Bad, Mad & Northern
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6. Stolen from the Grave: The North's Body Snatchers
October 7, 2026 · 35 minHow long would your grave stay yours? In the 1820s, the answer might have been a matter of days. Anatomy schools needed bodies, the law supplied very few, and across the north of England a trade grew up to fill the gap. Bodies moved like…
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5. Spooky Season reveal: What's Lurking in the North This October?
October 3, 2026 · 5 minWho was digging up the dead of the North? What would you give up so a city a hundred miles away could turn on a tap? And how did a holiday in Whitby create the most famous toothed monster in the world? In this short voice note, Lucy says a…
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4. The Scuttlers: Victorian Manchester's Teenage Gangs
September 30, 2026 · 34 minContent note: this episode includes violence against children and teenagers, including the deaths of two boys under eighteen. For more than thirty years, from 1870 to the early 1900s, the streets of Manchester and Salford belonged to the…
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3. Regicide, Part Two: Yorkshire and the King's Revenge
September 30, 2026 · 23 minContent note: this episode includes descriptions of executions and exhumed human remains. In May 1660, Charles II rode back into London to cheering crowds. For the men who had signed his father's death warrant, the celebrations meant…
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2. Regicide, Part One: Yorkshire and the Killing of a King
September 30, 2026 · 30 minContent note: this episode includes descriptions of war and a public execution. On 30 January 1649, King Charles I stepped out onto a scaffold in Whitehall. Fifty-nine men had signed his death warrant, and a striking number of them came…
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1. John George Haigh: Wakefield's Acid Bath Murderer
September 30, 2026 · 40 minContent note: This episode includes discussion of murder and human remains. In 1949, detectives searching a builder's yard in Crawley uncovered fragments of evidence that should not have survived: bone, dentures, a handbag clasp, and tiny…