Ghosts
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
10/25/22
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How long have people believed in ghosts?
Eleanor Janega is back Betwixt the Sheets with Kate to tell us why you should always stand up to ghosts and why you might be visited by a woman with frogs sucking on her body.
From improper burials to resentful visitors, they delve into people’s beliefs in ghosts and how they have changed through history.
*WARNING there are naughty words and adult topics in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Sophie Gee.
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The Grisly Deaths of Kings & Queens
October 21, 2022
•47m
Did Henry VIII really have syphilis? Who died from a red hot poker up the bum? And which king was taken down by a school of fish?
To learn about the often gruesome ways that our royals have met their doom, Kate gets Betwixt the Sheets with Suzie Edge, TikTok historian and author of ‘Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths’.
*WARNING there are naughty words and gory discussions of death in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Thomas Ntinas.
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Seances
October 28, 2022
•44m
Everybody hold hands! We're going for a seance!
How long have we've been trying to talk to dead people for? And have we ever actually been speaking to the dead or just to somebody’s clicky toe joints?
In today's episode Kate is joined by Lisa Morton, author of 'Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances', to talk about the long history of spiritualism, its believers and its fraudsters!
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Thomas Ntinas.
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