Episode #85: Nellie Bly - a podcast by Sandhaug Productions

Dagens tema er Nellie Bly (født Elisbeth Jane Cochran 1864-1922). Her tar Henrik over ansvaret for å finne fakta og har med seg tre kapitler fra hennes mest kjente bøker. Her finner vi blant annet: Six Months In Mexico (1888), Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) og Ten Days In A Madhouse (1887). Vi får også høre en trailer til filmatisering av sistnevnte fra 2015). Den 22. September 1887 fikk hun en beskjed av redaktøren i The New York World om å infiltrere sinnsykehuset på Blackwell`s Island som idag heter Roosevelt Island for å raportere om det fra innsiden. Her gikk hun under pseudonymet "Nellie Brown" for å unngå å bli gjenkjent av pasienter og personell. Dette skulle hun gå ned i de amerikanske historiebøkene for å ha gjort. Hun giftet seg med en sytti år gammel fabrikkarbieder hun møtte på et tog i 1895. De fikk ingen barn Nellie Blys ektemann døde den 28. mars 1904 og etterlot seg bedriften sin. Nellie døde selv av lungebettelse i 1922. Det er også duket for NRK best of. God Lytting!

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Today's topic is Nellie Bly (born Elisabeth Jane Cochran 1864-1922). Here Henrik takes over the responsibility of providing facts and brings three chapters from her most famous books. Here we find: Six Months In Mexico (1888), Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890), and Ten Days In A Madhouse (1887). We also hear a trailer for the film adaptation of the event from 2015. On September 22, 1887, she was told by the editor of The New York World to infiltrate the asylum on Blackwell`s Island, which is present-day Roosevelt Island, to report on it from the inside. Here she went by the pseudonym "Nellie Brown" to avoid being recognized by patients and staff. She would later go down in American history for doing this. She married a seventy-year-old factory worker she met on a train in 1895. They had no children. Nellie Bly's husband died on March 28, 1904, leaving his business behind. Nellie herself died of pneumonia in 1922. It is also prepared for NRK best of. Happy Listening!  

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