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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 1 | #64 |
About the show
Thrilling tales of people and the wild.
Join journalist and natural history super-fan Michelle Douglass, as we uncover the juiciest, strangest and most gripping true stories from our planet’s past.
From perilous polar expeditions and extreme survival stories to animal myths, legends, and natural history’s heroes, villains and oddballs - each month we dive into one unforgettable true tale, and explore the social history behind it with an expert guest.
The world is brilliantly beastly. Let’s explore. 🐾
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Latest episodes
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Terra Nova Expedition: Sex, Death and Survival in Antarctica (Part 2)
August 30, 2026 · 32 minIt’s 1912, and on the Terra Nova British Antarctic Expedition, scientist and explorer George Murray Levick and five other men are marooned on what they’ll come to call ‘Inexpressible Island’. Their ship has failed to return. The Antarctic…
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Terra Nova Expedition: Sex, Death and Survival in Antarctica (Part 1)
July 25, 2026 · 26 minYou may have heard of Captain Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. But do you know about the other gripping survival stories on history's most infamous Antarctic Expedition? Scientist and explorer George Murray Levick makes discoveries…
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The Lion Queen: The Dangerous World of Big Cat Taming
June 15, 2026 · 37 minNellie Chapman has an extraordinary way of drawing a crowd. Born into the strange and spectacular world of 19th Century travelling menageries, she rises to fame as one of Britain's most celebrated lion tamers. Performing inside the cage…
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'Iceberg Right Ahead!' A Titanic Lookout's Story
May 12, 2026 · 35 min(Content warning: please be aware this episode includes discussion of suicide). It's 1140pm in the North Atlantic Ocean, April 14 1912, when Titanic lookout Fred Fleet first glimpses a hulking great mass of ice looming out of the darkness…
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Ireland’s Wolf Hunters
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Dartmoor’s Demon Dogs
February 27, 2026 · 29 minIt’s 1901. Writer Arthur Conan Doyle is on holiday when he first hears whispers of a chilling local legend - spectral hounds said to tear across the wilds of Dartmoor under cover of darkness. A tale of an evil squire. A cursed family. And…
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Introducing Beastly History
February 22, 2026 · 1 minWelcome to Beastly History – the podcast where you’ll hear the most thrilling tales of people and the wild. Perilous polar expeditions. Unbelievable survival stories. The true origins of animal myths and legends. And natural history’s…