Picture the softest image you can imagine: a little bunny in a blue jacket radiating cozy Victorian innocence. Now shatter it. The woman behind Peter Rabbit was a secret code-writing teenager, a dismissed scientific pioneer, a cutthroat retail entrepreneur, and a mud-booted conservationist who helped save the English Lake District.

This episode explores the deeply human story of Helen Beatrix Potter navigating and conquering the extreme restrictions placed on Victorian women. We follow her from an isolated London schoolroom full of bats and hedgehogs to groundbreaking fungi research, a pioneering merchandising empire, and a final act of large-scale land conservation.

• The intricate substitution cipher she invented at 14, so complex it wasn't cracked until 1958
• Her original theories on fungal spore germination, rejected by  ...