Julie Wheelwright

speaker

526 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

Julie Wheelwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: First World War Spy Mata Hari · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And so together they come up with this performance and the performance was, you know, she's going to appear as Mata Hari and she's going to educate the Parisian elite about Asiatic religion and art.

And so he lends her these beautiful costumes and the jewels and she dances in the sort of marble room

On the marble floor with its marble pillars and a statue of Shiva.

And she's got her handmaidens around her.

There's incense flowing.

And Paris is just, wow.

You know, it's a huge, she's a huge overnight success.

Yeah.

It was terribly exotic and also she was showing off her gorgeous body.

I mean, that was part of it too.

Yeah.

Well, you know, this is one of the things that I find so interesting about women of this period.

So Mata Hari was so aware of how to promote herself.

I mean, she was really good at it.

You know, she understood that you get good studio photographs.

You have postcards made.

You're seen in all the right places.

And so there was a kind of system at the time where, you know, if you were a woman of the theater, a woman of the stage, you could go to a dress designer, for example, and, you know, make an arrangement that you would be seen in public wearing their design.

So it was a form of advertising, really.

Absolutely.

Showing 221–240 of 526 · page 12 of 27