Round 62 - Secret Identities

This week the girls take aim at... Secret Identities

Sarah opens the topic with a quick google on what a secret identity is. It turns out that it's just a simple way of saying pseudonym. 

Sarah then goes on to explain what a pseudonym is and where the word came from and some famous people who have shed their birth names in place of a pseudonym. Sarah struggled to say that word so we are going with secret identities as our topic title.

Sarah chose Margaritha Zelle as her subject for the night. A divorced mother of two who gave up married life to become one of the world's first exotic dancers going by the name Mata Hari. She danced for some of the world's most influential and powerful people making new friends and lovers wherever she went. That was until the day she was asked to be a spy for France. She was arrested and accused of being a double agent. She was later executed by firing squad. But what happened to her body?

Amy decided to discuss the incredible life of Mrs. Nancy Wake. Nancy was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia at the age of two. At the age of 16, she left school to become a nurse. Finding this profession to be less than glamourous she decided to leave Australia and become a journalist in England. She later met and married a French industrialist and was living in Marseilles when the second world war broke out. 

After the war broke out Nancy vowed to do whatever she could to help the allied forces and the French resistance. Nancy was forced to leave her home, her husband and flee to England where she began training with the British Special Operations Executive (S.O.E). Nancy's efforts during the war were nothing short of heroic and we at Friday Night Wine Fight salute her.

Bianca ends the show with some fictional secret identities from DC comic books with Robin and Wonder Girl. She then goes into films where the characters use secret identities for a number of reasons. Either they are an actor trying to hide who they are or they're in a secret club that they can't talk about. They may even be a criminal on the run. One thing is for sure, Bianca had done her homework and had quite the list for us.

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Episode edited by Sarah

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