Podcast Episodes

The Polaris Expedition - Two

Season 5

This week On Tales we return to the Arctic, the year 1871. Charles Francis Hall has passed on, mysteriously, after drinking a suspiciously sweet, yet metallic coffee. What will happen to the expediti…

Published on 4 hours ago

The Halifax Gibbet

Season 5

This week On Tales we take a slight detour from the Polaris Expedition: I think where that Tale goes IS shocking, but not terribly in a Halloween horror kind of way… So this week we’re taking a ride …

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Polaris Expedition - One

Season 5

This week On Tales we travel back to 1871, to take a journey to the top of the world. Our intrepid hero, Charles Francis Hall has dreams of becoming the first man to stand on the North Pole - but dre…

Published on 1 month ago

The Hammersmith Ghost

Season 5

Last week when I covered the Tale of Spring Heeled Jack, I mentioned a couple of people in passing without explanation… Apologies all, I’ll be coming back to a few of those people sometime in the nea…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Spring Heeled Jack

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to an episode from the first season to give it a new coat of (red) paint… speaking of, we’re going back to London in 1837 to discuss newspapers…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Murder in Belgravia

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we discuss a murdered nanny, the murderer… his awful ancestors, and said murderer’s mysterious disappearance. 

Trigger warnings: murder.   

Sources Inclu…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Batavia: Part Four - Batavia’s Graveyard

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return one last time to the wreck of the Batavia. This is where things, finally, go all ‘Lord of the Flies’ on Batavia’s Graveyard. 

This is part four…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Batavia: Part Three - The Longboat

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to the wreck of the Batavia. In part two we follow the adventures of the 48 in the longboat as they make their way along Australia’s Western co…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

The Batavia: Part Two - The Heretic

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to the wreck of the Batavia. In part two we discuss heresy, and the harrowing life of under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz. 

This is part two of …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Batavia: Part One - The Shipwreck

Season 5

This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to Australia for a real life soap opera that was considerably more bloody than Neighbours or Home and Away. First we need to take a cruise on a…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago