Marchamont Nedham - A man who was never write about the Civil War
This week (slightly delayed due to illness) we are discussing a man who found a way to profit from the upheaval of the English Civil War via the most partisan of journalism. Marchamont Nedham was a gi...
23 Jun 1h 29min
The Assassination of Thomas Thynne - Marriage negotiations can be murder
This week we are talking about how an imagined love triangle (which contained absolutely no love) resulted in the death of a sitting MP and nearly sparked both an international incident and mob-rule o...
31 Mai 1h 21min
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 Mai 1h 12min
James Barry - It 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mar 1h 24min
