Fogland Lighthouse

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Fogland Lighthouse

Fogland Lighthouse is a narrative non-fiction podcast that shines a light on the obscure, overlooked and downright weird stories from British history, with words and music by award-winning writer and composer Jack Dean. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, often a bit of both.‘Artists like storyteller Jack Dean make us excited about what they might do next’ - The Guardian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 12: The Shadow

    In which some things end, and others begin.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying- Arrest and incarceration-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty- Classism- Mental IllnessLinks:Support Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 11: Broadcasting the Barricades

    In which a new technology obscures the truth. An ambitious veteran takes to the airwaves.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses- Mental Illness- Classism- Self-harm and suicideLinks:Support Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Abolitionist FuturesSources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 10: Be Gay, Do Crime

    In which dungeons dark and gallows grim start to beckon. Our heroes must risk their freedom.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying- Blood- Arrest and incarceration- Torture-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty- ClassismLinks:Support Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 9: Crash

    In which we break the stuff that isn't ours. A small village takes action.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty- Classism- Arrest and incarcerationLinks:Support Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 8: An Affair Of The Heart

    In which we take a day of rest. Shepherds tend their flocks. Can we love our neighbour if the street is on fire?Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses- Classism- Kidnapping and abductionSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 7: A Dose Of Sidney Street

    In which there are wars and rumours of wars. The game is afoot.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses-Sexism and misogyny- Sexual assault- Arrest and incarceration This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund.- Police brutality- ClassismSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 6: Something Besides Nerve

    In which our heroes try and talk their way out of the situation. A famous liberal tries to hear both sides.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses- ClassismSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 5: Don't Believe Anything You Hear

    In which a forgotten admiral muscles his way into the story. Our heroes publish and are damned.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses-Racism and racial slurs-ClassismLinksSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 4: It Is He Who Commands

    In which we finally settle what it means to be middle class. A dangerous minority raise the stakes.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying- Arrest and incarceration-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty- Kidnapping and abductionSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 3: Disaffection

    In which a spectre haunts Britain. The government wonders who they're gonna call.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying- Arrest and incarceration- Discussions of colonialism-Swears or curses- Mental Illness-Animal cruelty- ClassismSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 2: If We Live

    In which we introduce our four quasi-protagonists, and some of the ideas they represent.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty ClassismSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy 1: Hope In Work And Joy In Leisure

    In which we track the history of work from its very beginning, and the stories we tell about it. The workers, the owners, and why they just can't get along.Content Warnings:-Violence-Death or dying- Blood-Swears or curses-Animal cruelty- ClassismSupport Us.Jack Dean & Company Website.Sources.This series is supported by the Great Western Railway Customer and Community Improvement Fund. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The Road To Anarchy: Trailer

    Something New Is Coming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Yet Another Programming Announcement

    "The future is no more uncertain than the present" - Walt Whitman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 25: A Stormy Petrel, or, Five Badges

    "Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver." - Constance MarkieviczSupport us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/jackdeanPresented by Jack Dean and Company, a disabled-led, artist-owned non-profit telling stories of how things could be. Check out our other work here.Content warnings: Strong language, imprisonment, descriptions of gun violence, discussions of settler-colonialist violence..For this show we used “Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)” e by the British Library, which is available under the creative commons attribution share alike 4.0 international license. You can see the track here and the license here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 24: The Minute Men

    Support us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/jackdeanPresented by Jack Dean and Company, a disabled-led, artist-owned non-profit telling stories of how things could be. Check out our other work here.Content warnings: misophonia: ticking clock, strong language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 23: The Watch

    "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." - Homer, The OdysseyPresented by Jack Dean and Company, a disabled-led, artist-owned non-profit telling stories of how things could be. Check out our work here.Content warnings: misophonia: whispering, fire, drug use, strong language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 22: George and Ludwig

    Support us here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-owned non-profit telling stories of how things could be. Check out our stuff here.Content Warnings: Mental Illness, descriptions of racism, quotational use of racist language.For this show we used the recordings of all three movements of Beethoven’s Violin sonata number 9 as performed by Paul Rosenthal and Edward Auer, which are available under the creative commons attribution share alike license.You can view the tracks here, and the license here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 21: The Drunken Reaper

    "Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." - Lord Byron. Support us: https://buymeacoffee.com/jackdean .Content Warnings: Death, Climate Change, Threat to Children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Programming announcement

    "Lack of money is the root of all evil" - George Bernard Shaw. Fight evil here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 20: A Letter From Home

    Check out the album here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.You can read a full transcript of the episode here.Content warnings: strong language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 19: Surely The Sky Lies Open

    "I am an Ancient Mariner of the Upper Atmosphere" Charles Green.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Content warnings: Aerial crashes.Read the episode transcript here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 18: Hey, Mr DJ

    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich NietzschePresented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Read the episode transcript here.Content warnings: strong language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 17: Suggestions For A Monument

    "The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead." - William Lloyd Garrisson.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Read the episode transcript here.Content warnings: strong language, descriptions of genocide, discussions of white supremacy & racial violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 16: Merry Heistmas

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Read the episode transcript here.Content warnings: strong language, mentions of violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 15: Thinking Machines

    "Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds....may then with the fair white wings of Imagination hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.” Ada ByronPresented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Read the episode transcript here.Content warnings: death, incest, mental illness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 14: The Bear House

    Content warnings: imprisonment, cruelty to animals, death.Read the episode transcript here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 13: The Seventh Rule Of Fight Club

    "The Prince of Bruisers, by Vainglory hurt / Has laid at last his conquests in the dirt".From The Bruisder Bruis'd, author unknown.Content warnings: descriptions of physical violence, death.Read the full episode transcript here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 12: The Ghost of Dean Street

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Read the episode transcript here.Content warnings: strong language, mentions of violence, murder, plague, imprisonment & child death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 11: Land Under Wave

    Content Warning: Climate Change.Read the episode transcript here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Season 2 Announcement

    "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"- L.M. Montgomery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 10: A Wholly Incomplete History of Mountaineering

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Come see us on tour: www.jackdean.co.uk/gigs/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 9: Duty / Free

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be.Come see us on tour: www.jackdean.co.uk/gigs/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 8: Nine Days, Part 2

    "Yet, besides the deep way, I was much hindered by the desire people had to see me." Will Kemp. Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 7: Nine Days, Part 1

    “And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.” William Shakespeare.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 6: Bricky McBrickface

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 5: The Gale

    Check out the Library Presents Programme here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 4: Skytanic

    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo da VinciCheck out the Library Presents Programme here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 3: All Hail

    “No longer permit the Feast of Fools to take place....since it is full of emptiness and filthy with lusts, hateful to God and lovable by demons.” - Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln.Check out the Library Presents Programme here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 2: The Smallest Hill in Surrey

    Check out the Library Presents Programme here.Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Episode 1: The Empire of Roy

    Presented by Jack Dean & Company, a disabled-led, artist-run non-profit telling stories about how things could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Trailer

    2 million active podcasts in the world. I'm adding one more. What could go wrong? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Fogland Lighthouse is a narrative non-fiction podcast that shines a light on the obscure, overlooked and downright weird stories from British history, with words and music by award-winning writer and composer Jack Dean. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, often a bit of both.‘Artists like storyteller Jack Dean make us excited about what they might do next’ - The Guardian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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