Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood
Who Did What Now With 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!
215. Eilean Mor - Disappearance of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers
On the 26th December 1900, the relief boat Hesperes arrived at teh shore of Eilean Mor, expecting the keepers to meet them as usual, but no-on was there. Three men disappeared from a Scottish lighthouse and no-one knows what happened. This is the Flannan Isles mystery. Hosted by Katie Charlwood…
1:06:39Explicit
214. Emanuela Orlandi - The Vatican Girl
15 year old Emanuela Orlandi went to a music lesson in Rome, on one of the hottest days of the Summer, 1983. She is still to this day the only Vatican citizen to go missing, and this teenager's disappearance is one of the most baffling cases in Italian criminal history. As if ripped out of teh page…
1:26:50Explicit
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 Charlwo…
1:08:47Explicit
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 est…
1:22:24Explicit
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 K…
1:09:56Explicit
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 …
1:05:55Explicit
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 episod…
1:15:00Explicit
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 …
32:28Explicit
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 T…
1:21:59Explicit
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 Ch…
1:15:24Explicit