Podcast Episodes

LTP Special: Sir Francis Walsingham

Season 3 Episode 70

In this special episode (a listener-favourite from our BBN days), Josh newly presents his research on Sir Francis Walsingham. Dubbed "Spymaster to the Queen", popular history broadcasts Walsingham as…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

LTP Selects: The Priory School (1904)

Season 3 Episode 77

When Dr Huxtable (no, not that one) makes a desperate appeal to Sherlock for help in locating a missing pupil of his school, the great detective politely declines. When he learns of the £6000 reward,…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

LTP Noir: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Season 3 Episode 69

"I'd hate to take a bite of you... you're a cookie full of arsenic."

Alexander McKendrick's compelling noir is full of lines like this, courtesy of screenwriter Clifford Odets - quite fitting for intr…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Benson Murder Case (1926)

Season 3 Episode 68

According to Ogden Nash, "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pants", and Dashiel Hammett described the character's posturing as being, "like a teenager who had been studying the foreign words and phrase…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

LTP 007: Role of Honour (1984)

Season 3 Episode 67

Another year, another 007 continuation novel for John Gardner! In 1984 it was "Role of Honour", his fourth effort, which pits a rich but disenchanted James Bond up against a SPECTRE in sheep's clothi…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955)

Season 3 Episode 66

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Our first foray into the work of Georges Simenon sees us tackle one of the Belgian writer's most celebrated books. When a barge travelling t…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

LTP Special: The Eiger Sanction (1975)

Season 3 Episode 65

Fresh on the heels of last week's novel review, we're proud to present our conversation about Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Trevanian's "The Eiger Sanction" from 1975. Recorded a few years back…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Eiger Sanction (1972)

Season 3 Episode 64

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1972's "The Eiger Sanction" was affectionately referred to as a light spoof of the spy genre by its author, Trevanian. In some ways that claim i…

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

LTP Noir: This Gun For Hire (1942)

Season 3 Episode 63

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LTP Noir is back and this time it's Paramount's 1942 spy thriller, "This Gun For Hire", that's brought in for questioning! From the struggles of…

Published on 9 months ago

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Season 3 Episode 62

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Made rich through universal themes of duality, friendship and unchecked ambition, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella was a crime thriller…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago