163. The Pendle Witches
It is the season of the witch and so get ready for England's darkest hour, the trial of the Pendle Witches, in which families are condemned by the testimony of a young child. The first of many tales t...
7 Okt 202559min
162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!Welcome to the final installment in the Josephine Baker Saga: Death of a Showgirl. She lived a full life, fro rags to riches, resistance to Rainbow tribe, she w...
2 Okt 20251h 17min
161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Josephine deals with duals, death, international tours, anoth...
26 Sep 20251h 2min
160. Josephine Baker - Part I
Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to part one, where we learn all about how Josephine we...
15 Sep 20251h
159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon
Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public Morality Committee, she had a scandalous life on an...
9 Sep 20251h
158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun
Burlesque's beginnings blossomed out of La Belle Époque, the interwar period between the Franco-Prussian war and WW1. An era where creativity and the arts boomed and the Burlesque show was born and it...
1 Sep 20251h 12min
157. The Battle of Castle Itter
The Battle of Castle Itter has to be one of the weirdest battle of the Second World War, it's the SS against Wermacht, the Austrian Resistance, US troops, an SS officer, some politicians, a famous ten...
25 Aug 202550min
156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów
Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Steven Spielberg had to tone down his cruelty in Schindle...
19 Aug 202546min
