Julie Wheelwright

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

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

So she was booked in to do this long run at the Metropole Theater.

And so none of that is happening, but she spent money on her costumes and she owes a lot of people a lot of money.

And so her jeweler and her furrier just withhold.

They say, well, you're not getting your things back until you've paid us.

So she's got no money, and where is she going to go?

The other thing is, obviously, she can't go back to Paris.

That suddenly has become incredibly complicated.

So she goes back to Holland.

And there's one story which sort of illustrates just...

I don't know.

I mean, maybe you've come across this, Kate, like women who are, they're just so ingenious.

There's a kind of madness, almost madness to their ability to invent and imagine.

And it kind of gets them out of a scrape, but it creates another scrape for them.

Okay.

So she goes, she goes, she finds herself in Amsterdam.

She hasn't got any money.

She knows people.

And one of the men that she hooks up with is, so she goes into a church, probably because there's nowhere else to go and she's trying to figure out what the hell to do.

And this man comes up to her and says, assumes for some reason that she's not Dutch, that she's a foreigner.

And she tells him that she's Russian.

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