Maurice Wilson - It is plane to see that climbing Everest is hard
This week we are heading to the Mills of Bradford to meet a Yorkshireman whose unshakable self-belief led to one of the most longwinded self-destructions in history. Having survived the horrors of WWI...
17 Maj 1h 12min
James Barry - If women can't be doctors, then why not stop being a woman?
To celebrate international Midwifery day, Pam is back in the hosting chair to tell us the story of a pioneering Doctor who didn't let their lack of balls stop them from becoming one of the top medics ...
5 Maj 1h 40min
The Hammersmith Ghost - (or) A ghostly Georgian Blunder(buss)
After a series of unfortunate events we are back with a spooky tale from the early 19th Century that resulted in multiple deaths. The Hammersmith Ghost was initially a local oddity, but as the winter ...
3 Maj 1h 6min
Jeanne de Clisson - (or) Middle aged female piracy is the best kind of piracy
This week we are heading across the channel to talk about how one of the many Anglo-French spats during the middle ages resulted in the creation of one of the most effective pirates who has ever saile...
12 Apr 1h 18min
The British Union of Fascists (Oswald Mosley Part 3) - (or) How to get London to hate you
Finally we have reached the end of the cautionary tale of Oswald Mosley, as we talk about his period as Britain's best known Fascist. However unlike in Italy and Germany the population of Britain were...
29 Mars 1h 24min
James Graham and his Celestial Bed - You don't need a degree to be a doctor of love (though you may need to be insane)
This week we are jumping back into the world of quack medicine, following a nearly-doctor called James Graham as he blazed a path through multiple medical fields (none of which he was remotely qualifi...
8 Mars 1h 25min
The Halifax Slasher - (or) should we be concerned about Yorkshire?
This week we are heading back to 1938 to talk about a very odd crimewave that plagued the people of Halifax during the cold, dark days of November. When Mary Sutcliffe reported being attacked by a man...
22 Feb 1h 7min
Charlotte Temple - (or) a cautionary tale for Valentine's day
As we head toward February 14th, Pam is bringing us a tale of Georgian romance. In fact one of the first and most popular tales of romance in early American history.Starting in the UK it is a story of...
8 Feb 1h 8min
