"The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story

"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 preferably to the life available to him elsewhere. Yet alongside darkness there is light and love in his story, and a sense of his own indomitable spirit throughout it all.


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The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters

The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters

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Banshees: Herald of Death

Banshees: Herald of Death

Today we're delving back into the After Dark vaults to revisit our episode on Banshees...Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) joins Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling for the story of the Banshee.The Banshe...

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Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace

Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace

We’re re-running this episode because it’s one of our favourites — and it’s worth another listen!The ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, screaming down a corridor. A nursemaid's spinn...

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Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd

Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd - the demon barber of Fleet Street who beheads people and then sends their bodies through a trapdoor to be made into pies. It's just a story right? Right? There's not any real history to ...

22 Des 202537min

The Most Notorious Viking Raid

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The Viking attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a remote tidal island in North East England, sent psychological and cultural shockwaves through the history. It's a story of blood and terror, but th...

18 Des 202543min

Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal

Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal

In 1895, the world witnessed its first true celebrity trial when Oscar Wilde was charged with “Gross Indecency". To tell the powerful story of Wilde's life in its fullness, Anthony and Maddy are joine...

15 Des 20251h 6min

Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?

Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?

Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their own family trees. Huge thanks to Ancestry's genealogists...

11 Des 202557min

What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?

What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?

We all know the story of Pompeii: the Roman town reduced to ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Roughly two-thousand years later, archaeologists have been able to uncover the stories of its victims. What...

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