Podcast Episodes

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 7 hours 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 weeks, 5 days 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 1 month, 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 2 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 2 months, 4 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 3 months, 1 week ago

Admin: Under the weather …

Season 5

Hey all the next episode is likely to be delayed by a week or so… as you can hear I’m getting over a bit of a nasty cold/ case of flu - and my voice is still pretty ragged.. 

But in the meantime, he…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

The Ballad of Tom Wills

This week we travel to Australia for a game of Marn Grook, to discuss origin stories; perhaps the archetypal troubled sportsman - and horrific massacres.    

Trigger warnings: Murder, suicide, coloni…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

The Cancellation of Ilda Orme

Season 5

The American actress Ilda Orme knew a thing or two about being cancelled, a long, long time before social media put the cancel button in the hands of the public at large. Her cancellers, she suspecte…

Published on 5 months ago

Archias The Exile Hunter

Season 5

On, or around 11th June 323 BC Alexander the Great died in Babylon. While there are mysteries surrounding his passing - did an Indian holy man prophesy his passing a year prior while self immolating …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago