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Dark Histories from the Secret University.

This podcast slithers, oozes, writhes and flickers with all things dark, forbidden, strange and tabooed. It also tries to offer something very new. For over 15 years I lectured at the universities of Cardiff and Durham. It was a great great life. I got paid to write and to think. I got paid to share these passions with some brilliant and unforgettable students. Unfortunately, students now have to pay staggering amounts of money for that privilege. Welcome, then, to the Secret University. Its ideas,

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00:28:50

The Forgotten History of the Great Unwashed. Part One.

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/12/01

My ongoing History of Disgust spans filthy kings, queens, saints and dukes; bathing, toilets, lunacy, eccentrics, hermits, smoking, fat, gender, exercise, ecology and the internet. One of the most fascinating chapters for me was the visceral class war of the 19th century, in Britain and America. Every time the working classes demanded reform or the vote, the right wing press shot at them the phrase 'the Great Unwashed'. To see how this was patented in England as a powerful form of political

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00:26:45

Seven Great Cats from History.

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/29

After yesterday's Furry Feature on Singing Mice, a space here for their old enemy, the cat. Seven great cats from history, from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Stories of great love and maternal devotion jostle here with some very dark mysteries of cat travel. How do they find their way home perhaps hundreds of miles? And still more mysterious, how do they find their owners in new homes, in places the cats have never seen?

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00:29:46

Singing Mice: Furry Melodies from Queen Victoria to...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/28

Yes: mice really do sing. Scientists have recently argued that males in particular sing to attract females. But singing mice were popular stars long before science took them seriously. In 1843 one was summoned to Buckingham Palace to sing for Queen Victoria's children. Around 1871 a New England minister actually got two mouse songs scored on paper. And come 1937 radio listeners could hear an English and a Welsh mouse singing a duet, competing against America and Canada in the first ever

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00:28:14

Fairy changelings. Magic, terror and childhood in...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/24

This episode discusses the great and strange adventure of researching and writing Fairies: A Dangerous History. It then looks in detail at the seemingly incredible but widespread belief that babies and children really were 'stolen by the fairies.' Be advised: this discussion necessarily contains distressing material. This really did happen. We should, however, recognise that those seemingly deluded and superstitious people would probably be astonished to learn that, right now, right here in Britain,

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00:02:13

Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and the Invention of...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/22

An introduction to one of the most amazing but least talked about events in British history: the invention of theatre. This reinvented reality and human character; and sparked one of the greatest moral panics of all time, as Puritans raged against the new permanent playhouses in London. And right at the start here, one of the most terrifying dramas ever staged exploded upon a traumatised public. Marlowe's Dr Faustus was The Exorcist of its day, and worse. What role did the soul and the biology of

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00:20:05

Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and the Invention of...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/22

An introduction to one of the most amazing but least talked about events in British history: the invention of theatre. This reinvented reality and human character; and sparked one of the greatest moral panics of all time, as Puritans raged against the new permanent playhouses in London. And right at the start here, one of the most terrifying dramas ever staged exploded upon a traumatised public. Marlowe's Dr Faustus was The Exorcist of its day, and worse. What role did the soul and the biology of

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00:02:08

Lost Leaves from the Secret Library.

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/15

Can you help liberate the author from his prison in the Book Tower? He needs your assistance to return these and many more volumes to the Secret Library: a rare labyrinth of shadowed stories, of twisting tales, and pungent pages, stretching deep beneath the Secret University. The Secret Library will take you into a space so strange, so dark, so whimsical and haunted that the author sometimes wishes even he could escape it. But it is his own head, and his own Secret History of past books, past

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00:27:31

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/15

Welcome to the Secret University. This podcast will be offering you echoing libraries and shady cloisters of forbidden histories: from my books, published and unpublished, and from across this world and the next. Today we begin with my most notorious book, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires, on the secret history of white Christian cannibalism. Join me on the frozen Thames in London, 1684, for a journey you will never forget.

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00:20:05

We Need to Talk About Ghosts: an Introduction to my...

Dark Histories from the Secret University. ·

2022/11/14

I'm Richard Sugg, author of 13 books and former Lecturer at Durham University. I'm currently writing a new book, We Need to Talk About Ghosts. This is inspired by two things. One is my own extraordinary journey from the death of my father in 1989, to that of my mother in 2021. When my father died very suddenly at age 62 I was just 19. Nothing could convince me that he had not simply gone, forever. But in 2013, purely by chance, I stumbled on poltergeists whilst researching vampire folklore. Now,

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