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  1. Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace

    <p>We’re re-running this episode because it’s one of our favourites — and it’s worth another listen!</p><br><p>The ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, screaming down a corridor. A nursemaid's spinning wheel clicking in the

  2. Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd

    <p>Sweeney Todd - the demon barber of Fleet Street who beheads people and then sends their bodies through a trapdoor to be made into pies. It's just a story right? Right? There's not any real history to it....or is there? Like two food insp

  3. The Most Notorious Viking Raid

    <p>The Viking attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a remote tidal island in North East England, sent psychological and cultural shockwaves through the history. It's a story of blood and terror, but there's more subtlety to it as well, as

  4. Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal

    <p>In 1895, the world witnessed its first true celebrity trial when Oscar Wilde was charged with “Gross Indecency". To tell the powerful story of Wilde's life in its fullness, Anthony and Maddy are joined by Merlin Holland, grandson of Osca

  5. Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?

    <p>Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their own family trees. Huge thanks to Ancestry's genealogists and family historians Jenn Utley, Jo

  6. What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?

    <p>We all know the story of Pompeii: the Roman town reduced to ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Roughly two-thousand years later, archaeologists have been able to uncover the stories of its victims. What do we know of the lives of this city

  7. The Dark Side of the Vikings

    <p>How dark really were the Vikings? How much of a part did human sacrifice play in their world? And what was their relationship with magic?</p><br><p>Joining Anthony and Maddy in today's episode is historian, author and all-round Viking ex

  8. The Only Prime Minister Ever Assassinated

    <p>Was this moment the closest Britain came to revolution? When Prime Minister Spencer Perceval lay dying on the floor of the Parliament, many feared it was the start of bloody revolt. We discover the assassin, John Bellingham, and what dro

  9. Who Was Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch?

    <p>Who was the very worst of all the Medieval monarchs? No spoilers but we've got monarchs driven psychopathic by love, terrible sadists, and egos that straddled a continent. They were the worst of the worst, but who was the worst of all?</

  10. Who was the Last Witch of Scotland?

    <p>With the nights closing in, what better time to re-visit a favourite episode of ours.</p><br><p>In 1727, Janet Horne of the Highland community of Dornoch became the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for witchcraft.</p><br><

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