This week, the World-Weary women discuss strange science and tech! Cassiopeia looks at the gruesome experiments conducted in the search for a cure for Yellow Fever. A 1980's school teacher living in a haunted cottage communicates with a 16th century vicar and a "friend from 2109" via an early microcomputer: Violet discusses the time-warp-technology case of The Dodleston Messages.

This week, the World-Weary women question "What's in a name?" with a coincidental rivalry theme. Violet explains the conquests of the mighty samurai warlord, Uesugi Kenshin: how they came to be known as the "Dragon of Echigo" and their famous rivalry with the "Tiger of Kai". Cassiopeia looks at the 19th century's scientific "name and shame" war that started with a Prince of Botany and ended with feuding palaeontologists.

This week, the World-Weary women are back with a Spooky Somerset Special! Cassiopeia drops the local scandal on the circus magnate that demanded the return of a "Witch" skeleton to his spooky attraction, the Wookey Hole Caves. Violet investigates the dark history of the haunted beauty spot and ancient monument, Dead Woman's Ditch.

This week, the World-Weary women polish some little gems. Violet explains the out-of-this-world origins of the mind-expanding Tektites, melted glass rocks believed to be formed by asteroid impacts. Cassiopeia discovers the history of the Opal and finds out why some consider it to be a jewel of misfortune.

This week, the World-Weary women investigate history's big egos. Cassiopeia looks at the wild lifestyle of baseball legend, Babe Ruth. Violet presents the violent reign of Fu Sheng, a Former Qin Dynasty emperor who was almost erased from the history books due to his cruelty and craziness.

This week, the World-Weary women invoke the atmospheric ghost lights of East Anglian legend. Violet presents the Lantern Man: a lamp wielding spirit that lures late night travellers to their deaths in the marshy Fenlands. Cassiopeia reads a 19th century account of a wise witch and some spooky lights in Norfolk.

This week the World-Weary women tell terrible colonial tales of the rich and valuable! Cassiopeia looks at the disturbing claim that a super rich Jameson Whiskey heir paid for a young slave to be cannibalised whilst he watched and painted a watercolour of the gruesome scene. In 1608, the world's biggest ever bell sank into the mud beneath the Yangon river, Myanmar: Violet presents a lost treasure, the Great Bell of Dhammazedi.

This week, the World-Weary women take a crash course in Stranger Danger! In 1973, two children playing in a field stumble upon a robot-alien-clown: Violet introduces “Sam the Sandown Clown” and it’s possible connection to UFO activity on the Isle of Wight. Cassiopeia tackles the disturbing sightings of the “Gimp Man” currently on the loose in Somerset, UK.

This week, the World-Weary women learn a thing or two. Cassiopeia looks at Diogenes the Cynic; a crazy and controversial Greek philosopher who famously lived in a large ceramic jar. Violet presents Sankoré Madrasa, an ancient university in Timbuktu that was once home to priceless libraries and the greatest scholars in the world.

This week, the World-Weary women encounter the mightiest monsters of mythology. Violet ventures into the pitch black darkness of the Labyrinth seeking the true origins of the Minotaur myth. Cassiopeia tells the terrible legend of Lamia, a Libyan queen who transforms into a child-eating monster and a nocturnal ghost-seductress.