IN WHICH we learn some of the back story of the unlikely "hero" of Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road, courtesy of a 12-page children's chapbook published by Samuel and John Keys of Devonport in or around 1840 ... almost exactly 100 years after the real Dick Turpin was hanged for his depredations!Be sure to join us this Saturday night for the next full episode of the Penny Dreadful Story Hour!

IN WHICH we learn some of the back story of the unlikely "hero" of Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road, courtesy of a 12-page children's chapbook published by Samuel and John Keys of Devonport in or around 1840 ... almost exactly 100 years after the real Dick Turpin was hanged for his depredations! Be sure to join us this Saturday night for the next full episode of the Penny Dreadful Story Hour!

021. Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: A brief biography of Highwayman Dick Turpin, from an 1840 chapbook !

This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out!

It's like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ...

— Sweeney Todd ...
— Varney, the Vampyre ... 
— Highwayman Dick Turpin ... 
— mustache-twirling villains ...
— virtuous ballet-girls ...
—wicked gamblers ...
... and more! 

Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of old Regency "dad jokes."

Join us!

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This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out! It's like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ... — Sweeney Todd ... — Varney, the Vampyre ... — Highwayman Dick Turpin ... — mustache-twirling villains ... — virtuous ballet-girls ... —wicked gamblers ... ... and more! Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of old Regency "dad jokes." Join us!

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021. Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: A brief biography of Highwayman Dick Turpin, from an 1840 chapbook !

021. Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: A brief biography of Highwayman Dick Turpin, from an 1840 chapbook !

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