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Marie Antoinette | At The Mercy of The Mob | 3
Episode 63
Fresh from storming the Bastille, the revolutionaries are coming for the royals at Versailles. Marie Antoinette avoids a massacre by clever use of a …
1 year, 6 months ago
Marie Antoinette | Queen of Scandal | 2
Episode 62
Now 18 and Queen of France, Marie's raison d'être is to produce a future King. But after 4 years of marriage, she still hasn’t had sex with her husba…
1 year, 6 months ago
Marie Antoinette | A Princess and a Pawn | 1
Episode 61
Married off at the age of 14 in her mother’s very own Game of Thrones, Austrian-born Marie Antoinette finds herself in a foreign country, shackled to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Charles Dickens | The Final Curtain | 4
Episode 60
At the height of his fame, Dickens falls in love with a young woman (Nelly Ternan) and a city (Paris). He survives a train crash and public disapprov…
1 year, 7 months ago
Legacy and British Scandal Special: The Scandalous Life of Charles Dickens | 5
Peter and Afua go on the British Scandal podcast hosted by Matt Forde and Alice Levine to discuss the life and times of Charles Dickens. Behind the s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Charles Dickens | A Very Dickens Christmas | 3
Episode 59
“A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!” A Christmas Carol is a huge success and Dickens is an international celebrity. There’s lots of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Listen Now: Law & Crime’s The Rise & Fall of Diddy
MORE EXCLUSIVE NEW EPISODES COMING JANUARY 2025. Sean Combs’ trial is currently slated for May 2025 and wherever this story goes, Wondery and Law&Cri…
1 year, 7 months ago
Charles Dickens | Dickensmania | 2
Episode 58
Dickens’ star is on the rise. Sketches by Boz is a success and he publishes The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and more. Plus, he is a hit on both sid…
1 year, 7 months ago
Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1
Episode 57
A young Charles is filled with imagination and ambition, but his childhood
with humiliation and uncertainty. His father is in and out of debtors’ pris…
1 year, 7 months ago
Winston Churchill | Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat | 4
Episode 56
The war is won but the nation seems far from grateful as the election of 1945 sweeps Labour into power. But the Churchill phenomenon doesn’t stop and…
1 year, 8 months ago