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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
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This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking... more

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Episodes

Easter Rising: Build-Up To Irish Rebellion

(Part 1/2) With Britain engaged in the First World War in Europe, Irish rebels sensed an opportunity.Irish revolutions had fought... more

27 Mar 2025 · 52 minutes
Black Death: 5 Strangest Cures

It was a plague like no other. It provoked strange cures like no other. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling in... more

24 Mar 2025 · 42 minutes
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Trial & Execution

(Part 2/2) Joan of Arc, mystic leader of a French army, was captured and sold to the English who tried... more

20 Mar 2025 · 34 minutes
Black Death: Inside Medieval Lockdown

Around 50% of everyone in Europe died during the Black Death. It's very hard to make sense of that. What... more

17 Mar 2025 · 46 minutes
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Rise to Fame

(Part 1/2) So many things make Joan of Arc iconic. The fearless, crossdressing warrior saint who dies a martyr's death.... more

13 Mar 2025 · 36 minutes
Black Death: The Origin Story

The myth goes thus: the Black Death reached Christendom at the Siege of Caffa when Mongols catapulted diseased bodies over... more

10 Mar 2025 · 40 minutes
Death at the Savoy Mansions: Post-War London's Drug Underworld

During the victory celebrations of World War One, a rising star is found dead in her bed after a suspected... more

06 Mar 2025 · 39 minutes
The Servants' Revenge: Arsenic & a Poisoned Pint of Beer

Why did two servants living in Plymouth, England, poison their whole household in 1675? How did they sneak arsenic into... more

03 Mar 2025 · 51 minutes
The Curse of King Tutankhamun's Tomb

Untimely deaths followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. Coincidence or ancient curse? When the tomb of King... more

26 Feb 2025 · 57 minutes
Final Days of Thomas Cromwell

From ruthless schemer to pragmatic hero - who is the real Thomas Cromwell? And how did he meet his end?... more

24 Feb 2025 · 53 minutes
Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands

(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home... more

20 Feb 2025 · 39 minutes
Peasants' Revolt: Murder in the Tower of London

(2/2) A boy King, a rebel army, and the first ever execution at Tower Hill. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney... more

17 Feb 2025 · 42 minutes
Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands

On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe,... more

13 Feb 2025 · 35 minutes
Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion

1381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry... more

10 Feb 2025 · 34 minutes
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 2)

(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg,... more

06 Feb 2025 · 34 minutes
Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague

It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly... more

03 Feb 2025 · 41 minutes
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)

(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen... more

30 Jan 2025 · 43 minutes
Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?

Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a... more

27 Jan 2025 · 43 minutes
Is the Devil Dead?

(2/2) What does the resurrection of a hanged woman have to do with the Devil? Did the Enlightenment kill Old... more

23 Jan 2025 · 37 minutes
Final Days of Henry VIII

You could smell Henry VIII's rotting legs from three rooms by the end. He was in constant pain, barely able... more

20 Jan 2025 · 39 minutes
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)
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(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen Rappaport joins... more