Download: Voices from the Old Bailey - Sexual Subcultures

[anteros_lmc]

If anyone is interested in downloading a copy of Amanda Vickery's BBC Radio 4 programme Voices from the Old Bailey: Sexual Subcultures which I posted about last week, I've uploaded a copy to megaupload.

The programme is fascinating and tragic in equal measure and contains a wealth of detail on the lives of gay and transgendered men and women in the 18th century. It's also worth listening to if only to meet the utterly fabulous cross-dressing Queen Seraphina :)

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[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. If I get my act together I'll see if I can record the rest of the series too.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I listened to this tonight. (Husband was listening to baseball, so I needed something good...) It was really fascinating.

The court cases were really heart clenching. I had such a sense of the real men, with their real lives and worries.

The dates were a little early for our AOS, but of course Naval law was just as harsh.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm glad you listened to this and enjoyed it! It is a little early for us, but the stories are so fascinating and so tragic aren't they? They certainly bring the real lives of these men and women into sharp focus.

I really must try to record and upload the other parts of this series, one of which rather prophetically focuses on rioting! I haven't listened to it but I seem to recall the blurb said something about rioting sailors.