MYW: The Legend of the Hartlepool Monkey
Listener Sarah sends Laura to Hartlepool, where a shipwreck, a monkey in uniform and a case of mistaken identity lead to one of the UK’s strangest legends – and its weirdest “trial”.Meanwhile, Iain di...
10 Apr 202525min
67. The Case of Oscar Slater
Iain takes us to 1908 Glasgow, where 83-year-old Marion Gilchrist is found murdered in her Glasgow flat. A missing brooch and a fleeing spark a transatlantic manhunt, and decades of fighting for justi...
7 Apr 202541min
MYW: Aberdeen’s Audacious £23m Affair
Listener Chris sends Iain to 1980s Aberdeen, where a simple game of bridge between two secret lovers sparks one of the boldest fraud plots in Scottish history. What follows is a wild £23 million schem...
3 Apr 202521min
66. The Ned Kelly Gang
Laura takes us back to Australia in the 1800s, where a group of outlaws known as the Kelly Gang are becoming folk heroes. But as their legend grows, tensions rise and a betrayal from within sets the w...
31 Mar 202543min
MYW Mailbag: How Do You Pronounce Archipelago Again?
Laura and Iain revisit Hull and Ruth Ellis in emails from Living Legends. In the inbox, they find a hibernating tortoise, a 21-year-old goldfish and a hat-wearing gecko - oh my! Plus, they fight to pr...
27 Mar 202520min
65. The Rolex Killer
Iain takes us to the coast of Devon where two fishermen haul in the body of a well dressed man, with a head injury. At first police assume it’s a simple case of a drowning, until a Rolex reveals somet...
24 Mar 202538min
MYW: Galway’s Fishy Freezer
A Galway fish shop hides a chilling secret – a body in the freezer. Listener Jess sends Laura to Ireland to investigate. Meanwhile, Iain recounts a bizarre egg ambush!Murder They Wrote with Laura Whit...
20 Mar 202525min
64. The Body in the Garage
Laura takes us to 1929, where two men find the decomposing body of a man hidden behind some boxes in a garage in Southampton. The victim, oil agent Vivian Messiter, had been missing for nine weeks. Mu...
17 Mar 202543min
