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Media and Talks

Television

Appearance on ‘Inside Versailles’ with Kate Williams and Greg Jenner, broadcast on BBC 2 (May 2017)

Appearance on ‘Heston’s Recipe for Romance’, broadcast on Channel 4 (February 2015).

Podcasts

Betwixt the Sheets with Dr Kate Lister (12 August 2025)

‘New Books Network’ podcast, (2 March 2024)

‘Dirty, Sexy History’ Podcast with Jessica Cale (January 2024)

Call Me Curious, a Wondery podcast with Nikki Boyer, ‘Can Aphrodisiacs Really Turn You On’.

In conversation with Reddit/AskHistorians. Sara Read and I talk about early modern medicine and women’s health issues.

Youtube

Authors at Google talk on ‘Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in early modern England’ delivered on the 4 August 2015. Available on Youtube:

Guest on the British Museum Pleasant Vices series hosted by Tasha Marks of AVM Curiosities

Radio

BBC Radio Four, ‘The Food Programme: Love on a Plate’ (11 February 2024 – longer version repeated 12 February 2024 and available on BBC Sounds) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w6yj

BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’. 7 December 2017

Spanish fly, chemsex and ‘female Viagra:’ why drugs and sex don’t always mix. ‘On Drugs’ with Geoff Turner, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 25 July 2017.

North Manchester Radio, Hannah’s Bookshelf. Broadcast 24 June 2017.

Soho Radio, Science Mixtape. Broadcast 15 October 2016.

BBC World Service programme The Food Chain talking about ‘Fertile Foods’. Broadcast on Saturday 6 August 2016.

I have been interviewed on the Mark Forrest Show for BBC Local Radio and on BBC Radio Wiltshire.

Print Media

‘A Taste for Strange Meats and Husbands’ buttocks’, BBC History Magazine (Christmas 2020).

‘Snuffs and Sneezes Cure Diseases’, History Today (January 2019).

Meet the Authors Interview, Your Family History Magazine (September 2017).

‘Coughs, Sneezes & Dead Diseases’, I News (August 2017). Syndicated in the Yorkshire Post ‘Horrid Coughs and Sneezes and Dead Diseases (August 2017).

‘Goats Dung, Mummified Flesh and Vomiting’, Shakespeare Magazine (July 2017).

‘Shameful Secrets, men’s sexual health’, History Today (January 2016).

‘When Beans were the Food of Lust’, BBC History Magazine (April 2014).

Interviewed for ‘Fertility Towns: Is there ever something in the water?’, BBC Magazine

Events

Pleasant Vices Panel Discussion with AVM Curiosities, Paul A. Young and Susan Boyle (British Museum, 25 May 2018).

Dialogue: Modern Love – What is at the Heart of the Matter? (Lights of Soho, 8 February 2017). Jugular Productions

Invited Talks

University of Winchester, Centre for Medical Humanities public seminar series, 23 November 2017.

Delivered the Hitchin Historical Society annual Miss Lewis Lecture, 13 July 2016

Speaker at the Chalke Valley Schools History Festival, 28 June 2016

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