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Ep 200 - Season 4 Finale Apr 21, 2024

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Ep 200 is here! To mark the end of season 4, Nick and Sinead share their highlights from the last 2 seasons and read listeners' thoughts on the funniest moments, scariest cases, silliest criminals and the greatest poison of them all.

The secret ingredient is...everything!

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this episode and for supporting us for 4 whole seasons. See you next month for S5!

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Ep 199 - The Great Fire of London Apr 12, 2024

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Ep 199 is loose, and we have a big one for you - we're talking about all the crimes and misdemeanors that occurred during The Great Fire of London!

Who or what started the fire? How much of what we know of the blaze is true? And what cheese would you save in a disaster?

The secret ingredient is...a biscuit!

Sources this week include The Museum of London, Royal Museums Greenwich, History.co.uk, Britannica, Metro News, The Independent, BBC Future, The Monument.org, London Fire Brigade, Oxbowbooks, Smithsonian Magazine, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood, 1666: Plague War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal

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Ep 198 - The Legend of Blackbeard Apr 05, 2024

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Ep 198 is loose! And it’s another swashbuckling tale with possibly the most fearsome pirate of them all…Blackbeard!

Who was Edward Teach? How long was his reign on the high seas? And what ARE sea-going folk called?

The secret ingredient is…cannon!

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Ep 197 - Sir Isaac Newton & The Cunning Counterfeiter Mar 29, 2024

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Ep 197 is loose and this week we have a historic battle of the minds and money in the mad cap tale of William Chaloner.

Who was this cocky young criminal? Why did he get under Isaac Newton's wig? And what do your watches come with?

The secret ingredient is... The Royal Mint!

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Sources this week include Thomas Levenson's Newton And The Counterfeiter, Oxford University's Newton & The Mint and Newton Project, Medium, Explore The Archive, The Royal Mint, Coins & History Foundation.

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Ep 196 - Reverend Hinshaw, The Blood-Soaked Preacher Mar 22, 2024

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Ep 196 is loose and we have a juicy crime story from a small town Indiana, where a preacher's home lies in ruin after a mystery attack.

What happened to William Hinsaw's wife? Who was Miss F? And is there a sexier detective than the one we encountered this week?

The secret ingredient is...a pistol!

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Expert Witness: Tonya Mitchell & The Arsenic Eater's Wife Mar 18, 2024

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How do you turn true crime into compelling fiction?

In this installment of Expert Witness Sinead speaks to Tonya Mitchell, author of The Arsenic Eaters Wife, a new gothic crime novel inspired by the famous story of Florence Maybrick. In Liverpool in 1889, Constance Sullivan stands accused of poisoning her husband, but William was no innocent victim and a web of deception envelopes their home and the people closest to them. Gloriously gothic and alarmingly good!

The Arsenic Eater's Wife is available now in bookshops and online: https://amzn.to/3IE6xvV

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Ep 195 - The Biggadike Plot & Josephine's Dying Daddy Mar 15, 2024

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Ep 195 is loose! And we have two good old fasioned poisoning cases for you to devour, both featuring our good friend rat poison.

What happened in the Biggadike household? Why did Josephine Bouvier want her daddy dead? And what colour do you like your rodents?

The secret ingredient is...rats!!

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Sources this week include Linda Stratmann's The Secret Poisoner, Capital Punishment, Murder UK and The Boston Guardian.

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Ep 194 - The Two Lives of William Brodie Mar 08, 2024

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Ep 194 is loose! And we're off to fair Scotland to tell the tale of Deacon Brodie, an upstanding member of Edinburgh society with a lot of secrets.

Who was this man of cabinets? What did he do after dark? And are shoemakers the best gang members?

The secret ingredient is...taxes!

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Sources this week include

www.edinburghexpert.com/blog/edinburghs-infamous-deacon-brodie-the-original-split-personality

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brodie

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Deacon-William-Brodie/

headstuff.org/culture/history/william-brodie-the-man-with-two-lives/

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Ep 193 - Josie Mansfield & The Scandal of New York Mar 01, 2024

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Ep 193 is loose and we're off to Manhattan to tell the tale of the delicious Josie Mansfield, whose beauty drove men to kill...

Who was Josie? How did she end up as one of the most lavish ladies of New York? And what would YOUR price be to marry for money?

The secret ingredient is...New York City!

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Sources include Village Preservation.org, Library of Congress Blog, Fascinate, The Life and Times of Col Jim Fisk by Robert McAlpine, The New York Times, Murder by Gaslight, and this 1872 pamphlet with a very long name: https://www.loc.gov/item/ca17002160/

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Expert Witness: Tim Cloke & The Death of Charles II Feb 27, 2024

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When you try to keep a King alive, could you be killing him with kindness?

In this installment of Expert Witness, we speak to historian and Patreon regular Tim Cloke about the gruesome death of Charles II. How did poison play apart in his demise and was his medicine a cocktail in the making???

This episode was originally recorded in August 2020 for Patreon, and the sound quality is a little different due to remote recording so please excuse minor glitches.

About Expert Witness: In these bonus episodes we interview different experts from a variety of backgrounds about cases on our show and about the world of true crime, Victorians, literature, and poison.

Get cocktails and historic true crime tales every week with The Poisoners' Cabinet

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