Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals is a true crime podcast unlike any other; because every word of it was written nearly 300 years ago.
Each week, we read aloud one chapter from a remarkable book first published in London in 1735: a sprawling collection of murderers, highwaymen, coiners, housebreakers, pirates and worse, recorded in vivid and unsparing detail.
The crimes are real. The voices are authentic. And the world they reveal, brutal, strange, and surprisingly familiar, has been waiting three centuries to be heard again. True crime did not begin with podcasts. It began here by the burning light of a candle.
Episodes
5 episodes
Episode 004: Robert Perkins: The Disinherited Baker Turned Thief
Robert Perkins grows up in Hertfordshire as the son of a prosperous innkeeper, but prosperity does not protect him. After his mother dies and his father remarries, the boy is cast out of his own home; stripped of affection, stripped of inherita...
Episode 003: William Barton: The Highwayman Who Could Not Stay Still
William Barton is born with restlessness in his blood. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, his father abandons him as a child, fleeing to Jamaica with a concubine and a hold full of goods; the boy grows up in his grandfather's e...
Episode 002: John Trippuck: The Golden Tinman's Highway Robberies
They call him the Golden Tinman; a man who robs alone and in company, whose scarred body carries the evidence of musket balls extracted from his flesh, and whose notoriety across the roads of early Georgian England is already the stuff of grim ...
Episode 000: Introduction to The Lives Of the Most Remarkable Criminals
This is not a podcast about true crime. It is true crime — written in 1735 and read aloud for the first time in nearly three centuries.Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals was first published in 1735, covering murderers, highwaymen, h...
Episode 001: Jane Griffin: The Mistress Who Turned a Knife on Her Maid
Jane Griffin is a woman of sharp wit, good reputation and a violent temper she cannot govern. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, she keeps a busy inn in Smithfield with her husband, drawing customers with her charm and driving ...