Who Did What Now

Charles Dickens is one of the most popular writers ever to exist, he championed for the poor, he highlighted inequality and child labour laws, and he's even partly responsible for the wholesome concep...

6 Des 20231h 8min

At the turn of the 20th Century, four days before the King and Queen are due to visit Ireland for the Great Expedition, the country is rocked by Ireland's most scandalous heist in one of its most fort...

30 Nov 202357min

Eamon De Valera, the long fellow, was to become the President and first Taoiseach of the Irish Republic, but before that he was locked up in an English prison while his fellow rebels fought for Irish ...

28 Nov 202342min

Mary Shelley was a force to be reckoned with, an intellectual mastermind, fuelled by passion and who lived a life rife with death and creativity. As a teenager Mary invented an entire genre, and as an...

14 Nov 20231h 3min

Edgar Allan Poe was the original goth boy, emo well before that G note made everyine with 45degree fringes and spray on trousers stop in their tracks. Poe was he master of the macabre, from his tragic...

18 Okt 20231h 16min

Erzébet Báthori, history's most prolific female serial-killer, who exsanguinated her victims and the bathed in the blood of virgins, out of villainy? Sadism? Or a desperate attempt to regain her youth...

10 Okt 20231h 8min

In the 16th Century Sawney Bean and his bloodthirsty brood ambushed, killed and consumed weary travellers as they traversed the log, narrow roads of the Ayrshire coast for 25 years. Did this cave-dwel...

3 Okt 202346min

Roald Dahl has created worlds within pages that live in the minds and hearts of children (and some grown-ups) worlds that are chaotic, complicated, dark, jaunty and oft macabre, not so different from ...

26 Sep 20231h 3min