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87. The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels
Nov 30, 2023At 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...
86. De Valera's Prison Break
Nov 28, 2023Eamon 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 ...
85. Mary Shelley - The Original Goth Girl
Nov 14, 2023Mary 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...
84. Edgar Allan Poe
Oct 18, 2023Edgar 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...
83. Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess REDUX
Oct 10, 2023Erzébet 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...
82. Sawney Bean And His Cannibal Clan
Oct 03, 2023In 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...
81. Roald Dahl - Soldier, Writer, Cheater, Spy
Sep 26, 2023Roald 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 ...
80. The Great Fire of London
Sep 22, 2023Over 350 years ago, the City of London was razed when a tiny spark on Pudding Lane ignited a fire hotter than lava, that would ravage the city for four days. This week join Katie, history harlot and r...
79. Princess Alice of Battenberg
Sep 12, 2023Princess Alice of Battenberg had a far more interesting life than most royals in recent history, she was a princess, a wife, a mother, a nurse, a refugee, a nun, a prolific chain-smoker and of course,...
78. J. M. Barrie - The Man Behind Peter Pan
Sep 05, 2023James Matthew Barrie, a Scottish novelist and playwright, best known for being the creator of Peter Pan, brought joy, childhood fantasies and the name Wendy to the world. However, it's not all St Bern...