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Who Did What Now
by Katie Charlwood
Whoever said history was boring obviously wasn’t paying attention. Each week, join Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books, as she delves into the people, places and events that make history a bit more interesting! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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213. The Disappearance of Joan Risch
On the 24th October 1961, a housewife in a quiet suburban town vanished in the middle of the day, leaving behind two children, some library books, and a kitchen covered in blood. To this day, this is one of the most baffling missing-persons case in Massachusetts' history... Hosted by Katie...
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212. Lord Lucan - Murder, Madness and a Missing Earl
On a cold November evening, 1974, a woman storms into the Plumbers Arms in Belgravia, London, blood pouring down her face, she barely makes it three steps in before collapsing. When she comes to she tells the crowd gathered round her that she's been attacked, her nanny has been murdered and her...
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211. Yoshie Shiratori - Japan's Houdini
Yoshie Shiratori has become a folk hero in Japan, known as the Meiji Jailbreak King, there was no cell that could hold him, if he didn't want to be there. the Japanese Houdini managed to escape from prison on four separate occasions. So listen up and hear about this Japanese Folk Hero. Hosted by...
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210. The Real Great Escape
The true story of the Great Escape, when the prisoners of Stalag Luft III, the Luftwaffe-run prisoner of war camp in Nazi-occupied Poland tried to dig their way to freedom with their three tunnels Tom, Dick & Harry! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm On tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to…
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209. Lizzie Borden Part 1 & 2 - From the Vault
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 30 whacks... With the release of Ryan Murphy's Lizzie Borden show on Netflix and considering how liberal he is with you know, history and facts, I thought I would put together my full stoy on Lizzie Borden pulled from the Vault in one convenient…
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Bittisode 017: Up and Away - The Mountjoy Helicopter Escape
On Halloween 1973 a helicopter landed in Ireland's Mountjoy prison, two minutes later it left with three head honchos of the IRA in one of the most audacious jailbreaks of the 20th Century. Leave room for snacks with a bittiside to nibble on! Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm On tour! First Tickets…
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208. The Maze Prison Escape
On the 25th of September 1983 the largest jailbreak in UK penal history happened just a few miles southwest of Belfast, when 38 prisoners broke out of H Block 7 at Maze prison, or Long Kesh, and fled the prison, inside a prison, inside an army base. Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm On tour! First...
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207. Escape from Alcatraz
In San Francisco Bay sits the once mighty fortress, a place that held America's most dangerous criminals, a concrete prison built upon Devil's Island, surrounded by a tempestupus sea, fearsome winds and shark infested waters, a prison no man could escape... or so they claimed... Hosted by Katie...
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Introducing: Born To The Game Podcast | Shaya Bryant: Daughter of Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, Sister of Kobe, On Her Untold Story (Part 1)
What's it really like growing up as the daughter of an NBA player and the sister of a global icon? Shaya Bryant — daughter of NBA and European league legend Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, and sister of Kobe Bryant — joins Born To The Game for Part 1 of a deeply personal two-part conversation about…
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206. Eva Braun - Hitler's Mistress
Eva Braun is a figure from history sometimes portrayed as a feather-brained ditz, and others as a master manipulator and powerful political player in the Third Reich. The thing about Eva Braun is that no-one really knew who she was until after the war ended and she was dead. But who really was...
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205. Unit 731 - Japan's Covert Human Experimentation Program
Unit 731 is one of WWII's lesser known horrors. Imperial Japan's covert biological warfare research and development unit that engaged in brutal and inhumane experimentation on victims known as "logs." These prisoners were infected with pathogens, deadly diseases from dysentery to the plague,...
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204. The Bitch of Buchenwald - Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch is one of the most notorious women of the Third Reich, a women whose crimes were so heinous, she would be known worldwide as the Bitch of Buchenwald, stories of her deeds printed in newspapers across the world. But did this woman really parade around the slave labour camp in nothing but...
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203. Coco Chanel - The Fascist Fashionista - From the Vault
Coco Chanel is one of the most iconic names in fashion, popularised the tan, invented the little black dress LBD, etc, unfortunately she was also a Nazi collaborator. Hosted by Katie Charlwood BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!!…
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202. Aaron Burr - Sir!
Aaron Burr is a man you may know as the guy who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson and then shot a guy who rap-sings. But the story of Aaron Burr, Sir, is much more interesting that Lin Manuel Miranda put on the stage. So curl up with your cocoa and lets hear all about Aaron Burr!…
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201. The Protest Psychosis
During the Civil Rights Era, a new diagnosis emerged, a very specific form of schizophrenia that disproportinally targed Black Men... Hosted by Katie Charlwood BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Resources Tell me where to go on tour! First Tickets now released!!! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at:...
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200. Belle Gunness - Butcher of Men
200th Episode!!! We're on episode 200 and to celebrate here is a bonus episode about a murderess, Lady Bluebeard, Butcher of Men, Hell's Bell, the one, the only, Belle Gunness, a woman who may be America's most prolific serial killer. Just when you thought the story couldnt get worse, it did....
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199. Inherited Wounds : Indigenous Boarding School System
The United States of America is 250 years old..ish, but in becoming the USA, entire communities, nations and cultures were crushed beneath teh wheel of "progress." Indigenous people in North America were removed from their land, had their practices, knowledge and culture stripped from them. One…
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198. The Life and Death Of Marsha P Johnson
Marsha P Johnson is a queer icon, the Saint of Christopher Street, an important member of teh LGBTQ+ community, who advocated for equal rights, fought for the disenfranchised and preotected queer youth. A pillar of the community, she struggled in a world that did not accept her. Her life was one...
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197. The AIDS Crisis
In the early 1980s, doctors in the US started noticing clusters of unusual illnesses like cancers and pmeumonia in healthy young men, the only thing that connected them, was that they were sexually active with other men. An epidemic emerged, a disease with no name, as a mysterious, highly fatal...
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196. The Lavender Scare
In the era of McCarthyism, thousands of people were forced out of the federal government for being gay. Victims purged from positions, because being a homosexual was to be a threat to to national security...allegedlys Hosted by Katie Charlwood Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day &…
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195. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
Did you hear? Elon Musk is now the world's first "Trillionaire." Enjoy this From the Vault Anyway, some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's...
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194. Pope Leo X - From the Vault
Continuing Pride Month with one of my favourite things, telling y'all all about bad popes! We've got nepotism, murder, homosexial espionage AND a conpiracy involving a pet elephant! Pull up a chair and hear abotut Pope Leo X Hosted by Katie Charlwood Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day &...
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193. Chevaliere d'Eon
Kicking off Pride Month with this Beauty from the Vault, the 18th Century Trans Spy, the Chevalière d'Éon Hosted by Katie Charlwood Tell me where to go on tour! Listen to Day & Nightshade Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook…
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William Palmer - Day and Nightshade
Introducing your new True Crime fix, Day and Nightshade, podcast that asks you What's Your Poison? And means it... Join Katie Charlwood and Jay McLoughlin in Victorian England, as they share the twisted tale of William Palmer, the "Prince of Poisoners" who gained the title with all of the…
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Introducing - Day and Nightshade
Introducing Day and Nightshade, the podcast that asks you "what's your poison?" and means it. For your new favourite True Crime fix (and poison fascination) listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and... other places probably Y'know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic Hosted on Acast. See...
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192. Errol Flynn - Swashbuckling Scoundrel
Errol Flynn was a Hollywood heartthrob in the Golden Era, a swashbuckler who the ladies would swoon at the sight of, but beneath that dashing exterior was a man filled with demons and more narcotics you could shake a stick at. Accused of affairs, assaults and sympathising the enemy there is more…
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From the Vault - Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a Hollywood star who wanted to be alone, but before that she was a sex symbol who combatted gender norms and wanted to poison the leader of the Third Reich with a poison hair pin, which, could have worked, we maybe should have let her try... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate…
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191. Mary Pickford - America's Sweetheart
Mary Pickford was America's Sweetheart, a silent film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the first to be offered a million dollar contract and one of th ecreaors of the Little Three... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on…...
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190. Charles Lightoller
Best known as the highest ranking crewmember to survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic, there is more to this man than just one ship, including so many near - death experiences, two world wars and a chicken coop...or two Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom…
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189. The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Margaret Brown
The UNSINKABLE Margaret "Molly" Brown was a passenger on the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship, the White Star Line's RMS Titanic which sank on the North Atlantic ocean. But shes far more interesting than you know... Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at...
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188. Voilet Jessop
On the 14th April 1912 the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship, the White Star Line's RMS Titanic sank on the North Atlantic ocean, on board was Miss Unsinkable, the stewardess Violet Jessop, but the Titanic sinking is not the only part of her story Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate...
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187. Miss Piggy
From humble beginnings to international stardom, Miss Piggy made sure that she would get the life that she deserved! She is a beacon (not bacon) of style, charm and a certain je ne sais quoi, if you want to know about this icon then loom no further! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon…
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186. Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was a whirlwind in a new form of journalism - Stunt Girl Journalism! At 23 years old she spent 10 days in the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, exposing the mistreatment of the marginilised in these institutions and sparking reform. Her investigative journalism would take…
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185. The Tuam 796
in 1975 two boys are playing out by the ruins of the old Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, ireland. They find a hole filled with very small bones. They tell everyone what tehy find and it is assumed that this is a famine grave. It's sealed up and ignored for 40 years until someone starts...
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Magdalene Laundries - From the Vault
The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were working and residing in them. Their history should not be forgotten. orld Pageant is a historic event that you've probably never heard of. On November...
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184. Countess Constance Markievicz - Revolutionary Woman
Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gaining indepence from the Britsh Empire. H orld Pageant is a historic event that you've probably never heard of. On November 20th 1970, worlds…
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183. Gisèle Pelicot - To Hell and Back
Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when she was brought into a police station in November 2020, where she was faced with the fact that she was abused by strangers for a decade, all of which was facilitated by her...
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182. Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember, Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar Beacons (at the bottom of the page) Follow me on… Instagram TikTok Facebook Bluesky Fan Mail: Katie Charlwood C/O…
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181. Katherine Johnson - NASA's Human Computer
Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and Black scientists. She was a mathematician, a human computer and an American hero. She's got the medals to prove it! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate...
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From the Vault - William Dorsey Swann- Queen of Drag
It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the beacon of ballroom. Joy is an act of resistance, so listen up to the story of the first Queen of Drag! Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate at: Patreon Tip...
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180. Robert Smalls Vs the Confederacy
Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to freedom and then fights the very nation that kept him in chains, well that's something worth talking about, welcome to the life of Robert Smalls....
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179. Black Dahlia - Part 2
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia. So much of her life and death twisted by myth and bias... Hosted by Katie Charlwood…
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178. Black Dahlia - Part 1
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar...
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177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, and tried to dispose of his victims by liquifying them in barrels of acid, earning him the moniker The Acid Bath Killer. And so continues our month...
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176. Who Killed the King of Siam?
On the 9th June 1946, a shot rings out from the bedroom of the 20 year old monarch, Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam. And so continues our month long dive into 1940s crime... Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour! Get Your Tickets D&D Crafting - Early Access Donate at: Patreon Tip Jar…
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175. The Texarkana Moonlight Murders - Part II
This is the second half the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, where the Phantom Killer spread fear and paranoia through the twin city of Texarkana, leaving a trail of blood in his wake... And so continues our month long dive into 1940s crime... Hosted by Katie Charlwood D&D Crafting - Early Access I'm...
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174. The Texarkana Moonlight Murders - Part I
In 1946 the twin city of Texarkana would be haunted for by a masked stalking lovers lanes for his victims. The predator's reign of terror lasted 10 weeks, creating hysteria and panic in this somewhat gentle Southern community. And it all started with an attack on two such lovers on one fateful...
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173. Olivier Levasseur - Hidden Pirate Treasure
Olivier Levasseur showed up at the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy, plundering his way through both sides of the Atlantic, and claiming a booty second to that of Henry Avery himself, loot so astounding that treasure hunters have been trying to solve the mysterious cryptogram and find the...
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172. Jeanne de Clisson - Lioness of Brittany
Continuing our Pirate month, get ready for the tale of Jeanne de Clisson, the Lioness of Brittany, who swore revenge against the Kingdom of France and the man upon the French throne for taking from her that which he held dear... and she would have her revenge. Hosted by Katie Charlwood Donate to...
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171. Captain Morgan - Pirate, Knight & Politician - Part II
Welcome to the second half of the tale of the infamous Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, the Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccaneering Era in the Golden Age of Piracy, many tales and pirate adventures are based on the excursions by this fella from Wales. So during this piracy...
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Whoever said history was boring obviously wasn’t paying attention. Each week, join Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books, as she delves into the people, places and events that make history a bit more interesting!
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