Newcastle Upon Crime

A comeuppance! Huzzah! Bravery from the servants and all round bloody brilliant women, many of them called Mary but thank christ for them and their courage and quick wit. Join Jade and Lesley-anne for their final instalment of this drama soaked adventure, cast your bodice to the wind and embrace your freedom! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Jade and Lesley-anne on this bonus Christmas episode, all was jolly for some miners coming home from work having a snowball fight on the way home from the pub and then someone ruins it with a shotgun. This episode includes an invitation to venues from previous episodes for some gorgeous festive scran - will you be joining us down the captains head for a pint and a dido? Or perhaps a packet of monkeys and a plate of Offal down the manky nightie is more your scene. Farewell and adieu until season two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Be warned in this episode there are descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Lady Eleanor Bowes exciting life takes a turn when trickster Stoney sets his sights on her fortune. Join us and hate along as we continue the tale of a marriage that scandalised Georgian England. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part 2 of the Mary Eleanor Bowes saga, fortunes are frittered, corsets are fiddled and all manner of petty and salacious behaviour is going on in a hothouse. Join Lesley-anne and Jade as we live life at full throttle burning through our inheritances, popping out children and then die Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Jade and Lesley-anne for Part 1 of this absolute bodice ripper of a tale of Lady Eleanor Bowes, the Gibside heiress harried by the scandal soaked Andrew Robinson Stoney, expect kidnapping, abduction and attempted murder. Latch them cats onto your nipples and chocs away! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for a pint and some fish down the captains head and hear the story of a nautical crime in Sunderland, a silky cap and a jazzy boot may have driven a man to murder! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A brewers account of the bad behaviour by the Newcastle Aldermen gives us an insight into our Northern witch trials, poor souls accused and executed in the service of one mans greed.Join Lesley-anne and Jade, Brown Jenkin and Black Phillip as we delve down the devils hot toilet of historical misdeeds. Image by Lianne Bell #liaartattack Music by Ali@Xennonstudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holy Saviours Church in North Shields is the site of a crime provoked by a poison pen letter, a vicar and the pub locals help find the perp! Image by Lianne Bell #liaartattack Music by Ali@Xennonstudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We love a spirit cabinet, especially one filled with musical instruments. Listen to the tale of two American brothers who brought their spiritualist act to the crowds in Newcastle Upon Tyne and things did not go quite to plan. Image by Lianne Bell #liaartattack Music by Ali@Xennonstudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Living conditions for some in the late 1800's in poor areas of Newcastle and Gateshead were shocking - no wonder people turned to crime. What did they wear? Where do they go to the loo? and what is bung? All these questions and many more get answered in this episode. Image by Lianne Bell #liaartattack Music by Ali@Xennonstudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.