England's Worst Witch Trial: Pendle Witches
Inside the heavy walls of Lancaster Castle, the darkest & deadliest of English witch trials played out in 1612 - the Pendle Witch Trials. By the end ten people would be executed and many more lives ru...
21 Mar 202446min
St Patrick: Pirates, Snakes and Goatees
He wasn't Irish. He didn't wear green. There were no snakes. So who was the real St Patrick? How did his myth grow? And how did he invent the goatee?Podcaster and comedian Alison Spittle joins Maddy a...
17 Mar 202446min
Medieval Torture: The Dark History
This episode contains descriptions of execution and torture.To be Hanged, Drawn & Quartered. Put on the Rack. Impaled on a spike. This list paints a very dark picture. What was the reality of executio...
14 Mar 202442min
'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England
Mary Ann Cotton is known as the first British female serial killer. A trail of bodies, many her own children, followed her through life. Bodies she happened to have insurance policies out on. Arsenic ...
11 Mar 202454min
Pirate Queens: Mary Read & Anne Bonny
Mary Read and Anne Bonny are legendary female pirates from the golden age of piracy. Raised as boys, they sailed with captain Calico Jack and fought their enemies bare-breasted, if legends are to be b...
6 Mar 202442min
The First Alien Abduction
In 1961 Betty and Barney Hill became the first people ever to be abducted by aliens. Their story of being taken and examined by extraterrestrials on board a spaceship became the blueprint that others ...
3 Mar 202445min
The Paris Morgue's Dark Story
Citizens of Paris in the 19th century could stroll down to the Morgue to try to identify the unknown dead or to gawp at celebrity murder victims. Though its most famous resident of all was perhaps not...
29 Feb 202440min
Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths
Did you know Benjamin Franklin began his career reporting mermaid sightings? Or that there's a mermaid on every cup of Starbucks coffee?Join us as we search the oceans for history's greatest mermaid s...
25 Feb 202441min
