Chickstory

This week Annie takes us back to Ep 6 Hedy Lamar - a woman who was so much more than her Hollywood good looks! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠ Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno. Produced by Sam P...

Lilian Roxon - also known as The Mother Of Rock achieved so much in her short colourful life. Not only paving the way for female music journalists but she also wrote the most comprehensive encyclopaedia on rock music ever written! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠ Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail...

For this week's re-released Ep Annie has chosen Ep 4 Hattie McDaniel - the first African American to win an Academy Award. These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠ Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno. Produ...

This week we revisit the story of Myra Juliet Farrell - a prolific inventor with over 24 patents to her name! Some of the most common household items we still use today we owe to Myra! These re-released Eps feature just the meaty Chickstory bit and no gaff! ⁠ Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podca...

In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) For the next few Eps we'll be sharing our favourites again from Season 1 - just the Chickstory minus the gaff! To kick off the summer series Annie has selected Ep 2 - the incredible story of suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Emmeline Pankhurst. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/chickstory . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our final episode for the year Annie tells Yvie all about Madame Clicquot who took on her husband's wine business when she was widowed at 27. You'll never look at at a bottle of veuve clicquot the same again. This ep was also filmed in front of a live virtual audience. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chi...

By the time of her death in 2020 Vera Lynn had been active in the music industry for 96 years. In one of the most emotional eps so far Yvie tells Annie all about this incredible woman and her amazing legacy to the music industry. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram - @chickstory_podcast Executive Producers Yvie J...

Robin Miller was known as the SugarBird Lady. She single handedly helped to eradicate the polio virus in Western Australia by administering the vaccine on sugar cubes and flying it into remote parts of the state. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Sources: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dic...

This week's episode features an American woman by the name of Grace Gibson, who brought the radio serial to Australia and went on to start the first radio production company in Australia. Yet so many of us have never heard of her!!! She also helped a well known male entrepreneur start a television network. Yet we still don't know much about her in current media!!! Got an amazing chick in history s...

Isabel Letham was the first woman in Australia to surf! Not only that- she also left a swimming legacy that spread throughout the northern beaches of Sydney Australia making it all the way to San Francisco in the USA. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This week we talk about a small but powerful powerhouse in the American comedy industry. This chick made some of the most famous comedians household names. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzi_Shore https://thecomedystore.com/mitzi-shore/ https://ww...

Maria Mitchell was an astronomer, a teacher and a womens rights advocate. She became the first American woman to discover a comet and her legacy still lives on to this day. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell https://www.mariamitchell.org/...

This week we feature two woman separately who invented a device each that everyone in the modern world (mostly) still use to this day. One ironically, has the same last name as another inventor we featured in episode 5 who invented something in the same field! Chicks are awesome Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagra...

Elizabeth J. Magie (pronounced Magee) was a writer, feminist, abolitionist and inventor. For centuries the game Monopoly has been credited to a man (lols!) but it was Lizzie who invented the game years earlier! Do you have an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: chickstory_podcast Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li...

Beryl Mills was our very first Miss Australia which is very trendy and cool. But there was so much more to her. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Links: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mills-beryl-lucy-11130 Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno. Produced by Sam Petersen. Sup...

Myra Juliet Farrell was a prolific inventor with over 24 patents to her name! Some of the most common household items we still use today we owe to Myra! Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Juliet_Farrell https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in...

This week we discuss Frances Levvy, an animal protection advocate from Sydney and a co-founder of the RSPCA. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Executive Producers Yvie Jones and Annette Staglieno. Produced by Sam Petersen. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/chickstory . Hosted on...

Dubbed 'the Mother of Rock', Roxon became the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. She gained an international following for her witty, passionate appraisals of musicians and their work. Roxon remained a fan first and foremost and her hit predictions became legendary. Embedded in the rock and emerging punk scene in New York, she knew all the new and...

Before Princess Di, the world had the original tragedy of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sisi (Sissi). They probably would have been friends! Her story was more dramatic and less sordid. But just as heartbreaking.  Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to: mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Links: https://en.wik...

Known as the 'Angel of Death' Dulcie Markham reportedly "saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history". Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to: mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: chickstory_podcast Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcie_Markham https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/leigh-straw-2019/111...

This weeks chick in history is a kickass young woman from Afghanistan, who didn't like what was to become of her, so made some changes. Her name is Sonita Alizadeh Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to: mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast Link: https://youtu.be/n65w1DU8cGU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonita_Alizadeh https://www...

Lise Meitner was heralded by Einstein as the Marie Curie of the German-speaking world. She was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission but was excluded from the Nobel Prize for the discovery! NB: this ep was recorded during lockdown so please forgive the sound! Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to: mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chic...

Irena Sendler was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. What she achieved during the second world war was simply hard to believe. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to: mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @chickstory_podcast https://en.wikipedia....

Isabel Flick OAM was an incredible Aboriginal community activist who spent her life standing up for Aboriginal rights. What Isobel lacked in academia (Aborginal children were forbidden to attend school until 1947) she made up for in tenacity and determinedness. NB: this episode was recorded during lockdown so the sound may be a little wonky! Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email...

Hedy Lemarr was one of the biggest stars of the silver screen - Snow White was modelled on her and she inspired the character of Catwoman. But Hedy leaves a legacy that many don't know about. She created something that has changed the world as we know it today. Got an amazing chick in history story of your own? Email your Chickstory to - mychickstory@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram - chickstory_p...