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Season: 3 Episode: 37

Even after her conviction, Sarah freeman claimed she was innocent as a lamb until the day she died, but there's no denying the death toll of people in the family of this woman described as having a vicious temper and character that caused her parent to worry

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SOURCES

SomersetLive

Berkshire Chronicle - Saturday 26 April 1845

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 24 April 1845

Capital Punishment UK

Portrait of Sarah Freeman from “Life And Execution Of The Diabolical Murderess, Sarah Freeman.” The Taunton Courier And Western Advertiser

“Murder By A Woman Of Her Husband, Children Mother, And Brother.” The Age and Argus (London, England), The Jan. 18, 1845

Vogue

Smithsonian.com

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Season: 3 Episode: 36

It was supposed to be an evening of celebration. Two brothers, who'd been at war with each other, were sitting down in the home of their solicitor, Mr Jarrit Smith. One was Captain Samuel Goodere, the captain of Her Majesty's ship 'Ruby'.

The argument was over the fact that Sir John Dinely Goodere, Baronet and Admiral had cut off his brother, Samuel Goodere from inheriting a large estate in Worcestershire, which, he felt, should have gone to him.

What happened next showed exactly how desperate Captain Goodere was and how far he would go to get what he wanted.

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SOURCES

Bristol Mercury - Saturday 15 January 1870

Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Dineley Goodere, Baronet, who was Murdered by the Contrivance of His Own Brother, on Board the Ruby Man of War, in King's Road, Near Bristol, Jan. 19, 1740 By Samuel Foote

Ancestry

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Season: 3 Episode: 35

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, the United States of America adopted a policy of strict neutrality. The sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat in May 1915 that changed everything. 128 US citizens lost their lives and suddenly fury spread through the country. and they declared war on Germany.

Listen to a few of the letters sent back home from the front line by those brave souls who fought for democracy.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

Leavenworth Post 30th Jan 1919

The San Francisco Examinet 15 April 1934

Imperial War Museum

Glenside Hospital Museum

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

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Season: 3 Episode: 34

When Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837, politics, religion, and family life were reformed throughout her 63-year reign. And as the times changed, so did the food that was placed on the table.

Discover some of the weirder foods they ate as well as some of the ways unscrupulous merchants would try and make more money, with deadly consequences.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

The Victorian Scene: 1837-1901. Nicolas Bentley. London: Spring Books, 1971, p. 100.

Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Anthony S Wohl. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983.

Western Daily Press – Monday 19 December 1859

Inverness Courier – Thursday 05 January 1860

Jack the Ripper Tour

Macclesfield Museums

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Season: 3 Episode: 33

With the sun shining on a wonderful Sunday evening, a group of friends wanted one last bathe in the sea. What happened next would leave their families shattered.

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If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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Season: 3 Episode: 32

There were only seven hangings in 1936, and Dr Buck Ruxton was one of them as he was involved in one of the United Kingdom's most publicised murder cases of the 1930s, which gripped the nation at the time. The case is remembered now, not only for it's brutality, but also for the innovative forensic techniques employed in solving it. 

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 December 1935

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 02 March 1936

Lacaster Castle Prison

Visit Lancaster

Lancaster Museum

Ancestry

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Season: 3 Episode: 31

In August 1896 Temple Crozier was playing his part in the melodrama play 'Sins of the Night', but when it came to the dramatic ending, things went horribly wrong, but what exactly happened that fateful night?

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

Manchester Guardian 13 August 1896

The Stage Beauty

The Illustrated Police News.

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Season: 3 Episode: 30

Sarah Siddons was one of the greatest English tragic actresses.

Among her greatest roles were Isabella, Belvidera in Venice Preserv’d, Jane Shore in The Tragedy of Jane Shore, Katharine in Henry VIII, but it was as Lady Macbeth that she shone. Her success was due to her complete concentration upon the character whom she played: she identified herself with a role and seemed possessed by it, oblivious of all else around her. Portraits of her were painted by Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Sir Joshua Reynolds; Reynolds entitled his painting Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse. William Hazlitt wrote of her that “passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified.”

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Bristish Museum

Jane Austin Centre

Irish Times - Friday 12 November 1909

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 April 1877

Tower Hamlets Independent and East End Local Advertiser - Saturday 08 June 1901

The Stage - Thursday 12 July 1934

The Satirist; or Censor of the Times, vol. I, no. 10, 12 June 1831, p. 78. Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals

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Season: 3 Episode: 29

The great age of highwaymen was the period from the Restoration in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. Some of them are known to have been disbanded soldiers and even officers of the English Civil War and French wars.

In this episode , you'll hear about a few of these robbers of the roads and their stories.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Ancestry

Outlaws and Highwaymen: the Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, Gillian Spraggs

The Old Bailey

The Outlaw Legend: a cultural tradition in Britain, America and Australia, Graham Seal

 Half-hours with the Highwaymen: picturesque biographies and traditions of the "knights of the road", George Charles

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Season: 3 Episode: 28

When he was spotted, Patrick Cotter was working as a bricklayer in the small Medieval town of Kinsale on the west Cork coast of Ireland where he had been born.

He was 18 years old and ideally equipped for bricklaying. He was up to 8ft 8in tall and could reach a cottage roof without a ladder, and he had hands so large that they rendered a hod obsolete.

Patrick was one of only 12 men in medical history to be verified as over 8ft, according to Wikipedia and he has an amazing story.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

If you liked it please leave a rating and maybe a comment and if you’d like to support the show with a donation, however small, you can go to Ko-Fi.com

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So, thankyou for listening and until next time guys, take care and look after each other.

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SOURCES

Northern Echo

Irish Post 30 June 2018.

DeBarra, Damien (9 February 2006). "Waking The Dead: Standing on the Bones of Irish Giants". blather.net.

G. Frankcom and J. H. Musgrave, The Irish giant (1976)

Fermanagh Herald - Saturday 11 July 1903

Western Chronicle - Friday 23 March 1906

Derry Journal - Monday 09 July 1906

Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Friday 19 September 1806

Felix Farley's journal  dated 13/09/1806.

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