This week, Sara brings us the story of The Night Witches — the hastily trained, poorly equipped, all-female Russian Air Force unit who struck fear into the hearts of Nazis... but you'll have to check out the full episode to hear how!
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Broads You Should Know is hosted by Sam Eggers, Sara Gorsky, & Chloe Skye
IGs: @BroadsYouShouldKnow @SaraGorsky @SamLAEggers
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Chloe's other podcasts: "Modern Eyes with Skye and Stone" & "Skye and Stone do Television"
Sam's short: "Dickie & Bea"
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Produced by Chloe Skye & Jupiter Stone; Edited by Chloe Skye
Tomyris — Queen of the Massagetae Who Defeated Cyrus II [Sara Gorsky]
Izumo no Okuni — Inventor of Kabuki Theater [Steven Townshend]
Ernesta Drinker aka Commando Mary — Writer, Designer, and WW2 Radio Celebrity [Joe Lex]
Kadambini Ganguly — First Female Medical Doctor in India [Sara Gorsky]
reBROADcast: Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights Leader, Peace Advocate, & Wife of Martin Luther King Jr. [Sara Gorsky]
Sister Carrie Miller — Devoted Her Life to Empowering Families [Rev. Dr. Barbara Gorsky]
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Charlotte Cushman — World-Famous 19th Century Actor [Dawn Alden]
bell hooks — Profound Writer, Theorist, Scholar and Architect of Modern Feminism [Sara Gorsky]
Mary Seacole — Jamaican-British Nurse and REAL Mother of War Hospital Sanitation Practices [Adrian Snow]
Sarah Winchester — Millionaire Heiress, Builder of the Winchester Mystery House & Supernatural Legend [Sara Gorsky]
Khutulun Khan (aka Turandot) — The Mongolian Warrior Princess & Wrestling Champion [Sara Gorsky]
Na Hye-sok — Korean Artist, Writer and Radical Feminist [Earl T. Kim]
Yu Gwan-sun — Korean Teenaged Activist Who Fought for Independence [Sara Gorsky]
Dr. Paulina Luisi — First Female Uruguayan Doctor & Feminist Leader [Sara Gorsky]
Valiant Ladies of Potosí — Teenage Peruvian Vigilantes of the 1600s [Dawn ”Sam” Alden]
Policarpa ”La Pola” Salavarietta — Columbian Revolutionary Spy Whose Voice Inspired Liberty [Sara Gorsky]
Hatshepsut — Pharaoh Who Restored Glory to Egypt and was Erased from History [Zach Livingston]
Vishpala — First Known Female Warrior and Prosthetics Recipient in Human History [Sara Gorsky]
Half-Hanged Mary — The Woman Who Survived Multiple Witch Accusations and a Puritan Lynching Attempt [Caitlin Parrish]
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