Origins of the Devil
(1/2) How has the devil been depicted through history? What are his origins? And why should he be portrayed as beautiful?In the first part of a two part mini-series on Lucifer himself, Anthony and Mad...
16 Tammi 202549min
Great Fire of London: Mobs, Firestorms, and Revenge
(2/2) As the Great Fire of London worsens mob rule begins to appear and a hunt for a scapegoat takes over. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story, including a special contribution from Pete Zym...
13 Tammi 202546min
Final Days of Mary Queen of Scots
The moment Mary Queen of Scots set foot in England, she became Elizabeth I's prisoner. Mary was fleeing from war and misogyny, hoping for help from her fellow queen. What lay ahead was twenty years of...
9 Tammi 202547min
Great Fire of London: Who started it?
(1/2) London's Burning! London's Burning! Disaster strikes in 1666 as the dense, mostly wooden, city of London begins to burn. Who started the fire? Why did it spread like none before or since?Maddy P...
6 Tammi 202540min
Final Days of Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, survived multiple assassination attempts on the same night. He was poisoned, he was shot, he was drowned in a freezing St Petersburg river. His corpse was emasculated...
2 Tammi 202541min
Is the Loch Ness Monster real?
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...
30 Joulu 202443min
Mystery of the Ghost Ship: Mary Celeste
In 1872 the ghost ship Mary Celeste is found sailing across the Atlantic without a single crew member left on board. Theories over what happened on the Mary Celeste range from insurance fraud to a vio...
26 Joulu 202437min
Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story
The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit preferabl...
23 Joulu 202447min
