The Woman in the Wych Elm
In April 1943, during the dark days of World War II, four teenage boys in Birmingham, England were hunting for birds’ eggs in a remote woodland called, Hagley Wood. The slightest of the boys stopped a...
7 Dec 202237min
The Triumph and Tragedy of Nikola Tesla
It’s 1943, and a tall moustached man is crossing the road to his hotel in New York City, pausing only to feed the birds. He rides the elevator up to the 33rd floor, and heads to his room, 3327. He is ...
30 Nov 202242min
The Madness of King Ludwig II
On the 13th of June 1886, the body of Ludwig II, the so-called Mad King of Bavaria, was found floating in two feet of water on Lake Starnberg, Germany. The official verdict given by the authorities wa...
23 Nov 202239min
The Murder Bureau
It is August 1978; Georgi Markov is in his London flat when the phone rings. He’s greeted by the sound of a cold and distorted voice. “Georgi Markov you’re going to die”. Markov is used to these dea...
16 Nov 202236min
Finding Mary Magdalene
According to all four gospels, Jesus chose one person as the first witness of his resurrection. One person, who was entrusted with spreading this momentous news; a follower whose life is still shroude...
9 Nov 202239min
The Hitler Diaries
It is the early 1980s, and in a house in West Germany a man called Gerd Heidemann is flicking through a book with mounting excitement. Sentences leap from the page: ‘The burning of the books was not...
2 Nov 202240min
The S-Bahn Murderer: A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin
It’s 1940 and there’s a serial killer on the streets of Berlin looking for his next victim. Elfreda Franka is travelling home on the late train after work. Sitting alone in the dark carriage she stare...
26 Okt 202237min
The Strange Life of Peter the Great
It’s the early morning of June the 26th, 1718 and in the basement of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg, Russia, lies a young man. His face is covered in bruises, his back is bleeding, and h...
19 Okt 202242min
