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Roxelana
Season 3
This week, we travel to the court of the tenth Ottoman Emperor - though this tale is only tangentially about Suleiman the Magnificent. It’s a bit of …
3 years, 1 month ago
The Island
Season 3
First discovered on New Year’s Day 1739, and situated 1,600 Kilometres from the nearest trade route, Bouvet Island is the most remote island on Earth…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Dog Days’ King
Season 3
Jorgen Jorgensen, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a watchmaker, lived the kind of life most seen in picaresque novels like Voltaire’s Candide or Thack…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Frost Fair
Season 2
Happy Holidays all! This week we travel back to the Thames river, scene of The Revenge of the Tallysticks, to discuss the Great Frost Fair of 1683-4.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Madame Fiocca - Part Two
Season 2
In Madame Fiocca part two we discuss Nancy Wake’s return to France, and time with the Maquis - bands of French resistance agents camping out in the f…
3 years, 3 months ago
Madame Fiocca - Part One
Season 2
Nancy Wake was known by many names. The Nazis called her the White Mouse, a resourceful agent of the resistance, who evaded their clutches. Britain’s…
3 years, 3 months ago
A Few Short Tales on Trans Awareness Week 2022
Season 2
This week’s Tale is, moving forwards, an annual topic I’d like to return to each November - as I do spooky things on Halloween and Christmassy things…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Revenge of The Tally Sticks
Season 2
Warning: The following is a long, shaggy dog tale about money, Anglo-Saxon England, things manufactured and things callously discarded. Mostly it’s a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Season 2
On Sunday April 18th 1943 four boys head off on a boys-own adventure into Hagley Woods. A day of poaching birds eggs soon turned macabre, however - w…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Wall Street Coup Part Two
Season 2
This week’s tale is part two of a two parter. Part one can be found here
Smedley Butler was, in his own time, the most decorated soldier in American …
3 years, 5 months ago