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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.  

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War. 'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.' A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside were bundles and bundles of letters written neatly on thin blue airmail paper or headed army notepaper.

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.

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.

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.