Ruth is Stranger Than Fiction

Episode 3 - The St Neots Poisoner Part 1 : So Many Poisons!


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Here we are again for some new discussions inspired by the morbid history of East Anglia. I turn my attention to Victorian England and the advent of forensic toxicology. Expect a lot of poison chat and rather too much faulty information from three people who really know very little about the subject. Jo McPhee joins me once more, along with Jake Dyer and our usual themed boozes. Why were there so many cases of arsenic poisoning in 19th Century England? Which John Snow is the best? And what in the world is adipocere? All this and more contained within.

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