SPEAKERS:
Anya Pearson – Chair, Mary Anning Rocks
Denise Dutton – Sculptor
Emma Bernard – Palaeontologist, Curator of Fossil Fish, Natural History Museum
Tom Sharpe – Biographer of Mary Anning – “The Fossil Woman” (www.dovecotepress.com/shop/biographi…by-tom-sharpe/)

MUSIC:

Frances M Lynch “NOT Mary Anning – She sells sea shells (fossils!) on the sea shore” (2017) for mixed voices; Tongue Twister Song by Terry Sullivan – 1908; performed by the composer and singers from ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE – Jenny Miller (Mezzo), Laurence Panter (Tenor), Gwion Thomas (Baritone)

Judith Bingham “Mary Anning, a history and a mystery” (2012) for solo voice, gravel and rocks – a study of the famous Victorian palaeontologist; words by Mary Anning, Molly Anning, Alfred Lord Tennyson and many more…; performed by Frances M Lynch

Judith Weir “I started Early – Took my Dog” from “On the Palmy Beach” (2019) for Soprano, Cello & Piano; words by Emily Dickinson; performed by Frances M Lynch (voice & instruments realised at the keyboard)

Winners of the 2022 Mary Anning Children’s Song Competition “A Song for Mary Anning” (2022), produced & arranged by Frances M Lynch & Herbie Clarke: Music and words by Cohen Baulch age 9; Year 3, Newton Poppleford Primary School; Sarah Mirkin age 8; Mabel Slade age 11; Class 1, Hawkchurch Church of England Primary School; Beech Class, Payhembury Primary School: – performed by Mrs Ethelston’s Primary Academy Choir and Cohen Baulch

We hope you enjoy the little tasters of the wide range of her vocal music we've recorded for this podcast. You can hear the full works soon on our website
www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/eliza-flower/

The MUSIC by Eliza Flower is performed by members of the ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE and our Virtual Choir.

“Now Pray We for our Country” Words by A. Cleveland Coxe

Songs of the Months:
March “Wind & Clouds” Words by Sarah Flower Adams
February "St Valentine's Day" Words by Charles Pemberton

Songs of the Seasons: “Spring”

Free Trade Songs of the Seasons: Words by Sarah Flower Adams
“Spring – The Descent of the Lark”
“Winter – Promise”

“The Gathering of the Unions – March & Song” Words by Harriet Martineau
“The Barons Bold, On Runnymede” Words by William J. Fox

Hymns and Anthems
“Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter” Words by Ebenezer Elliott
"Nearer My God To Thee" Words by Sarah Flower Adams

SPEAKERS: (University of Sussex)
Professor Louise Serpell – Serpell Lab, School of Life Sciences
Dr Karen Marshall – Serpell Lab, School of Life Sciences
Prof. Professor Nicholas Till – Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre

MUSIC:
“Miss Amy-Lloyd Folding” (The Amyloid Hypothesis) by Frances M Lynch – a poem for 3 female voices – the singers from electric voice theatre are Frances M Lynch, Soprano, and Samantha Houston and Margaret Cameron, Mezzos; the sound was produced by Herbie Clarke and Frances M Lynch

“Misfolding Through the Looking Glass” by Shu Yang – a recorded work created from natural and digital sounds.

“In Here” by Kira Ramchaitar-Husbands – a soundscape which employs recordings of found sounds eg. tissue paper, cardboard and tinfoil, contrasting with starkly synthesised textures.

“Scarbled Words” by Antonia Redding – for solo silent performer with recorded natural sounds and voices.

“Misfolding for Dummies” by Frances M Lynch – for speaker and recorded digital ensemble

www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/misfolding/

MUSIC
“Miriam” (2013) an opera by KAREN WIMHURST for solo voice and bass clarinet; Written in association with Peter Smithers, FRES, and Dr. Ruth Gilbert; Words by Miriam Rothschild; performed by Frances M Lynch (voice) and Karen Wimhurst (bass clarinet); first performed in Sept 2013, St Andrew’s University, Scotland, part of Ento ’13, the Royal Entomological Society International Symposium and Annual National Science Meeting

Image: Flea Siphonaptera Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) Mycologist and Author
We all love Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and others - but author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter, was also a scientist who made important discoveries. In her early years, she was passionately interested in mycology, studying fungi (mushrooms) and ferns with the help of a Scottish Postman!!! She was not treated well by some men scientists so she stopped her studies - a loss to mycology but a gain for children’s literature and conservation, as the money earned from her books allowed Beatrix Potter to leave a legacy for the protection of the countryside in the Lake District National Park!
https://minervascientifica.co.uk/beatrix-potter/

SPEAKERS:
Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of Scotland
Professor Lynne Boddy – Fungal Ecology Group, Cardiff University

MUSIC:
"Beatrix Potter and the Postman" (2018) by Frances M Lynch for unaccompanied voices and female and soloist; words by Frances M Lynch in collaboration with Catherine Booth; recorded at live performances by KILLIN, KENMORE and STROUD GREEN PRIMARY schools

"Without Fungi" (July 26th 2021) an acapella work in progress by Frances M Lynch in collaboration with Professor Lynne Boddy for female voices

Image: Fly Agaric by adege from Pixabay

SPEAKERS:
Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of Scotland
Miranda Lowe – Principal Curator (Crustacea) and museum scientist at the Natural History Museum

MUSIC:
“The Grand Old Lady of Carcinology” (May 15th 2021) an acapella limerick by Frances M Lynch for 3 female and 1 male voice; words by Frances M Lynch, Dr A.J. Bateman & Dr Isabella Gordon; performed, recorded & produced by the composer & Herbie Clarke especially for this podcast

Image: - Crayfish and Two Shrimps by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1835-1845 - Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Public Domain

SPEAKERS:
Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of Scotland
Dr Emily G. Mitchell – ​PI and NERC Independent Research Fellow Deep-time Ecology Group, University of Cambridge

MUSIC:
“The Voice of the Mountains” by Helen Hopekirk (1856 – 1945) for voice and piano, performed by Frances M Lynch and recorded especially for this podcast.

"TrowelBlazers –Time & Tide & Tectonics"  (2017) by Frances M Lynch
 for female voices and electronics, performed by the composer, produced by Herbie Clarke, commissioned for Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2017

Image by Nico Boersen from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/

SPEAKERS:
Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of Scotland
Mrs June Baxter – a member of Evelyn Baxter’s family

MUSIC:
Marie Dare (1902–1976 )
“A widow bird sate mourning” for SATB Unaccompanied Choir; words by Percy Bysshe Shelley; performed by Frances M Lynch, Francis St. John and Herbie Clarke
The Three Cherry Trees for voice and piano; words by Walter de la Mare; Margaret Cameron (Mezzo) and Frances M Lynch (Piano)
“The Grey Geese” for voice and piano; words by C. Ethel Evans; performed by Frances M Lynch

SPEAKERS:
Dr Patricia Fara – Science Historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge
Dr Sian Prosser – Librarian and Archivist Royal Astronomical Society
Dr Anna Lisa Varri – UKRI Future Leaders Fellow University of Edinburgh

Fara discusses Caroline Herschel’s discoveries and the connections with Varri’s work on globular clusters. Herschel’s observation notebooks from the RAS archive and music by Frances M Lynch “Epitaph for a Comet Hunter” are at the heart of the discussion.

Science Historian Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge, discusses the life and work of Lilian Bader with Warrant Officer Alison an Aeronautical Engineer from the RAF, whose stellar career will inspire anyone to take flight. Music by Amanda Ira Aldridge 
https://minervascientifica.co.uk/amanda-ira-aldridge/

MUSIC:
“Something More Than Mortal” by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
A setting of words by Ada Lovelace

“ADA BAB(BLE)” by Frances M Lynch
….a short history of women in computing….
Recorded THIS WEEK by electric voice theatre singers
Sopranos – Peyee Chen & Frances M Lynch
Mezzo – Jenny Miller
Countertenor – David Sheppard
Tenor – Julian Stocker
Written for the 200th Ada Lovelace centenary
First performed at the Science Museum London

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre.

Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” supported by the British Society for the History of Science https://www.bshs.org.uk/

SPEAKERS:
Dr Patricia Fara, Science Historian and Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge
Lelia Ferro, Poet
Megan Krempa, an upper-year honours student at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia

MUSIC, sung by electric voice theatre singers and the Essex Virtual Choir:

Imogen Holst (1907 - 1984) – “Set me as a seal upon thine heart” one of “Four Canons for Winsome” by Imogen Holst, a setting of texts from the Song of Songs Written in 1946 at Dartington Summer School and dedicated to a fellow teacher and close friend, Winsome Bartlett

Frances M Lynch - “Echoes from Essex” & “Fragments of Tollet”
The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre.

Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre and Essex 2020, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

SPEAKERS:
Dr Gothamie Weerakoon, Senior Curator of Lichens and Slime Moulds, Natural History Museum, London
Maureen Measure, Leyton Historic Society
Dr Patricia Fara, Science Historian and Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge

MUSIC, sung by electric voice theatre singers and the Essex Virtual Choir:
Imogen Holst (1907 - 1984) - “May Day Carol: The hedges and fields” from 20 Traditional British Folk Songs
Frances M Lynch - “O we’ll go this day a rugglin’”

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre. Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre and Essex 2020, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Trained at Cambridge University, Beryl Platt (1923-2015) was a distinguished engineer and campaigner for female education who worked on fighter aircraft during the Second World War. Her daughter, Vicky Platt, gives personal and intriguing insights into her mother's life and her own adventures in mathematics, physics and sailing!

Music, sung by electric voice theatre singers includes:
Nicola Lefanu - “The Story of I Love You” from “Rory’s Rounds”
Eliza Flower (1803 – 1846) “Now pray we for our country”  - for SATB acapella chorus

Now pray we for our country
that England long may be
the holy and the happy
and the gloriously free.......

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre. Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre.

Music, sung by electric voice theatre singers includes:

“The Moon of Heaven” by Elspeth Manders for vocal quartet; text from ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ commissioned by electric voice theatre Aug 2020

The Moon of Heaven is rising once again
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same garden after me – in vain

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre. Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre.

We explore her life and work with Judith Ratcliffe, Archivist at Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh, and Peter Donovan, Chairman of Thaxted Festival. We are grateful also to Thaxted researcher Michael Goatcher whose work has greatly informed this podcast.

You will hear three pieces by I. Holst, all of which are for unaccompanied voices, and, we believe, are recorded for the first time, hot off the press at evt headquarters in London from recordings made by the individual singers during lockdown.

“A Sweet Country Life” (1937) an arrangement of a Gloucestershire folk song collected by Cecil Sharp
“Round” (1926) on a poem by Cheng Hao (translated from the Chinese) for equal voices
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart” (1946) text from Song of Songs 8:6&7 one of the“Four Canons for Winsome”

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre. Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre. https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/echoes-from-essex/

The science historian is Catherine Booth and the music is from “A Cryptograhers Crossword” by Frances M Lynch sung by Margaret Cameron and myself, accompanied by the sound of the Bombe machine.
 Many thanks to Culture Perth and Kinross for inviting us to investigate the life of Jean Valentine during our Echoes from Perthshire project in 2019, and to the children of Letham and Errol Primary schools who made their own drums and became the bombe machine for our performances there. We would like to thank Bletchley Park and particularly the staff and volunteers at The National Museum of Computing for arranging a special visit to see and hear the bombe machine in action. Thanks also to Jean Valentine’s family for their help and support in creating a page for her on our website minervascientifica.co.uk/, and to Professor Sue Black, for helping us locate them, and for helping to make sure that Bletchley Park has survived for us all to visit.

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ and it was produced by Herbie Clarke at Birnam Studios, London as part of electric voice theatre‘s Minerva Scientifica – Connections 2020 project, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

The recorded interviews were made as part of an Evewright Arts Foundation project Caribbean Takeaway Takeover: Identities and Stories. We are grateful to Ionie Richards for permission to use the recordings and photographs and to Essex Record Office for their help in sourcing them. We are also grateful to Lindsey Williamson from the International Council of Nurses for her support.

We asked 6 engineers from Essex, past and present, to describe their work through the 5 senses. Their responses draw us into an unexpectedly diverse world of women in engineering:-

Florence Attridge (voiced by Emily Peplow from Chelmsford Civic Theatre) and Baroness Platt of Writtle (voiced by electric voice theatre’s Margaret Cameron) whose scripts were crafted with science historian Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge; Kay Silver from Essex & Suffolk Water; Sarah Clay and Ingrida Juraite from BAE Systems and Maryam Imani from Anglia Ruskin University.

Our song for International Women in Engineering Day is I want to be an Engineer and is sung by children from Letham Primary School in Perth.

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