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A Wee Bit Gothic
By Chris and HannahTrue Crime
A Wee Bit Gothic episodes
- One Hell of a Heckle (Irish Potato Famine & Harry Houdini's Unlikely Friendship)
Welcome back, listeners. Glad we're back on track? So are we. We've missed you.
Well this week we discuss where in Scotland we would most like to visit, Chris discusses the AWBG new found Cornwall based fame and Hannah talks Edinburgh trips!
Chris's story this week is about the Irish Potato Famine, his familial link to Ireland and the friendship between the Irish and the Native American Choctaw tribe before Hannah tells us about another surprise friendship between escapologist Harry Houdini and oor pal Arthur Conan Doyle
1 hr 31 min - A Prison For the Whole Fam (Henry Littlejohn and Charles Dicken's Scottish Connection)
WE'RE BACK!
After a wee hiatus to chill a bit over a very hectic Christmas we are back in action!
Hannah covers the man himself; Henry Littlejohn while Chris talks about Dickens' love of Scotland1 hr 16 min - What About Debbie (Walford Bodie, The Britannia Panopticon & The Failed Darien Scheme)
We're back!
This week we talk about Walford Bodie, the magical man with electricity at his fingertips, the Britannia Panopticon and the Darien Scheme, which was (spoiler alert) a disaster.1 hr 13 min - Just As Bad As Incest (James Braid's Hypnotism and Glamis Castle Ghosts)
Episode 56 is here, folks! Thanks, as always, for listening and supporting. If you can, please rate review and subscribe to us! It will make the world of difference and we’ll love you forever.
This week Chris takes us step-by-step through his latest outing, we ask ourselves which children’s films were scarier than they ought to be and Hannah introduces us to a much loved, but seldom seen, member of the family.Hannah than takes us through the history of hypnotism and its surprising Scottish roots!
Chris then walks us through the much haunted grounds of Glamis Castle and the folk who refuse to leave.1 hr 28 min - Criss-Cross Apple Sauce (The Great Lafayette and Alexander McQueen)
Once again we return for a pretty looking number: 55.
This week we tllk about which literary characters we would most like to meet/advise.
Then Chris takes us through the mysterious life and tragic end of The Great Lafayette before Hannah takes us through Alexander McQueen's pride in his Scottish heritage and the collections it inspired as well as the popularisation of tartan as a national garb.
1 hr 21 min - What's A-Kraken (The Mary Celeste and the Gurning Man)
Hello hello!
Well we finally made it. After a hellish technical disaster we have finally made episode 54 happen!
Hannah this week continues with the maritime theme and discusses the wild mystery of the Mary Celeste ghost ship, while Chris takes us just down the road to Crosshill, Glasgow and the 70's mystery Gurning Man
1 hr 6 min - Hooray For Hygiene (Blythswood Square Bath Ghost and Takin’ Over the Asylum)This week Hannah and Chris chat about underrated musicals before heading into story time. Chris covers Glasgow's very own bath ghost and Hannah talks about the treatment of mental health back in the day and Takin’ Over the Asylum, starring a babyfaced David Tennant1 hr 7 min
- Even Giraffes Have Ghosts (Halloween Traditions, 'Hocus Pocus' and the Salem Witch Trials)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Yes it is our favourite time of year at last, which also marks the end of our first year of podcasting.Thanks so much for all your support so far!Hannah takes us through the All Hallows Eve traditions of Samhain and how it influenced the Halloween we know today.
Chris then talks about his literal life force: Hocus Pocus and the real life Salem Witch Trials
2 hr 7 min - Wee Gothisode 3: "Man Proposes, God Disposes", Sir Edwin Landseer, 1864Happy Halloween!To celebrate spooky season, Hannah brings us the strange urban myth concerning a Victorian painting - what fate purportedly befell a student after looking at the work, and just why is it considered an omen of bad luck?8 min
- Pencils, Get Your Pencils (William Bury and Agatha Christie in Torquay)
One week to go before our 52nd episode! Can you believe!
Chris talks about the very last man hanged for murder in Dundee who had crimes very similar to someone you may know of already.
Hannah talks about the incredible mystery novelist, Agatha Christie, and the mystery she found herself front and centre of.
1 hr 31 min
About A Wee Bit Gothic
From the publisher's feed
Hannah Brown and Chris McLeish are two creatives from the Gothic city, Glasgow. Their fascination with all things gothic began at a young age but now as twenty-somethings they want to share their thoughts and feelings.
From murder to literature, ghosts to architecture and maybe even the occasional film chat, they've got all your gothic interests covered.