Podcast Episodes

New York's Wildest Murder Case

Episode 198

This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr Cat Byers (@heymorguegirl) joins Maddy and Anthony to t…

Published on 1 month ago

Victorian Love Triangle Murder

Episode 197

Through the industrial fog of Victorian London, in one of the city's most notorious slums, a murder took place that shocked a nation.

The Bermondsey Horror, as it was called at the time, centred aroun…

Published on 1 month ago

The Body In The Trunk: France's Shocking 19th Century Murder Case

Episode 196

It was a murder mystery that gripped 19th century France and changed crime investigation forever.

Who was the body in the trunk? What were the groundbreaking techniques used in the forensics investiga…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Bloodiest Mutiny & Shipwreck in History: Batavia

Episode 195

What happens when you're left on a desert island with a psychopath? This is a story so horrendous it would be hard to believe were it not for the skeletons left behind. Maddy Pelling takes Anthony De…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Britain’s Most Prolific Executioner

Episode 194

For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the late 1950s Albert was Britain's "Number One" executioner. Which meant he was the …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Could You Survive The Victorian Workhouse?

Episode 193

Today we’re going behind the foreboding doors of the Victorian workhouse to ask - ‘Could we survive it?’. From Oliver Twist's gruel to songs about flogging, from lice-ridden clothing to soul destroyi…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Day In The Life Of A Plague Doctor

Episode 192

If you think your job is bad, have you tried being a plague doctor in 17th century Venice?

Join Anthony and Maddy as they wake up on a quarantine island and take you through a day in the life of a pla…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Final Days of Napoleon

Episode 191

Conspiracy theories swirl about the final days of Napoleon. Was he poisoned by a friend? By the British? By his wallpaper? Did he cologne himself to death? Was his penis taken away by a vengeful prie…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Great Plague of London

Episode 190

What was it like living in London, 1665, when the plague first crept in?

Within weeks, the gruesome symptoms were being spotted around London, crosses were marked on the doors of the damned, and King …

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Dark History of the Luddites

Episode 189

Would you have joined the OG Luddites? In 1811 and 1812 across the midlands and north of England which were the Silicon Valley of the day, Luddites smashed machines. They would not stop, not even at …

Published on 2 months ago