[11x1] Season XI launches with Timur Bekmambetov's 2012 horror action film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, starring Benjamin Walker as the 16th President of the USA, who in this fictionalised telling of his life story was secretly trained to kill vampires...

And making a welcome return in the podcasket is Labours of Hercule podcaster Frankie Pellatt...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Frankie Pellatt

Editor: Dan Owen

"History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood." --- Abraham Lincoln

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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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