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The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were working and residing in them. Their history should not...

In 1920s Los Angelos Mother May Otis Blackburn and her daughter Ruth Wiland Rizzio headed a cult that promised understandid, salvaion and so much hidden treasure, but the devout wouldn't be showered w...

Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to part one, where we learn all about how Josephine we...

Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public Morality Committee, she had a scandalous life on an...

Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Steven Spielberg had to tone down his cruelty in Schindle...

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to avoid too many questions. A place of brutality, whe...

Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the one who was inflicting it. Hosted by Katie Charlwood...

Kate Warne, a woman in history we should know more about. The first "lady" detective in the USA, she solved crimes, performed subtrefuge and even thwarted an assassination attempt on President-elect, ...

This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, b...

1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than an hour later, over a third of these people would ...

Harmen van den Bogaert was one of the earliest colonisers settlers in 17th Century North America, an ambassador to the Mohawks, he has a bright future which leads to what the Dutch Republic would call...

What happens when a pope trades prayers for power? When you dig into the wild story of Pope Innocent VIII - a man whose reign was packed with shady deals, family favours, and political chaos, it's lik...

On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace...Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom of the...

From the Vault - With the news cycle circling a tenuous link to a Jewish immigrant in London, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, let's focus on what we do know of about the Whitechapel murderers, th...

Elisa Lam was a 21 year old Canadian woman whose mysterious death in the infamous Cecil Hotel caused a stir for internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists alike, but what did happen to Elisa Lam and wh...

Some wars are fought over lands or animals, or the rights to hunt animals, but on this occasion the war was with animals. After World War I Australia faced a new and rather unexpected foe, the mighty ...

The Chevaliere d'Eon was a French diplomat, soldier and spy who survived two French kings, the 7 Years War, and the French Revolution, who just so happened to be the first known transgender person in ...

Anne Bonny and Mary Read were a deadly pirate duo who plundered, pilfered and pillaged their way to infamy to become legends from the golden age of privacy.Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of the Airwav...

Marguerite of Valois, Queen of Navarre (or Queen Margot to her friends) lived through a time of political upheaval in France, with a lifetime tainted by rumours, myths and propaganda. Labelled as a ny...

The name Lavinia Fisher is one that has haunts the true crime annals for centuries. She was accused of poisoning and murdering many guests who had the misfortune to choose the Six Mile Wayfarer's Hous...

At 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...

Mary 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...

Roald 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 ...

Coco Chanel, the creator of the couture French fashion house was a style icon, an astute business women and also a Nazi collaborator... From the poorhouse to the cream of Parisian high society, Gabrie...

It's all fun and games until a famed dancer gets accused of being a lesbian spy sent by Germany in order to tear down the British war effort from the inside, by seducing the wives of the elite! Find o...

Winston Churchill was a man always at war, with other nations, the opposition, his own political party, himself... In the 50th episode we cover the very, very long and somewhat often glossed over care...

The origins of modern medicine were murky at best and maleficent at worst. Doctors needed to study the human body in order to understand the human body, unfortunately the one thing they required was t...

Eleanor of Aquitaine led one hell of a remarkable life, a teenage heiress, queen of two countries, went on Crusades, supported a rebellion against her husband and got imprisoned for it... and that's n...

The tragedy of Clipperton Island is a tale that is often forgotten, a dark and twisted tale of an abandoned colony and the tyrant that claimed them...Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Wishlisthttps://www.ama...

Why do we carve pumpkins and light them up at Halloween? Did you know that like many Halloween traditions the Jack O'Lantern originated in Ireland? Join me as we delve into the legend of Stingy Jack, ...

It's a time honoured tradition, get dressed up in a costume, go door to door and say "Trick or Treat" in exchange for candy and sweets! But where did this very peculiar tradition originate and why...?...

Delve into another dark tale from history, hear all about Tarrare, the 18th Century showman who could (and would) eat anything! Eating live animals on stage (before it was cool- looking at you Ozzy) a...

Amelia Earhart was a famed aviator and world-record breaker, but is her disappearance really the mystery we're led to believe? This week learn about the life (and death) of Amelia Earhart, aviation pi...

Heroine or heretic? Born bang smack in the middle of the hundred years war, Joan of Arc went from being a famer's daughter to the saviour of France and perhaps a prophet all before the age of 20. Join...

Was Anne of Cleves really as horrifying as they say, or was their another reason why Henry VIII was determined to annul this marriage? Listen now to find out!Hosted by Katie Charlwood  Wishlisthttps:/...

Who was Anne Boleyn, harlot or hedonist?This week join Katie as she delves into the life (and death) of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Was Anne a devious, power-hungry wench, out to deceive th...

This week join Katie as she discusses the event that *cough* inspired *cough* the myth that is Stockholm Syndrome! How can it be that something so engrained in the societal consensus be false? Well li...

Yo ho me hearties! Get ready for a boss to get your birate hearts racing, the one, the only Grainne O'Malley, the Pirate Queen of Ireland!! Grab a bottle of rum (or poteen) and settle down to hear the...