🎧 Feminine Power: Divine to Demonic
🎧 Betwixt the Sheets • 32m
From goddesses to demons, witches to saints, women have held power of many shapes and sizes throughout history and around the world. Whether they were bringers of chaos, salvation, desire or justice, this year these women are being given the spotlight.
On this Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Kate went to see the British Museum’s new exhibition ‘Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic’.
Curator Belinda Crerar joins Kate Betwixt the Sheets to explore some of the most powerful items on show, and the women that they represent.
More information on the exhibition can be found here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/feminine-power-divine-demonic#explore-feminine-power
*WARNING this episode includes themes of an adult nature*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Annie Coloe.
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