The Arab and The Manc Podcast -Episode 6

A wild true story of ambition, deception, and literary crime! How one man nearly got away with stealing Shakespeare’s priceless First Folio from Durham University — until it all went wrong… 

We dive into the wild Nutty Putty cave story 😱 —how he got stuck & didn’t make it. Then we chat about what we’d want our fam to do if we were trapped. Would you pull the plug or not? 😬 

It has been a while. A lot of things have happened in the past few months. The Manc has finished his studies and hopefully is becoming a man in finance, 6 foot 5, blue eyes so the Arab can finally chill at home and become a lady of leisure. Tune in for a "personal" episode, that ... Show More

When we think of the witch trials, we often think of women being charged. Whilst misogyny was at the heart of many of the witch trials, this isn't the full story. In this second episode of a limited series, Inside the Witch Trials, we go back to the the Westfjords of Iceland, to ... Show More

First of two episodes on the Salem Witch Trials. We begin the story as accusations are made throughout the town of Salem and a climate of fear is palpable. Maddy Pelling takes Anthony Delaney into the most famous witch trials of all time. Written by Maddy Pelling. Edited by Tomo ... Show More

In 1692, the village of Salem in Massachusetts was the location of the infamous Salem witch trials. Hundreds of innocent people were accused of witchcraft and being witches. People were executed, tortured, and imprisoned. In this Halloween special episode of Thinking in English, ... Show More

We often think of the witch trials as something in the deep and distant past. But, as we'll hear in today's episode, the attitudes and behaviour that led to witch trials is as present today as it was then. In this third and final episode of our limited series, Inside the Witch Tr ... Show More

For more than two centuries, between the late 1400s and early 1700s, a terror of witches gripped Europe. From Scotland to Spain, thousands of people were accused, tortured and executed. But as the hysteria faded in Europe, it crossed the Atlantic. In 1692, in New England, it took ... Show More

This 2016 episode cover the disproportionate number of executions for sorcery that happened in Vardø during Europe's witch trials, This small fishing community staged 140 trials, and sentenced 91 of the accused witches to death.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

For Hallowe’en Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of witches in history. We learn how the Witchfinder General in England used to find so called witches and about the Salem Witch trials in America.----more---- People in Europe are very worried about witches 500 years ... Show More

People in the 17th century were at spiritual war with the devil.  It was a time of huge upheaval. What became known as the witch trials soon followed. In this first episode of a limited series, Inside the Witch Trials, we go back to the English village of Pendle in 1612, to find ... Show More

Quand Fred West rencontre la jeune Rosemary Letts à la fin des années soixante, ils ont pour rêve commun de se marier et fonder une famille. Pourtant, derrière des dehors de gens parfaitement ordinaires et bien intégrés en société, le couple va mener une double vie sordide, dépou ... Show More

Blair and Carley are back, they hate the Titanic now, they're only about witches. Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians Welcome to the Salem Witch Files! Carley and Blair start the new season (after some movie talk) wit ... Show More