After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

This episode contains descriptions of execution and torture. To be Hanged, Drawn & Quartered. Put on the Rack. Impaled on a spike. This list paints a very dark picture. What was the reality of executi...

Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was groundbreaking.  Hear how he uncovered a sex scandal which shocked the nation, dabbl...

This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr Cat Byers (@heymorguegirl) joins Maddy and Anthony to te...

Through the industrial fog of Victorian London, in one of the city's most notorious slums, a murder took place that shocked a nation. The Bermondsey Horror, as it was called at the time, centred aroun...

It was a murder mystery that gripped 19th century France and changed crime investigation forever. Who was the body in the trunk? What were the groundbreaking techniques used in the forensics investiga...

What happens when you're left on a desert island with a psychopath? This is a story so horrendous it would be hard to believe were it not for the skeletons left behind. Maddy Pelling takes Anthony Del...

For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the late 1950s Albert was Britain's "Number One" executioner. Which meant he was the o...

Today we’re going behind the foreboding doors of the Victorian workhouse to ask - ‘Could we survive it?’. From Oliver Twist's gruel to songs about flogging, from lice-ridden clothing to soul destroyin...

If you think your job is bad, have you tried being a plague doctor in 17th century Venice? Join Anthony and Maddy as they wake up on a quarantine island and take you through a day in the life of a pla...

Conspiracy theories swirl about the final days of Napoleon. Was he poisoned by a friend? By the British? By his wallpaper? Did he cologne himself to death? Was his penis taken away by a vengeful pries...