Podcast EI Portraits

EI Portraits

Our writers profile individuals, some well-known, some overlooked, and explore how they shaped the world as we know it. Read by Sebastian Brown.

An 18th-century portrait of Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony, by Peter Jacob Horemans.
Woman Playing a Piano, by Winifred Nicholson. Her work was championed by Helen Sutherland.
President John F. Kennedy (left, in rocking chair) meets the newly-appointed US Ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee.
Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura yells to the crowd at his People's Inauguration in Minneapolis.
A print of Heinrich Biber
An excerpt from Nehemiah Wallington's diary
Anna Komnene, a Byzantine princess and scholar.
Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica.
Comte Lanjuinais speaks at a febrile meeting of the National Convention, 1793.