Episode 12: The Anatomy Murders of Burke and Hare

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Edinburgh Scotland, 1828, an acute shortage of medical cadavers leads to a lucrative underground trade in bodies stolen by grave-robbers and other crimes yet more sinister. Tune in for dubious medical ethics, dubious journalistic ethics, human-leather book-bindings and people pickles.

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