Why Do People Kill at Christmas?
Why do people kill in the season of goodwill? Why are we fascinated when they do? And what does it say about us?Professor David Wilson, leading criminologist and bestselling author, joins Maddy and An...
13 Dec 202339min
Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder: Red Barn Murder
The Red Barn Murder in 1827 was ground zero for true crime podcasts. It become one of the first cases to explode in the media and caused a national sensation. It had everything - sex, murder and a gho...
10 Dec 202351min
The Ghost of Anne Boleyn
We talk the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England before Henry VIII chopped off her head, with the marvellous Tracy Borman.Where can Anne Boleyn's ghost be seen? What form does it take? And why does ...
7 Dec 202332min
Hellfire Club: Sex, Scandal & Satanism in Georgian England
Sex, Satanism and Scandal surrounded the Hellfire Club that operated out of a network of caves in the country estate of 18th century aristocrat Francis Dashwood. The most powerful men in the country c...
4 Dec 202346min
Amelia Dyer: Victorian Baby Farm Killer
Some estimates have it that Amelia Dyer killed more than 400 babies. It's hard to say for sure because so few victims were recovered. She was a phantom that grew up in a very dark corner of Victorian ...
29 Nov 202340min
The Real Origins of Witches
Have you ever wondered what the ancient origins of witchcraft is? How did the black-hat-broomstick stereotype emerge? And what causes the waves of witch trials throughout history, right up to the pres...
27 Nov 202334min
Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers
The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in family portraits as if they were alive. How did they manage to make corpses strike poses? Why did th...
23 Nov 202327min
Mother Shipton: Tudor Prophetess of England's Doom
Did a Tudor prophetess correctly predict the English Civil War, the Crimean War, the sinking of the Titanic, World War One and the end of days? And what does she have to do with turning teddy bears in...
20 Nov 202335min
