Execution of Lady Jane Grey
This Tudor's story is intense and tragic. She's known as Lady Jane Grey but we ought to change that to 'Queen Jane'. That's who she was, even though she didn't want it, and it cost her her life in the...
21 Okt 202440min
Final Days of Anne Boleyn
Today we’re exploring the grim and heroic final days of the Anne Boleyn, the thousand day queen.We are joined by the one-and-only Dr Tracy Borman who bestselling book on this topic is Anne Boleyn & El...
17 Okt 202436min
Ménage à Murder: 1920s Love Triangle Killers
Edith Thompson was the model 1920's flapper girl. Her husband Percy was more suburban. When young Freddy Bywater entered the marriage home, things became deadly.This week Maddy Pelling tells Anthony D...
14 Okt 202449min
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Doctor (Suspect 4)
Part 4/4. By looking at the men accused of being Jack the Ripper, we uncover dark truths about Victorian society - and our own. Why were these men, most of them almost certainly innocent, singled out ...
7 Okt 202439min
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Discover the true story of Burke and Hare’s murderous rampage through the streets of Edinburgh, all to serve the needs of the city’s scientific minds. We're rerunning this early episode to mark the re...
3 Okt 202444min
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Artist (Suspect 3)
Part 3/4. By looking at the men accused of being Jack the Ripper, we uncover dark truths about Victorian society - and our own. Why were these men, most of them almost certainly innocent, singled out ...
30 Sep 202450min
Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata
The wounds that Christ received on the cross - the stigmata - have had a strange afterlife, reappearing on the flesh of followers from St Francis of Assisi right through to the present. The stigmata a...
26 Sep 202435min
