Join sex historian Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that woul
Charismatic, passionate, insatiable - Henry VIII is known across the world as the king who had 6 wiv
Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dic
We've been tying the knot for thousands of years in one way or another, but what did a medieval wedd
How did a working class illiterate woman become King Charles II's favourite mistress?Nell Gwyn was a
Have you ever heard of the Emperor who made his horse a senator? Seems like a top bloke, right? Toda
Today, it is one of the most commonly performed surgeries. But when was the hysterectomy, the remova
How 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' was Lord Byron really?We know the Romantic poet had a bit of a
Possibly the first recorded sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea is still one of the most common
For better or (mostly) worse, Jiang Qing left her mark on the 20th century.Even before she was marri
When the music hall dancer, Belle Ellmore, disappeared in January 1910, it was her performing collea
Nadezhda Alliluyeva was born into a revolutionary family, but was it always her fate to marry Joseph
In this episode, we're well and truly going down a rabbit hole. To unpick the controversies surround
What was life like as Adolf Hitler's other half?Although their marriage came (very) late in their li
Travel back to post-WW1 London, when sex, drugs and music was exploding in Soho... causing a nationa
What was life like to be married to Genghis Khan?In this new limited series, Real Wives of Dictators
When we think about Greek and Roman beauty, we think of marble statues of huge men with tiny...feet.
Michelangelo made religion sexy.That may not have been his initial aim, of course, but the way he po
When and why did Soho become a hedonistic hotspot, the home of sex, drugs and music?Kate is Betwixt
Between 1860 and 1925, tens of thousands of women worked in Dublin's Monto, the largest red light di
Dark ideas and stigma around different body sizes really took hold in the Enlightenment.Very unenlig
