Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood
Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood
Playlist by Who Did What Now With Katie CharlwoodWhoever 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 histo…Follow the podcast:
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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 est…
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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 K…
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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 episod…
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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 T…
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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 Ch…
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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 HIt…
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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, studi…
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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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