This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking... more
1381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry... more
(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg,... more
It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly... more
(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen... more
Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a... more
(2/2) What does the resurrection of a hanged woman have to do with the Devil? Did the Enlightenment kill Old... more
You could smell Henry VIII's rotting legs from three rooms by the end. He was in constant pain, barely able... more
(1/2) How has the devil been depicted through history? What are his origins? And why should he be portrayed as... more
(2/2) As the Great Fire of London worsens mob rule begins to appear and a hunt for a scapegoat takes... more
The moment Mary Queen of Scots set foot in England, she became Elizabeth I's prisoner. Mary was fleeing from war... more