Cows, Fraud and Dirty Pyjamas
Crime has been with us from the dawn of time. Some forms; fraud, murder, talking incessantly about your kids, are ancient attacks on the fabric of s...
Songs From The Howling Sea
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Songs From The Howling Sea is a podcast that presents short historical tales taken from the life of London. Each episode's story is accompanied with a song inspired by the tale, written and performed by the author R.M Anderson.
Mudbutter and Dirty Fingernails - London's Toshers
Many of us today may complain about having a crap job. The likelihood of that description being literal however, is highly unlikely. Working life on ...
Gameboys & Irish Sideburns - Dr. Barnardo in the East End
Life could be pretty grim for children on the streets of Victorian London. Flogging, imprisonment, slavery and perhaps expulsion to a colony can almos...
Infanticide & Slappy Bonita - London's Gin Epidemic
Songs inspired by real life London stories. This episode, Infanticide & Slappy Bonita In the 18th century everybody hated the French because, well the...
Barflies, Bankrupts And The Open Seas - London's Press Gangs
Songs inspired by real life London stories. This episode, Barflies, Bankrupts And The Open Seas. By the mid 1800's half of Britain's Royal Navy was co...
Stepney, Toffees & Extermination - Stalin in London's East End
This episode, Stepney, Toffees & Extermination. At the turn of the century in Stepney, East London there lived a boy named Arthur Bacon. Aurthur used...
Murder and the Medical Profession - Graverobbers
In this episode of Songs From The Howling Sea, we hear the story of the Resurrection Men. By the 1800's the medical world was in crisis. A reduction i...
Holly and a Good Firm Thrashing
It seems that everywhere, holly is synonymous with peace, love and Christmas cheer. Everywhere that is except London's Old East End where for some, it...
First Dates, Tramps and Chlamydia
Whilst I'm sure you, the listener, have plenty of your own first date horror stories, we have to spare a thought for their those poor souls, the girls...
Staple Removers and a Rotting Corpse - Suicide Burials
The daily grind of a 9-to-5 job can easily disappear into a sludge of mind numbing tasks and brain-dead monotony. But every now and again this life se...