This week we are talking about a man who dealt with his grief in a particularly extreme manner. Former petty London Criminal Edward Low was a man of extremes, which is why he responded to the untimely death of his wife by becoming a pirate and engaging on a three year campaign of death and destruction.

Capable of extreme cruelty which he would justify with a very idiosyncratic moral code Ned Low provided the exclamation mark to the end of the golden age of Piracy and has gone down in history as the most bloodthirsty pirate who has ever existed.

So join us for a tale of badly named ships, questionable cooking techniques and blood, blood, blood!

Guest Host: Emma Heathcote

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