Ep 244 is loose and we're back with the Borgias for another dive into this famous family's secrets - particularly the death of one sibling...

Who would want Juan/Giovanni Borgia dead? Who was sleeping with who? And what did the donkey know?

The secret ingredient is...a masked man!

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Sources this week include Peter Strathern's The Borgias: Power & Fortune, Professor Catherine Fletcher & Not Just The Tudors, CrimeReads, The Guardian, and various Wiki rabbit holes.

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Episode 243 is loose, and we have the little-known tale of Luther Jones, a career criminal! And a bad one at that.

Why did Luther turn to a life of crime? Why did he keep making mistakes? And how do you serve your bean beverages?

The secret ingredient is...poker!

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Ep 242 is loose! And we're taking a look at some of the worst popes in history - criminals, plotters, and madmen.

Why did so many Popes live debauched lives? Why was a dead pope put on trial at Cadaver Synod? And who was plotting to poison Pope Leo X in an...unusual way?

The secret ingredient is...a pope!

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Sources this week include:

• https://medium.com/@mwfraser/the-cadaver-synod-when-the-corpse-of-a-dead-pope-was-put-on-trial-and-executed-1c9f3b82b11f
• https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/
• https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/dead-pope-put-on-trial.htm
• https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-popes-in-history-2017-1#julius-ii-had-a-bad-case-of-syphilis-8
• https://www.thesmartset.com/article05111001/
• https://theconversation.com/the-ostentatious-story-of-the-young-pope-leo-x-his-pet-elephant-the-cardinal-he-killed-and-his-anal-fistula-171499
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-elephant-buried-beneath-vatican-180957013/
• https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/murder-vatican
• https://reformation500.csl.edu/pope-leo-x/
• Guicciardini, The Historie of Guicciardin

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Ep 241 is loose and we're off to China for one of Nick's famous episodes from the Far East. And it's a brutal tale of murder and mystery this time...

Who was Pamela Werner? Who would want her dead? And where would you definitely not go cycling?

The secret ingredient is...Beijing!

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Ep 240 is loose! And this week we look at the multitude of men who seemingly tried to get rid of Queen Victoria.

Who were the seven assailants? Did they really want the queen dead? And how do YOU walk around the park?

The secret ingredient is...assassins!

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Sources this week include:

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20230519-how-assassins-revealed-a-hidden-side-to-queen-victoria
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Oxford#Historiography
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5m5zjvDYrBMBGFJCFNmWgcY/the-seven-men-who-tried-to-kill-queen-victoria
• https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/
• https://www.history.com/news/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Maclean
• Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy
• How To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman

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Ep 239 is loose! And we have a good ol' fashioned poisoning story from the deadly Lyda Southard.

Who was this flame haired beauty? Why did so many men sign her papers? And will there be an alarm this week...?

The secret ingredient is...fever!

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A sizzlingly sensational special bumper Q&A episode, to mark 5 years of the Poisoners' Cabinet!

Nick and Sinead answer a stack of questions from fans about the show, about life and about snacks. It's a much more relaxed episode with no main case and lots of silly fun, and occasional grown-up content.

Thank you everyone, for an amazing 5 years; we love you to the moon and back!

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Ep 238 is loose on our 5th birthday - and to celebrate we're going to Rome!

We dip our toe into the huge history of the Roman Empire and chat weird facts and crazy stories featuring famous and lesser known figures from the ancient city...

Was Caligula really as mad as people said? Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? And what do you write on your curse tablets?

The secret ingredient is...Rome itself!

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Sources this week include A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum by Emma Southon, HIstory Today, History HIT, National Geographic:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CP/27/2/Poisoning*.html 

https://www.thecollector.com/early-christian-martyrs/ 

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/causes-early-persecutions

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/10-questions-about-emperor-nero-and-some-curious-answers

https://www.italyonthisday.com/2019/01/assassination-of-caligula-Roman-emperor-excess-cruelty.html

http://ad43.org.uk/blog/caligula-and-the-sea-shells/

https://thehistorianshut.com/2018/12/09/nero-reportedly-survived-an-assassination-attempt-because-of-a-discarded-snakeskin/

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Was Giulia Tofana a murderer...or a saviour?

This is the question posed by Cathryn Kemp in her new historical fiction novel, A Poisoner's Tale - a retelling of the legend of Giulia and her poison, Aqua Tofana.

Cathryn kindly joined us to talk about her process for writing the book, the story of Giulia and the main players in her story, and her advice for aspiring writers.

A Poisoner's Tale is now available on hardback at all good independent and high street bookshops, and through Penguin.

You can follow Cathryn at @cathryn_kemp  on Instagram and at https://cathrynkemp.com/

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Ep 236 is loose! And we're headed to Quincy, Illinois where a dashing young man has arrived at his extended family's farm with big tales and big promises...

Who was Stephen Ballew? What business did he really do? And how do you like your silk shirts?

The secret ingredient is...flint! 

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