• Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands
    Feb 13 2025

    On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands. They fell upon them without warning, killing indiscriminately. Who were the MacDonalds? Why did this atrocity happen?


    Maddy and Anthony's guests today are Dr Allan Kennedy whose new book 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland' is out now and Lucy Doogan from the Nation Trust for Scotland's Visitor Centre in Glencoe.


    Edited and produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    35 mins
  • Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion (Part 1)
    Feb 10 2025

    1381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry about taxes, serfdom, about being forcibly kept in their place by corrupt lords...about a lot of stuff. But will they prevail? Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney about how the uprising began.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy, produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    35 mins
  • Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 2)
    Feb 6 2025

    (2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg, where their dreadful murder awaits them. It's a story that still has the power to shock us. Guiding us through is returning guest Helen Rappaport, author of "Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs".


    Edited by Freddy Chick. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    35 mins
  • Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague
    Feb 3 2025

    It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly disease? What happened when Anne Boleyn got it? And why were sufferers sewn into their bedsheets?


    Edited by Nick Thomson. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    41 mins
  • Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)
    Jan 30 2025

    (1/2) As the Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen Rappaport joins Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney for part 1 of the Final Days of the Romanovs.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    43 mins
  • Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?
    Jan 27 2025

    Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a lot more depth and humanity to Mary's history than this. She's someone who is hard to resist when you get to know her (despite all the Typhoid...). Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    44 mins
  • Is the Devil Dead? (Part 2)
    Jan 23 2025

    (2/2) What does the resurrection of a hanged woman have to do with the Devil? Did the Enlightenment kill Old Nick or is he still a part of our world today? Maddy and Anthony continue their exploration of the rise and fall of Lucifer with Dr Mikki Brock, author of Satan and the Scots, c.1560-1700: The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland.


    Edited and produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    37 mins
  • Final Days of Henry VIII
    Jan 20 2025

    You could smell Henry VIII's rotting legs from three rooms by the end. He was in constant pain, barely able to move. Yet he never loosed his grip on the lives of everyone around him. Could he squeeze in one last wife? One final execution? How did the bloodiest monarch in English history bow out? Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story this week.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy, produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    40 mins