Kate Lister
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning. https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the completely spectacular Stephanie Budin about her work on the origins of Aphrodite.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the completely spectacular Stephanie Budin about her work on the origins of Aphrodite.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
I booked to meet my mate and her toddler at a soft play near me but she’s had to cancel suddenly and they don’t refund the fee. I can’t… I can’t go on my own, can I? That’s not allowed, is it? A 43 year old woman in a ball pit by herself?
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I booked to meet my mate and her toddler at a soft play near me but she’s had to cancel suddenly and they don’t refund the fee. I can’t… I can’t go on my own, can I? That’s not allowed, is it? A 43 year old woman in a ball pit by herself?
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I'm buying warm socks, leggings, pjs, thermals and knickers for sex workers this winter. Ive done the first bag. If you want to support this and help out, let me know!
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'm buying warm socks, leggings, pjs, thermals and knickers for sex workers this winter. Ive done the first bag. If you want to support this and help out, let me know!
If you had the money, would you get a Kris Jenner “forever 35 facelift”?
I am investigating what that would mean - and how much it would cost.
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I am investigating what that would mean - and how much it would cost.
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I'm 44 and already want a facelift
In the interest of serious journalism, I have been investigating what that would entail
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November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you had the money, would you get a Kris Jenner “forever 35 facelift”?
I am investigating what that would mean - and how much it would cost.
inews.co.uk/opinion/im-4...
I am investigating what that would mean - and how much it would cost.
inews.co.uk/opinion/im-4...
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the one and only Mimi Pond about her new book on the #MitfordSisters.
And you thought your family was mental. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
And you thought your family was mental. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the one and only Mimi Pond about her new book on the #MitfordSisters.
And you thought your family was mental. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
And you thought your family was mental. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Roma Agrawal and Kate Lister
A structural engineer and a historian of sex share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the complètement incroyable Dr Estelle Paranque about her doubts that #HenryVIII really did have an affair with Anne’s sister, Mary.
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Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the complètement incroyable Dr Estelle Paranque about her doubts that #HenryVIII really did have an affair with Anne’s sister, Mary.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to Rosie Gailor about her research on the work and life of #RoaldDahl and asking if you can ever separate the art from the artist.
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Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to Rosie Gailor about her research on the work and life of #RoaldDahl and asking if you can ever separate the art from the artist.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
I swear my mate just told me her toddler has foot and mouth disease. In my role of child free auntie, I have no idea how to help. Do I send a get well soon card, or help her burn the farm down to stop the infection spreading???
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I swear my mate just told me her toddler has foot and mouth disease. In my role of child free auntie, I have no idea how to help. Do I send a get well soon card, or help her burn the farm down to stop the infection spreading???
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'cast your mind back over your dating history and then ask yourself how good your gut instinct really is'
En vaak weet je het ergens ook wel, maar toch proberen, hè.
En vaak weet je het ergens ook wel, maar toch proberen, hè.
If Traitors taught us anything it’s this, don’t trust your gut. Your gut is an idiot.
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The reason you can never tell if someone is lying to you
Despite our 'gut' being unreliable to say the least, we often prefer to follow it
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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
'cast your mind back over your dating history and then ask yourself how good your gut instinct really is'
En vaak weet je het ergens ook wel, maar toch proberen, hè.
En vaak weet je het ergens ook wel, maar toch proberen, hè.
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Opinion | It gives us a great deal of comfort to believe we have innate instincts that can wheedle out a social menace and spot a liar on sight, but the truth is that we don’t
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Read more: trib.al/RFqEXaB
🖋 @k8lister.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/RFqEXaB
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Opinion | It gives us a great deal of comfort to believe we have innate instincts that can wheedle out a social menace and spot a liar on sight, but the truth is that we don’t
🖋 @k8lister.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/RFqEXaB
🖋 @k8lister.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/RFqEXaB
If Traitors taught us anything it’s this, don’t trust your gut. Your gut is an idiot.
inews.co.uk/opinion/know...
inews.co.uk/opinion/know...
The reason you can never tell if someone is lying to you
Despite our 'gut' being unreliable to say the least, we often prefer to follow it
inews.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If Traitors taught us anything it’s this, don’t trust your gut. Your gut is an idiot.
inews.co.uk/opinion/know...
inews.co.uk/opinion/know...
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to Helen Carr about possibly the most toxic royal marriage in medieval Britain, Edward II of England and Queen Isabella of France… and Hugh Despenser.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to Helen Carr about possibly the most toxic royal marriage in medieval Britain, Edward II of England and Queen Isabella of France… and Hugh Despenser.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking all things #VanGogh with the marvellous Teio Meedendorp from the VanGogh Museum
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking all things #VanGogh with the marvellous Teio Meedendorp from the VanGogh Museum
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
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😍😍 OMG, wonderful episode & crying out to be dramatised in the style of Sally Wainwright’s #RiotWomen @k8lister.bsky.social
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Who was the Husband Poisoner of Renaissance Italy?
Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 07/11/2025 · 35m
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November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
😍😍 OMG, wonderful episode & crying out to be dramatised in the style of Sally Wainwright’s #RiotWomen @k8lister.bsky.social
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Really very highly recommend you listen this episode of @k8lister.bsky.social's show that covers the origin of Frankestein, or rather some of the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rotten little nepo bitch.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Really very highly recommend you listen this episode of @k8lister.bsky.social's show that covers the origin of Frankestein, or rather some of the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rotten little nepo bitch.
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the incomparable Cathryn Kemp about her work on the Italian, mass husband poisoner, Giulia Tofana 💀☠️🍾🪦
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the incomparable Cathryn Kemp about her work on the Italian, mass husband poisoner, Giulia Tofana 💀☠️🍾🪦
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You should absolutely go find this if you, like me and all right-thinking people, enjoy telling Percy Bysshe Shelley to fuck off into the sun.
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
You should absolutely go find this if you, like me and all right-thinking people, enjoy telling Percy Bysshe Shelley to fuck off into the sun.
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the Frankentastic Fiona Sampson about the life and loves of #MaryShelley
The Tilberi were the pets of #Icelandic witches and you can see them in the #Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and #Witchcraft, where I visited as part of the new film on History Hit, Witchmen: the Icelandic age of ice and fire.
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Tilberi were the pets of #Icelandic witches and you can see them in the #Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and #Witchcraft, where I visited as part of the new film on History Hit, Witchmen: the Icelandic age of ice and fire.
I love people who know how to get stains out of clothes. Not dry cleaners, that’s their job, I mean the woman who tears across the street and kicks the door in to tell you that you need to soak an ink stain with hand sanitiser before washing it on a low heat. Those people have seen some shit.
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I love people who know how to get stains out of clothes. Not dry cleaners, that’s their job, I mean the woman who tears across the street and kicks the door in to tell you that you need to soak an ink stain with hand sanitiser before washing it on a low heat. Those people have seen some shit.
When some tailgating jerk aggressively overtakes, only to have to cut in front of you because it wasn’t safe to overtake - and then you get to sit right behind him for miles with both of you knowing his prick move was completely pointless? 10/10
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
When some tailgating jerk aggressively overtakes, only to have to cut in front of you because it wasn’t safe to overtake - and then you get to sit right behind him for miles with both of you knowing his prick move was completely pointless? 10/10
Anything under 20% off should not be allowed to call itself a “sale.” Don’t be sending me excited emails about your “flash sale” to only knock 5% off your jumpers.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Anything under 20% off should not be allowed to call itself a “sale.” Don’t be sending me excited emails about your “flash sale” to only knock 5% off your jumpers.
As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”
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Everyone forgets the male witches.
My latest documentary with History Hit looks at the witch hunts in 17th century Iceland, where 93% of those condemned as witches were men. Now available at historyhit.com (free trial period available.)
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Everyone forgets the male witches.