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In her radio play, Frances Poet nimbly links the groundbreaking struggles of Sophia Jex-Blake with the story of her biographer
Sophia is the story of Scotland’s first female doctor and her groundbreaking campaign against a hostile, all-male medical establishment. She not only directs one’s gaze to forgotten women’s stories, but questions the biographical process itself: how a life is depicted on paper, who depicts it, what is included and what is left out.
The playwright Frances Poet intertwines in this radio play that is part of the Soundstage Row of the Pitlochry Festival Theater and the Royal Lyceum Theater in Edinburgh.
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