Julie Wheelwright
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526 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Julie Wheelwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm great, thank you.
And I'm, you know, I'm always happy to talk about Mata Hari because she's such an extraordinary and fascinating character.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, where to begin with this story?
I mean, I think that one of the things about Matari is that she sort of lives out her dream.
She is someone who undergoes this extraordinary transformation, and her story is all about...
her body and it's about sexuality and it's about how women can take control of that.
But at the same time, she's also someone who was very much exploited by men and abused by men.
And she also becomes a symbol after, well, actually during the First World War because she's executed by the French on espionage charges in 1917.
And, you know, she's executed by a firing squad in Paris.
There's no body.
Rumors fly around the city about what happened to her.
And she becomes this symbol, a sort of...
A kind of dual symbol, I think.
One of this sort of almost libertine woman who has stood up in a court in Paris and said, yes, I sleep with lots of different men.
And so what?
It's a pleasure for me to sleep with different men of different nations and even compare.
even compare different nationalities.
I mean, that was such a raucously outrageous thing to say.
It would be today.
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