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ShortHand: Wallis Simpson – The Nearly-Nazi-Queen of England
Episode 192
They said she'd mastered a Chinese sex technique that could "make a matchstick feel like a Havana cigar". Top Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop allegedly …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
ShortHand: Kinky Sex in '50s America - The Kinsey Scale
Episode 191
“The Kinsey Reports” – Alfred Kinsey’s 1950s studies into how people like to have sex, and with who – did a lot more than ruffle a few feathers. Eve…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Kidnapping of Chloe Ayling: Sex Slave or Scammer? | #441
Episode 441
In 2017, British glamour model Chloe Ayling went through a terrifying ordeal: abducted from a fake modelling shoot in Italy, held hostage for days b…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
ShortHand: King Ferdinand VII – History’s Biggest D**k
Episode 190
As long as a walking stick. A billiards cue. Thin as a nub of wax at the base, thick as a man’s fist at the tip.
These are just some of the eye-water…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
ShortHand: Aleister Crowley - The Beast 666
Episode 189
With great esoteric power, comes great esoteric responsibility.
Aleister Crowley was considered many things, a poet, an artist, a master of the dark …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The McStay Family Murders - Part Two | #440
Episode 440
Bodies unearthed in the desert seemed like the final piece in the puzzle for McStay Family Murders. However, the four years that had passed left mor…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
ShortHand: The Viper Room & The Death of River Phoenix
Episode 188
In October 1993, River Phoenix crashed out of Johnny Depp’s exclusive club, fell onto the pavement, and died. An hour earlier, the 23-year-old risin…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
ShortHand: Princess Anastasia - The Russian Royal Imposter
Episode 187
The year was 1917, and revolution was in the air in Russia. After sustaining heavy losses in WW1, the fall of the House of Romanov seemed inevitable…
5 months ago
The McStay Family Murders - Part One | #439
Episode 439
How does a family completely vanish? That was the question that plagued investigators after Michael McStay reported his brother Joe McStay missing o…
5 months ago
ShortHand: Alchemy
Episode 186
Turning lead into gold and living forever: that’s about the summation of our modern understanding of Alchemy. Informed by high-fantasy films and pop…
5 months ago