Josephine Monaghan is a woman who's captured the public imagination in the United States - for being a man. She left her home in the East in the 1800s and made her way to Silver City Idaho where she worked as a miner, disguised as a man.
Her story has become the subject of a new musical The Ballad of Little Jo. The lyrics are by Sarah Schlesinger who runs the graduate musical theatre course at NYU in New York. Sarah Schlesinger joins Martha to tell her why the real Josephine Monaghan decide to become Jo. 'The Ballad of Little Jo' is on at the Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane (off Fleet St), London EC4 until 26 July 2003. Box Office 020 7936 3456.
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