: Imagining a New Federal Theatre Project with Corinna Schulenberg and Dr. Elizabeth A. Osborne
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The devastation wrought by the covid-19 pandemic has left us all questioning what we should be working towards as we pick up the pieces and try to build a theatre that reflects our changed world, One possible model comes from the past: the Federal Theatre Project, which for a few years in the 1930s offered a national theatre that brought performanc…
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Episode 83: Transcribing the Federal Theatre Project with Morgen Stevens-Garmon
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The Federal Theatre Project was a landmark of American theatre history whose influence has far outlived its brief existence in the 1930s. There’s probably no bigger trove of information about and material pertaining to the FTP than at the Library of Congress, which holds thousands of the programs and fliers printed to accompany its theatrical produ…
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Episode 82: Where the Courtroom Meets the Stage: Dr. Luke McDonagh on Copyright and Drama
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The connection between theatre and the law is a deep one that goes back thousands of years. Dr. Luke McDonagh has been tracing this connection in the context of British authors such as Shakespeare, and his new book Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship looks at how copyright law affects dramatic works in the United Kingdom.…
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Episode 81: “Simultaneously Unhinged and Fantastical in Every Possible Way”: Margaret Hall Introduces Us to the History of Theatrical Merchandise
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If you've been to a Broadway show, you've probably seen the merchandise booth. You may even have bought a t-shirt, or a magnet for your fridge. But where did the Broadway merchandise industry come from? Margaret Hall joins us to talk about her recent Theatermania articles chronicling the rise and development of this unique theatrical industry.…
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Episode 80: Rediscovering Lost Plays with Dr. David McInnis
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We know that over half of the plays produced during Shakespeare's time have since been lost. What might we discover about that era if we knew what those lost plays were about? Dr. Davis McInnis's book "Shakespeare and Lost Plays" explores what we can figure out from the fragmentary evidence that remains.…
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Episode 79: Exploring Nuyorican Feminist Performance with Dr. Patricia Herrera
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There are many theatrical movements and institutions that have been marginalized in histories of the American theatre. But there are also individuals and groups who are further marginalized within those movements, such as the role played by women in the development of Nuyorican performance. Dr. Patricia Herrera joins us to talk about these women an…
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Episode 78: Peter Schmitz's Adventures in Theatre History
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How do we recover and retell the stories of theatrical performance from ages past? That's a question that Peter Schmitz is exploring with his podcast Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia, which delves into the theatrical past of one of America's most important centers of performance.
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Episode 77: Exploring the Imitations of Gertrude Hoffmann with Dr. Sunny Stalter-Pace
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"Imitation" is often a dirty word in the arts, but dancer and performer Gertrude Hoffmann was a genius at borrowing and recreating elements of other artists' acts, and in doing so she exposed early 20th-century American audiences to important developments in Modernist art. Dr. Sunn Stalter-Pace joins us to talk about "Imitation Artist," her biograp…
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Episode 76: Voyage to the Planet of the Grapes with Pete Marino
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Learn how Peter Michael Marino is drawing on the Victorian-era tradition of toy theatre to create a new theatrical epic based on the classic sci-fi movie Planet of the Apes.
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Episode 75: "Our Town" in the 21st Century: Howard Sherman's "Another Day's Begun"
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Our Town is one of the classics of the American stage, but how well do we really know this play? Howard Sherman joins us to discuss his new book, Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century.
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Episode 74: Discovering Teresa Deevy with Drs. Una Kealy and Kate McCarthy
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Teresa Deevy was one of the most frequently-produced Irish playwrights of the 1930s, bringing her unique experience as a Deaf woman playwright in a patriarchal society together with her dramatic skill to create fascinating works such as Katie Roche. But she's been relatively neglected by subsequent generations. Drs. Kate McCarthy and Una Kealy are …
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Episode 73: Introducing the Theatre 2020 Collection with Dr. Eric Colleary
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Learn how Dr. Eric Colleary and his colleagues at the Harry Ransom Center are documenting how the tumultuous events of 2020 affected theatre.
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Episode 70: Restoring An Alternate Version of Shakespeare’s Works
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Who can forget the timeless moments in Shakespeare’s plays, such as Hamlet’s encounter with the Ghost, Beatrice and Benedick’s playful sparring, or the happy ending to King Lear? If that last example doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because it’s from a different version of the famous tragedy, one that comes from the era known as the Restoration. Coming af…
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Episode 69: Tracing the Origins of the Freak Show with Dr. Matt DiCintio
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Popular culture has largely forgotten about the freak show – or has it? The display of so-called “freaks,” human beings with bodies that were perceived as drastically different from what was considered “normal,” was once an incredibly popular form of public entertainment, but one which we now look back on with embarrassment. However, as Dr. Matt Di…
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Episode 68: Learning About Mary Ann Yates with Dr. Elaine McGirr
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Mary Ann Yates is the best actress whom you’ve never heard of. That’s how Dr. Elaine McGirr characterizes this fascinating woman, who rose to stardom on the eighteenth-century British stage and later went on to become the first female manager of a major London theatre. As Elaine explains in this episode, Yates’s time as the reigning queen of the st…
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