Podcast Episodes

Here Be Witches: The Salem Witch Trials

Season 1 Episode 6

It’s the 19th of July 1692 and thirty-nine year old Sarah Good, is the youngest of five women being trundled through Salem Village to a hill on the o…

10 hours ago

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Lizzie Borden Took An Axe…

Season 1 Episode 5

As the legend of Lizzie Borden comes to Netflix, we visit one of the most notorious murder mysteries in American history. A brutal double murder that…

1 week ago

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Ötzi: Murder on the Mountain

Season 1 Episode 4

It's September 1991, two hikers in the Alps believe they’ve stumbled across the body of a climber who’d lost his way. He lies face-down in the ice. H…

2 weeks ago

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The Tragedy of the Titanic

Season 1 Episode 3

11.39pm, 14 April 1912: A grand new Ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, cruises across the North Atlantic. It’s 4 days into a weeklong voyage from Southamp…

3 weeks ago

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St. Brice's Day Massacre

Season 1 Episode 1

This story begins not on a battlefield, but beneath one of the most prestigious colleges in the world. In 2008, excavations at St John’s College, Oxf…

4 weeks ago

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The Original Serial Killer

Season 1 Episode 2

We tend to think about serial killers as being a modern phenomenon, but in France during the Hundred Years War, we find the story of a monster straig…

4 weeks ago

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Coming soon... Buried Evidence

Season 1

The Crime Desk presents Buried Evidence, a new weekly podcast where history meets true crime, unearthing the murders, mysteries and scandals of the p…

1 month ago

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