Wales' Darkest Folklore
Wales is set apart from a lot of countries, with one of its folk tales - the Red Dragon - featuring in its flag. What are the mythical origins of Wales, and other dark folk tales and traditions, such ...
17 Apr 202537min
Ireland's Darkest Folklore
*TW: This episode contains discussions and themes of infertility.*Fairies have long been part of Irish folkloric history, with its landscape dotted with thousands of 'fairy forts'. But there's a dark ...
14 Apr 202534min
Tudor England's Dumbest Murder
Alice Arden wanted her husband Thomas dead. So did the rest of the village of Faversham. What followed was a twisted dance of passion, poison, insane plots and dastardly assassins. A tale so macabre t...
10 Apr 202539min
Scotland's Darkest Folklore
From misty mountains to deep-sea caves, we explore the dark side of Scottish folklore. Tales of Selkies - seal folk caught between sea and shore - Kelpies - murderous water-horses -and the ancient fig...
7 Apr 202532min
Easter Rising: First World War In Dublin
(Part 2/2) On Easter Monday in 1916, Irish rebels read a proclamation of independence that sparked a week-long battle with the British army.Over the next six days, this new bloody frontier of the Firs...
3 Apr 20251h 3min
Black Death: Scapegoats & Persecution
***This episode contains a description of mass murder***As the Black Death moved across Europe, something darker and more insidious spread ahead of it. An antisemitic conspiracy theory that blamed Eur...
30 Mar 202539min
Easter Rising: Build-Up To Irish Rebellion
(Part 1/2) With Britain engaged in the First World War in Europe, Irish rebels sensed an opportunity.Irish revolutions had fought for independence from Britain in the past, would the Easter Rising be ...
27 Mar 202552min
Black Death: 5 Strangest Cures
It was a plague like no other. It provoked strange cures like no other. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling in search of the oddest cures concocted in the face of the Black Death, busting a few myth a...
24 Mar 202542min
