5.18 Manuela Sáenz (3) The Unburied Woman of Paita
/Manuela Saenz makes one last desperate effort to bring her lover back to power while the Liberator wastes away, trying and failing to escape his labyrinth.
5.17 Manuela Sáenz (2) The Liberator of the Liberator
/Manuela Sáenz returns to Simón Bolívar's side in Bogota as he struggles to hold his dream together and assassins close in.
5.16 Manuela Sáenz (1) La Libertadora
/Simon Bolivar is celebrated as the Liberator of five. And by his side was one of history's great forgotten female revolutionaries.
5.15 Sally Hemings (2) Sally's Choice
/Sally arrives in France on the eve of Revolution and into a sexual relationship with her enslaver begins - leading to a fateful choice that would change her life forever.
5.14 Sally Hemings (1) Keeping it in the family
/Not all rulers are monarchs, and not all mistresses consented to sleeping with rulers. The relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is one of the most controversial in American history - this is how it starts.
5.13 Madame de Pompadour (3) After us, the Flood
/As the sexual side of her relationship with Louis XV ended, Reinette would need to find new ways to remain in power - all the while, a new enemy emerged from across the Rhine.
5.12 Madame de Pompadour (2) The Fishes Daughter
/Reinette solidifies her position as the maitresse-en-titre to Louis, but. in doing so, creates some powerful enemies.
5.11 Madame de Pompadour (1) The little Queen
/A mother takes her daughter to see a fortune teller, who tells her that she would grow up to sleep with the King of France.
5.10 Hortense Mancini (2) Queen of the Amazons
/Hortense travels to England and seduces a King. And his daughter.
5.09 Hortense Mancini (1) The runaway Mazarinette
/A woman born in Italy, raised in the court of the Sun King and who would become the mistress of England’s most famous womanising monarch.
5.08 Roxelana (3) A tale of two princes
/Roxelana goes to even more extraordinary lengths to protect her family, but even she would not be able to keep cracks from opening up.
5.07 Roxelana (2) From 'sold meat' to Sultana
/Roxelana picks a fight with a rival and has another killed. She was playing for keeps.
5.06 Roxelana (1) Revolutionary monogamy
/Sold into slavery at a young age, Roxelana would tear up the rule book in the Imperial harem in Istanbul.
5.05 Lady Nijo: The confessions of a concubine
/After losing her parents at a young age, Lady Nijo is sent to be the concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa. But if he expected her to knuckle under, he would be sorely disappointed.
5.04 Servilia (2) The mother of an honourable man
/As the Roman Republic entered its death spiral - Servilia would have to choose between her son and the man she loved.
5.03 Servilia (1) Lover of Caesar
/The decline and fall of the Roman Republic is one of history's great epics - with a colourful cast of characters that have become household names. All of them men. All, except one.
5.02 Aspasia of Miletus: Notorious woman of Athens
/The teacher of Socrates and the lover of Pericles - Aspasia of Miletus came to Athens with nothing, but left quite a legacy.
5.01 Rulers' mistresses: History's other women
/In the fifth season of the Other Half Podcast, we are looking at Rulers' Mistresses: a cross-cultural story of extra-marital love and lust, bringing ten women, who so often existed in the shadows, into the light.
4.26 Pascalina Lehnert (2) The powerful virgin
/Pascalina helps propel Pius XII to the papacy, becoming his right-hand woman and the most powerful woman in Vatican history.
4.25 Pascalina Lehnert (1) Dealing with devils
/Pascalina would come a long way from her family farm in Bavaria, becoming the right-hand woman to a man who would become Pope just as Europe slipped towards war.