Women of Science and Music: 30 Celebrations

As part of their extraordinary Echoes Minerva Scientifica project, electric voice theatre are producing a series of 30 short podcasts to celebrate history’s forgotten or unsung women of science and music. In each 15 minute episode scientists, historians and musicians come together to focus on one extraordinary woman and an original musical work is unveiled that pays tribute to her achievements. Many of the episodes shine a light on pioneering Essex women to accompany the Echoes from Essex festival celebrations.


Episode 12 The Queen of Slime Mould


Episode 11 An Engineer’s Daughter


Episode 10 The Ghost of Warley Place


Episode 9 Another Holst in Thaxted


Episode 8 Secrets of Bletchley Park


Episode 7 Windrush Medicine


Episode 6 A Magnificent Woman


Episode 5 A Sense of Engineering


Episode 4 Music for Marconi’s Secret Engineer


Episode 3: Two Doctors, One Hundred Years


Episode 2: An Unwelcome Guest


Women of Science & Music: 30 Celebrations - Episode 1


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