The Real Origins of Witches
Have you ever wondered what the ancient origins of witchcraft is? How did the black-hat-broomstick stereotype emerge? And what causes the waves of witch trials throughout history, right up to the pres...
27 Marras 202334min
Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers
The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in family portraits as if they were alive. How did they manage to make corpses strike poses? Why did th...
23 Marras 202327min
Mother Shipton: Tudor Prophetess of England's Doom
Did a Tudor prophetess correctly predict the English Civil War, the Crimean War, the sinking of the Titanic, World War One and the end of days? And what does she have to do with turning teddy bears in...
20 Marras 202335min
The Real Witch Hunts: Persecution & Panic
Witch hunts blazed across Europe from the 1400s right into the 1700s. Their terror has been burned into the collective memory. But how accurate are the pictures we have in our heads?For this episode, ...
16 Marras 202341min
The Man Who Hanged Nazis: Albert Pierrepoint
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 o...
12 Marras 202337min
Ghost Fetishes: From Ancient World to Victorians
What is spectrophilia? Well, it's a fetish for ghosts (as well as mirrors), so being turned on by anything lurking in the non-physical realm. What are the historic origins of this fetish and phenomeno...
9 Marras 202325min
Origins of the Loch Ness Monster
What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore? A warning of the Nazis' rise to power? A fraudster?Today Anthony and Maddy are examining grainy phot...
6 Marras 202341min
Guy Fawkes & the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
Other countries celebrate their victories and independence. But in Britain, we celebrate a bungling terrorist from the 17th century. Why? Who was Guy Fawkes? What was the Gunpowder Plot? And why must ...
1 Marras 202349min
