Women's Institute
Shown at the organisation’s headquarters. It was mentioned on the show, but not as a specific place, so the pin marks its home base.
On the show · 6 mentions total
The first president of the UK's Women's Institute used a frying pan as a whip, wore an entire stuffed owl on her head, and officially named the city of Canberra.
from No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 at 00:18:01 · read transcript
Other times Women's Institute came up
Someone else came up with the idea, but she was the one who chose it. She was the official name. Did you know that Australia had a King O'Malley? It was in 1911, there was a competition to design the new capital. They were going with the working title, Federal Capital City. Then two years later, King decided to suggest people in Parliament put forward names for it.
126: No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
No, but there were 17 herders, and they were all posing in the altogether to raise money for the Ken Gorms Mountain Rescue Team. Do we approve of this? Like, I don't mind that group of, what were they, Women's Institute, people doing it the first time. You've repeatedly turned down my idea, James, for a fish nude calendar where we're all hiding behind facts This trend of people doing this?
No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 · listen
Then eventually it got turned, oh, quite soon afterwards, actually, it got turned into the movie Calendar Girls. It wasn't actually a Women's Institute calendar. It was done outside of the Women's Institute because it's illegal for one charity to raise money for another charity. The money was going to leukemia research. They had to do it kind of outside of the rules a little bit.
No Such Thing As Ultrasonic Shark Welding, 2026-10-15 · listen
Yeah. Then eventually it got turned, oh, quite soon afterwards, actually, it got turned into the movie Calendar Girls. It wasn't actually a Women's Institute calendar. It was done outside of the Women's Institute because it's illegal for one charity to raise money for another charity. The money was going to leukemia research.
No Such Thing As Ultrasonic Shark Welding, 2026-10-15 · listen
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No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn put 3 places on the map.
- North Devon · United Kingdom
- Pleasance Theatre · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 53.2220, -4.2130