Category Archives: Interviews

For Your Listening Pleasure: “Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman” and “The Bare Fists of Boxing”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 3rd February 2012 The Art of Manliness website presents a podcast interview with David Waller, author of the new biography The Perfect Man: the Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Stongman.  Sandow … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu on BBC3 Radio’s “A Time Traveller’s Dictionary”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 22nd March 2019 Dr. Naomi Paxton offers a brief but highly accurate summary of Bartitsu in this new edition of BBC3’s Time Travellers podcast series. Dr. Paxton also has a longstanding interest in suffrajitsu and has previously offered … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Instructor James Marwood Interviewed in “American Express Essentials”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 7th March 2019 Click here to read journalist Jessica Keller’s recent interview with Bartitsu instructor James Marwood for American Express Essentials Magazine: Q – What are a Bartitsu practitioner’s most trusty weapons or resources? … Continue reading →

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Jujitsuffragette interview on BBC World Service Radio Show

Posted on December 11, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 29th August 2012 Click here to listen to Tony Wolf’s interview about the Jujitsuffragette Bodyguards with reporter Julian Bedford for the BBC World Service.

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Interview with Will Thomas

Posted on February 10, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 14th June 2011 Author Will Thomas was the founder of the Bartitsu Forum email list (where all the cool kids hang out) and was among the interview subjects in the recent documentary Bartitsu: the Lost … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Featured on National Radio in Germany

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 26th April 2011 Bartitsu instructor Stefan Dieke was recently interviewed by reporter Nico Rau for Germany’s DRadio Wissen. The item included a discussion of the origins, downfall and modern revival of the “gentlemanly art … Continue reading →

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