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On this week's edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From Tucson to Melbourne to Vancouver, workers are rising up—and their stories are being told. We start with Words and Work, where Bookmans employees in Arizona walk off the job, demanding movement at the bargaining table. “If they're not going to make a motion,” one worker says, “we're going to make a motion.” On Working People, student hunger strikers at the University of Oregon connect their campus protest to the starvation crisis in Gaza, calling it not only physical destruction—but cultural erasure. Down under, Stick Together brings us to a pastry factory in Melbourne, where bakery workers making muffins, donuts, and Australia's famous Woolworths mud cakes go on strike for fair pay—and win a seat at the table through collective action. From Roswell Hub, we explore what it means when your workplace relocates—sometimes a blessing, sometimes a life-altering burden—and what unions can do to protect workers when buildings close or operations shift. And on On the Line, we travel back to WWII-era Vancouver, where women known as “conductor-ettes” defied gender roles—and unruly passengers—to keep the streetcars running while the men were at war. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkingPod @stick__together @BC_LHC Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Barbecues and base building at Amazon, ICE agents confronted in Newark, redefining plumbing with kids, the magic of assimilation, and why turning doctors into data entry clerks is bad for us all. Plus, a roundup of even more labor shows you should know. It's a jam-packed episode with clips from Labor Notes, My Labor Radio, Third and Fairfax, The Labor Heritage Power Hour, and more. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @LaborNotes @stucknation @mgevaart @WGAWest @1932Teamsters @LaborHeritage1#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Valley Labor Report asks: What does the new Pope mean for labor? Catholic TikToker Union Dad breaks it down. America's Workforce talks air safety with PASS President David Spero. Heartland Labor Forum hears from frontline Social Security workers. The Boiling Point explains workers' comp with attorney George Mueller. Stick Together explores the 4-day workweek in Australia. LaborStart Canada covers Alberta's new Solidarity Pact. America Works meets a small-town pharmacist who treats circus elephants. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @LaborReporters @AWFUnionPodcast @Heartland_Labor @stick__together @labourstart @librarycongress #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Working Voices, UTLA fights to protect immigrant students; from On the Line, CTU's Stacy Davis Gates marks May Day with a contract that builds working-class power; The Manufacturing Report exposes the hidden costs of cheap factory TikToks; The Labor & Energy Show goes inside Boilermakers Local 13; Reinventing Solidarity traces Jaz Brisack's journey from atheist autodidact to salting strategist; and Solidarity Works honors cross-border unity with Mexico's Los Mineros. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @KeepitMadeinUSA @CunySLU @steelworkers#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
This Week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From San Francisco to South Africa, this week's show brings you powerful stories of labor resistance, solidarity, and organizing across borders. WorkWeek Radio takes us to a San Francisco ICE rally demanding the release of detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, then dives into the fight for Medicare and Medicaid with Dr. Ana Manilow ahead of a national day of action for single payer on May 31. Work Stoppage rounds up headlines from workers organizing at PetSmart, Kroger, the Port of Casablanca and more, with a deep dive into the misclassification crisis in construction and the continuing contract battle at Starbucks. On Union Talk, AFT President Randi Weingarten joins three professors and union leaders to expose Trump's assault on higher ed and what it means for academic freedom and student rights. BCTGM Voices highlights union-made sugar from beets, with two local union presidents in Idaho sharing what union contracts mean to their work and their families. Tales from the Reuther Library features Dr. Justine Modica on the Seattle-based Worthy Wages childcare movement, where SEIU workers organized for equity in early childhood education. And in Buwa Basebetsi, Moss Manganyi remembers the massive May Day strike of 1986 in apartheid-era South Africa—a turning point for worker power. Plus, on Shows You Should Know, Harold Phillips brings us a special spotlight on building trades podcasts—featuring new voices from the United Association, Laborers' International Union, and more—plus stories from firefighters and educators pushing back on anti-worker policies. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @labormedianow @WorkStoppagePod @aftunion @BCTGM @ReutherLibrary #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: This week's episode takes us from South Africa to California, Wisconsin to the Pilbara — with a few sharp words about Trump along the way. Work Stoppage: The fight against illegal deportations and labor's role in defending our communities from unjust immigration policies. Power at Work: How recent administrative policies are hitting hospitality workers in California — and how unions are pushing back. Buwa Basebetsi Updates: In South Africa, workers at East Rand's M&N Waste stand up against poor treatment and demand better conditions. We Rise Fighting: UAW Local 291 is on strike in Oshkosh, Wisconsin — we bring you voices from the picket line. Classes of Mail: Ever wonder how scanners keep the postal system running? Alan breaks it down in a surprisingly fascinating look behind the scenes. Stick Together: Author Alexis Vassiley discusses Striking Ore, his powerful new book on the rise and fall of union power in Australia's Pilbara region.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Notes Podcast: How TSA Agents and Federal Workers are fighting a hostile administration. Heartland Labor Forum: Cuts to Haskell Indian Nation's University in Lawrence. My Labor Radio: Discussion with Eric Blanc on his new book We Are The Union. The Flight Deck: Women's history month: two captains discuss their inspiring stories. Economics for the People: The political economy of the Middle East. The SAG-AFTRA Podcast: Jane Fonda discusses her career with Fran Drescher. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @LaborNotes @Heartland_Labor @mgevaart @UnitedPilots @sagaftra#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the US Postal Service is under the most existential attack in it's history; Everything U$P$ assesses the situation. What's behind Europe's labor shortages? We'll find out, on the ETUI Podcast. From brand-new Network member Buwa Basebetsi Updates; migrant workers say enough is enough. Machinists Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes talks about Latinas in the labor movement on El Cafecito del Día. AAUP Presents talks with Stephanie Hall about how academic freedom is on the line. And, in our final segment, the Labor Jawn podcast talks with Blair Kelley, author of Black Folk. PLUS: Harold's Shows You Should Know. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @ETUI_org @LCLAA @labor80132 #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Stewart Acuff discusses his new book of poetry Love Is Solidarity in Action, on the Heartland Labor Forum radio show; then, Work Week Radio takes us to a protest to shut down Google's Waymo taxis; on Work Stoppage, grad workers negotiate at Brown University; CUPE's Mark Hancock talks about the "Montreal Declaration" on LabourStart; the scallywags discuss an accident at Crinum on the Concrete Gang podcast; and in our final segment, Alex Lin talks about her new play, American Steel on the Labor Heritage Power Hour. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @Heartland_Labor @labormedianow @WorkStoppagePod @labourstart @cfmeu_cg @LaborHeritage1#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: from the inaugural episode of The Labor Notes Podcast, which just launched yesterday: When Nippon sought to acquire U.S. Steel in a $15 billion acquisition last year, the companies went to great lengths to convince U.S. Steel workers that the deal would benefit them too (and not just line executives' pockets). Hear why the workers didn't buy it. Then, from the 3rd & Fairfax podcast, a report on the SAG-AFTRA video game strike. Justice for Phil, on the Speaking of Work podcast On The Dig podcast, TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. They say Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone's minds, including their own. Now they're seizing the state. The Workers Beat wonders, Is this the end of capitalism? And the UFCW 3000 Union Podcast is back, with a report on working with rank and file members in contract bargaining. In our final segment, On The Line: Stories of BC Workers remembers union solidarity against apartheid in South Africa. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @labornotes @BC_LHC @UFCW_3000 @WGAWest @KNON893FM thedigradio#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Teachers talk about the impact education cuts will have on kids, on the Union Talk podcast…Then, from Labor Radio on WORT, teachers and advocates rally in Madison…Organizing in Utah and Colorado's ski communities; the Labor Exchange reports…Meet the union reps keeping front line union members safe, on The SAG-AFTRA Podcast…On the Heartland Labor Forum, labor historian Julie Greene discusses who built the Panama Canal…And in our final segment, from LabourStart radio, an interview with Liza Merliak, exiled trade unionist from Belarus. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @aftunion @aflbobby @sagaftra @Heartland_Labor @labourstart#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Thomas Love Peacock didn't want to write novels, at least not in the form they had taken in the first half of the 19th century. In Crotchet Castle he rejects the expectation that novelists should reveal the interiority of their characters, instead favouring the testing of opinions and ideas. His ‘novel of talk', published in 1831, appears largely like a playscript in which disparate characters assemble for a house party next to the Thames before heading up the river to Wales. Their debates cover, among other things, the Captain Swing riots of 1830, the mass dissemination of knowledge, the emerging philosophy of utilitarianism and the relative merits of medieval and contemporary values.In this extended extract from 'Novel Approaches', a Close Readings series from the LRB, Clare Bucknell is joined by Freya Johnston and Thomas Keymer to discuss where the book came from and its use of ‘sociable argument' to offer up-to-date commentary on the economic and political turmoil of its time.To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrnaIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsnaSponsored links: Use the code ‘LRB' to get £150 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrbSee A Knock on the Roof at the Royal Court Theatre: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/a-knock-on-the-roof/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thomas Love Peacock didn't want to write novels, at least not in the form they had taken in the first half of the 19th century. In Crotchet Castle he rejects the expectation that novelists should reveal the interiority of their characters, instead favouring the testing of opinions and ideas. His ‘novel of talk', published in 1831, appears largely like a playscript in which disparate characters assemble for a house party next to the Thames before heading up the river to Wales. Their debates cover, among other things, the Captain Swing riots of 1830, the mass dissemination of knowledge, the emerging philosophy of utilitarianism and the relative merits of medieval and contemporary values. In this episode Clare is joined by Freya Johnston and Thomas Keymer to discuss where the book came from and its use of ‘sociable argument' to offer up-to-date commentary on the economic and political turmoil of its time.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrnaIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsnaRead more in the LRB:Thomas Keymer on Peacockhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n03/thomas-keymer/bring-some-madeiraPaul Foot: The not-so-great Reform Acthttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n09/paul-foot/shoy-hoys Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald, on the Power at Work podcast, talks about the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration and NTEU's strategies in defending its members; Tesla Fremont Assembly worker Branton Philipps, after working for years at the plant -- which has over 20,000 workers -- talked with Work Week Radio about why he quit in protest this week after opposing the union busting, racism and health and safety dangers at the plant, caused by owner Elon Musk; On Fire Up: Plumbers, from Melbourne, Australia, the fellas talk about the summer, when the temps soar; Rasean Clayton, an AFSCME member who heads up the A. Philip Randolph Institute's Arizona chapter, talks about the work of the Institute and other issues in labor on Words and Work; In a special LIVE Art and Labor show OK talks with Liz Pelly about the state of DIY and our extractive relationship with big tech. PLUS: Harold's Shows You Should Know. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @PowerAtWorkBlog @labormedianow @3CR @ArtandLaborPod #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the NEA's School Me podcast, Mary Ellen goes shopping with one Florida educator to expose the reality of what it means to live on a teacher's salary; On CUPE Cast, Moe and Brianna sit down with Brandon Hayes from CUPE Local 4948 and Nas Yadollahi from CUPE Local 79 to discuss their bargaining process as they return to the bargaining table with their employer; REEL Green Lead at Creative BC Justin Barnes discusses the organization's efforts to move the needle when it comes to sustainable motion picture production in British Columbia on Apple Box Talks; Hannah Srajer talks with Daniel about how to build tenant unions by applying labor organizing models on The Dig; Jacob and Adam talk with Patricia Todd with Jobs to Move America about getting a local hire ordinance passed in Birmingham and react to Trump's latest attacks on federal workers on The Valley Labor Report; And on LabourStart, Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage discuss their new book 'Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics'. PLUS: Harold's Shows You Should Know! Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @NEAToday @CUPEOntario @iatse891 @thedigradio @LaborReporters @labourstart#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On the Union or Bust podcast, hosts Chris and Juan talk with Steve Gutierrez, National Business Representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, about the LA fires, what his members go through, and what they are fighting for nationally; on The Manufacturing Report, Scott Paul and Scott Boos give you their take on the “America First” trade memo President Trump issued on January 20, and its implications for U.S. manufacturing; Pawel Gmyrek and Hernan Winkler explore the ways generative AI is affecting different regions of the world, particularly in Latin America, on The Future of Work podcast; Nick Richardson discusses the challenges FedEx pilots are facing, the role of the Professional Standards Committee in providing support and resources, and the formation of FedEX ALPA's Pilot Media Group on the Fly By Night podcast; the Say Watt podcast introduces us to Electrical Workers Without Borders North America and looks at its mission to create a world where the benefits of electricity are available to everyone; The Last Showgirl screenwriter Kate Gersten talks about drawing from her own experience of Las Vegas nightlife, her transition from writing for television to film, and more on 3rd & Fairfax. PLUS: Harold's Shows You Should Know! Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @KeepitMadeinUSA @ilo @FedExPilots @WGAWest#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Rick Smith Show takes a look at dealing with the Trump administration; Jon Milton wonders Is the US a fascist country? on RadioLabour; On the Real News Network Podcast. Mehdi Hasan and Francesca Fiorentina on Trump's political strategy; Work Week Radio investigates the threats of AI; The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights on Tales from the Reuther Library; And in our final segment, we find out how airline workers cope with extreme cold, on Delta Workers Unite. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @RickSmithShow @radiolabour @labormedianow @ReutherLibrary#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
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ZOË WANAMAKER is an actress with a multitude of Film, TV, and Theatre credits to her name. Theatre: Zoë is a 2-time Olivier Award winner, and 9-time nominee, for her work on the West End including: Once in a Lifetime (Olivier Award - Best Actress in a Revival), The Time of Your Life, Twelfth Night, Mother Courage and her Children, Othello, The Crucible, Electra (Olivier Award – Best Actress), Boston Marriage. She has also received 4 Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations for her work on Broadway in Piaf, Loot, Electra, and Awake and Sing! (won a special Drama Desk award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance). Additional West End credits include: The Devil's Disciple, Ivanov, Wild Oats; or, The Strolling Gentleman, The Taming of the Shrew, Captain Swing, Piaf, Mrs. Klein, Dead Funny, The Glass Menagerie, All My Sons, All On Her Own and Harlequinade, The Birthday Party, Constellations. She has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as other regional productions including: Cabaret, Much Ado About Nothing, Kiss Me Kate, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Crucible, The Last Yankee, The Old Neighbourhood, His Girl Friday, The Rose Tattoo, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cherry Orchard, Stevie, Elegy, and Two Ladies. TV: Zoë is most known for her British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award nominated work on “Love Hurts” (Tessa Piggot) and “Prime Suspect” (Moyra Henson), in addition to other television work on “My Family” (Susan Harper), “Doctor Who” (Cassandra), “Brittania” (Queen Antedia), and “Shadow and Bone” (Baghra). Other TV credits include: “Edge of Darkness,” “Paradise Postponed,” “Once in a Life Time,” “Agatha Christie's Poirot” (Ariadne Oliver), and “Mr. Selfridge,” Film: Zoë received a BAFTA nomination for her role as Ada Leverson in Wilde. She has also starred in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Madame Hooch), Five Children and It (Martha), It's a Wonderful Afterlife (Mrs. Goldman), and My Week with Marilyn (Paula Strasberg). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Here we wrap up our long discussion of prison ships and prison hulks in the British Empire. Listen to Parts 1 and 2 if you haven't already! All three parts have now been unlocked for everyone on the main podcast feed. Sources:Forbes, Thomas R. "Coroners' Inquisitions on the Deaths of Prisoners in the Hulks at Portsmouth, England, in 1817 - 1827." Journal of the History of Medicine, July 1978, pp. 356 - 365Foxhall, Katherine. "From Convicts to Colonists: The Health of Prisoners and the Voyage to Australia, 1823 - 1853." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vo. 39, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 1 - 19Hobsbawm, E.J. and George Rudé. Captain Swing. Phoenix Press, 2001.James, Jeff. "'Raising Sand, Soil and Gravel' - Pardon Refusers On-Board Prison Hulks (1776 - 1815)." Family & Community History, vol. 20/1, April 2017Townsend, Norma and David Kent. "The Men of the Eleanor, 1831: A Case Study of the Hulks and Voyage to New South Wales." The Great Circle, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119Support the show
How goes mates. It's TSP back a new banger. And this week we talk to the fantastic actress Charlene McKenna. You might know Charlene from her role as RA leader Captain Swing in the last series of Peaky Blinders, or from her roles in Bloodlines, Ripper Street or Raw. Charlene hails from Monaghan, up in Ulster. Her family had a mushroom farm where Charlene worked before switching professions to become publicans. She and Craig talk about first auditions, natural wines, mindfully controlling your ailments, medicinal booze and loads more. It's a brilliant and funny episode which you'll love. This is series ten, episode nine of the Two Shot Podcast with Charlene McKenna. If you've enjoyed listening to this episode then please click through to patreon.com/twoshotpod to make a donation to the running costs of the show. You'll get bonus podcast audio, pictures, videos and some shiny new TSP merch in return. Nice one. Get in touch... Facebook - search 'Two Shot Podcast' Twitter - @twoshotpod Instagram - @twoshotpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tommy, still a Labour MP, returns to England and is informed Ruby is recovering. He has a seizure in the bathroom and Lizzie urges him to see a doctor, but he refuses. After Jack Nelson expresses interest to meet the fascists, Tommy sees an opportunity in an alliance with Captain Swing. He visits Alfie and announces the death of his uncle on the Cotton Club at the hands of Jack Nelson's gang. After a tense meeting with Mosley and his mistress Diana Mitford, Tommy meets Jack Nelson and agrees to feed information about England's political goings to his gang in exchange for opium. Tommy is informed that Ruby is sick again and decides to contact Esme.Peaky Blinders by Story Archives is brought to you by the Soapbox Podcast Network. Hosts and fellow 'Peaky' fans, Mario Busto and Zachary Newton bring you entertaining commentary and analysis of each episode, so that you can get caught up on all of the action, drama, and excitement of the show.Find Story Archives online:InstagramPodcast Network
Following Tommy’s failed suicide attempt, he receives a call from Captain Swing who takes credit for foiling Mosley’s attempted assassination. She returns the bodies of Polly, Aberama and Barney, who were killed during the assassination attempt. The entire Shelby family gather for Polly’s funeral with Michael swearing revenge on Tommy for his role in Polly’s death. In 1933, four years later, Tommy, now sober, sets up a meeting with an estranged Michael and business associates of Jack Nelson, a south Boston gang leader. Meanwhile, back in Small Heath, Arthur's drug addiction continues to spiral following Polly’s death. Later, Tommy is phoned by Lizzie who announces she, Charles and their daughter Ruby cannot travel to Canada due to Ruby’s sudden illness. Believing her sickness is a message and gypsy related, Tommy decides to return to England. This episode was dedicated to Helen McCrory, and rather than music, the end credits comprised the song of a male blackbird.Peaky Blinders by Story Archives is brought to you by the Soapbox Podcast Network. Hosts and fellow 'Peaky' fans, Mario Busto and Zachary Newton bring you entertaining commentary and analysis of each episode, so that you can get caught up on all of the action, drama, and excitement of the show.Find Story Archives online:InstagramPodcast Network
As the Shelby family mourns, Tommy enacts revenge as he murders the family of the woman who cursed Ruby. Distraught in grief, Tommy ignores letters from his personal doctor as his relationship with Lizzie strains even further. Ada is targeted by Nazis and Arthur's addiction continues to spiral. The meeting between Tommy, Mosley, Diana, Jack Nelson and Captain Swing takes place: Jack Nelson agrees to let Tommy trade opium in Boston as he gains information from Mosley about the political future of England and agrees with Captain Swing that the Irish working class can be turned. Tommy finally meets with his doctor. The episode ends with Tommy talking to Polly asking her to give him the time he needs to do what he must do.Peaky Blinders by Story Archives is brought to you by the Soapbox Podcast Network. Hosts and fellow 'Peaky' fans, Mario Busto and Zachary Newton bring you entertaining commentary and analysis of each episode, so that you can get caught up on all of the action, drama, and excitement of the show.Find Story Archives online:InstagramPodcast Network
Lizzie finally leaves Tommy after his affair with Diana, taking Charles with her. Tommy sets the rest of the Peaky Blinders to dismantle his house, and gives false information to the informant Billy to lure the IRA into a trap. Captain Swing and other IRA assassins go to the Garrison pub to kill Arthur. On Miquelon Island, Tommy meets Michael, who has been released from prison. Tommy has a vision of Ruby, and his personal doctor pictured with Mosley and Diana on their wedding day in a partially-burnt newspaper, Tommy realizes he had been given a false diagnosis of inoperable tuberculoma.Peaky Blinders by Story Archives is brought to you by the Soapbox Podcast Network. Hosts and fellow 'Peaky' fans, Mario Busto and Zachary Newton bring you entertaining commentary and analysis of each episode, so that you can get caught up on all of the action, drama, and excitement of the show.Find Story Archives online:InstagramPodcast Network
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/folkore
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. The Cuckoo Cage (CommaPress, 2022), edited by Ra Page, is a unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks, these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies
Tommy wakes up and sees a scarecrow in his farmland dressed up as him. Confused and angry, he approaches the scarecrow where he finds a note and quickly discovers that he is standing in the midst of landmines. At his mansion, Tommy gets a call from IRA agent Captain Swing, who informs him that she has captured Michael from the men who supposedly want to kill Tommy and asks whether to spare him or kill him. At the Garrison pub, Arthur and Tommy warn Finn not to get involved with guns, and Tommy tells Arthur that he doesn't sleep because he dreams that someone wants his crown and that it might be Michael. Polly and Arthur go to the station to receive Michael, where he introduces Gina, his wife. Tommy and Ada meet with Oswald Mosley. Meanwhile, in a forest, the Billy Boys shoot Aberama in the shoulder and kill Bonnie after crucifying him.Peaky Blinders by Story Archives is brought to you by the Soapbox Podcast Network. Hosts and fellow 'Peaky' fans, Mario Busto and Zachary Newton bring you entertaining commentary and analysis of each episode, so that you can get caught up on all of the action, drama, and excitement of the show.Find Story Archives online:InstagramPodcast Network
Episode 76Torso Murders What do an ancient riverbed, Elliot Ness, and at least 12 headless torsos have in common? They are all involved in tonight's episode! Tonight we are diving into our first real foray into true crime. We discuss one of the nation's craziest unsolved serial murder cases ever. And the best part is… It takes place in our own backyard! Tonight we discuss the Kingsbury Run Torso Slayings, better known as the Cleveland Torso Murders. The Kingsbury Run area of Cleveland Ohio is actually built on an ancient riverbed that once fed into the Cuyahoga river, long before it caught on fire of course. This area is just south of downtown Cleveland and within the area known as the Flats. While the first body attributed to the Torso Killer was found in September 1934, there are questions as to when the killings actually started as the first mention of a headless body in The Run was in the Cleveland Leader on November 13,1905. A woman scavenging in the Case avenue dump for saleable scrap came across the headless body of a man who was shot in the chest. In early September Frank LaGossie was walking along the beach near his house cleaning up the beach and collecting driftwood when he saw something that didn't really look right sticking out of the sand. As he got closer La Gossie realised what he was seeing wear the lower half of a human torso. Severed at the waist, it was still attached to the thighs but missing it's lower legs. La Gossie ran to his friends house and called the police. It was determined that the body was that of a woman in her mid thirties, about five foot six and weighing 120 pounds. There was evidence that a chemical was used on the body and the coroner claimed the killer tried to use something like quicklime to destroy the body but used slaked lime instead which accidentally helped preserve the body. The body was not water logged so it was determined there Torso was not in the water that long. No other clues were found so police began looking through the missing persons files for women who may match the description they could come up with. Having read the reports of the murder, Joseph Hedjuk phone Cleveland police reporting that he had found human remains along the beach in North Perry, which is about 40 miles east of Cleveland, two weeks earlier. Hedjuk said he'd reported the find to lake county deputy Melvin Keener who determined that the remains were animals and convinced Hedjuk to bury the find on the beach. On September 7 extensive digging unearthed Hedjuks find, part of a shoulder blade,a partial spinal column and 16 vertebrae. All these pieces matched the Torso found by La Gossie and showed similar exposure to lime based chemical preservatives. The next day two brothers digging in the sand near the first torso discovery found a compatible collarbone and shoulder blade. Safety five days of sensational headlines, tons of worthless leads and clues, and tons of conjecture, the nameless Torso, dubbed Lady Of The Lake, residentially disappeared from the headlines. Her remains were buried in the Potter's Field section of Highland park cemetery on September 11 and Clevelanders seemingly just moved right on from the grisly discovery. And we've still yet to hear mention of Kingsbury Run! September 23, 1935 brings us the story of 16 year old James Wagner and 12 year old Peter Costumes. The two boys played that day among the waste and rubble of Kingsbury Run near E.49th and Praha Avenue. Kingsbury Run was a neglected area that was full of weeds, trash, and debris left by drifters and homeless people that dwelt in the area. Around 5 on the boys decided to have a race down a 60ft but known as jackass hill. James got to the bottom first, he asked something strange in the brush nearby. A minute later he was running back up the hill telling Peter that there was "a dead man with no head down there"! They ran to find an adult and called the police. When police arrived they found the headless emasculated corpse of a young white male. The christ was nude except for black socks. While searching the area, detectives soon found another corpse about thirty feet away. It was the headless and emasculated torso of an older man that had a strange orange reddish tinge and unlike the first corpse which was relatively fresh, this one was badly decomposed. They searched the area for more clues and found the severed genitals of both corpses and actually found the head of the first torso found. Their first corpse was eventually identified by fingerprints and Edward Adrassy. The second body has no fingerprints and was never identified. The reddish huge suggested that the body was exposed to some sort of preservatives similar to the first body found a year earlier, but that was not something investigators put together. Andrassy was well known to police as " a drunkard, marijuana user, pornography peddler, gambler, pimp, bellicose barroom brawler, bunko artist and all around snotty punk". He ran in tough circles around many undesirables, which meant there were possibly many people with motive. This includes a man who supposedly visited Andrassys house when he was away and told his parents that he would kill Adrassy if he didn't stop paying attention to the man's wife. Detectives drew the measure implications from the clues and bodys. First, the victims knew each other and the body of the unidentified victim was held until the bodies could be dumped together. Second, the bodies were drained of blood and washed before being dumped, there was no other explanation for the complete absence of blood around the bodies at the scene. Three, a park of motor oil found at the scene was most likely there to burn the bodies. The oil had traces of blood and hair in it. Also they suggest that the careful placement of the body suggests that the body's were not dumped hastily but placed carefully and purposefully. Some suggested that the castration was some sort of criminal ritual like a mafia gesture. Beyond this this police had nothing and soon Clevelanders began to forget about this horrific crime. One last thing about this crime: detective Orly May uttered something to his partner that would end up being somewhat prophetic, he told his partner " I've got a bad feeling about this one." 1936 rolled around and we find Elliot Ness fresh off his celebrated fight against the Capone crime syndicate. He was the newly appointed Director of Public Safety in Cleveland. On the night of January 25th into the morning of the 26th, several dogs were raising the alarm around the Hart Manufacturing Company. At one point a resident decided to do something about one of the barking dogs. As she entered an alert where the dog was she found the dogs straining at it's leash trying to get to a bushel basket that was laying against the back wall of the building. The resident looked into the woman walked back out and found a local butcher named Charles page and told him there were some hams in a basket in the alley. Page went to investigate believing this may be evidence that a butcher shop may have been robbed in the area. What he found was something completely different. He found body parts in the basket. More specifically an arm, two thighs, and the lower half of a female Torso. The body parts bite evidence of coal dust and coal lump imprints. They also found a burlap sack nearby with a pair of cotton underwear wrapped in newspaper in it. Also another sack was found nearby containing chicken feathers. The body was identified after an expert named George Koestle looked through more than 10,000 possible matching fingerprints to finally find a match to a Florence Polilo. She had been married at least twice and was divorced from her second husband Andrew Polilo in the late twenties. As with our last victims Ms. Polilo was no stranger to police. According to police she figured in a number of barroom brawler and vice activities. She was arrested for soliciting in 1930 and occupying tons for immoral purpose in 1931. She was also arrested for prostitution in Washington D.C. in 1934 and again in Cleveland in 1935 for illegally selling intoxicating beverages. She'd been reportedly going downhill fast in the time leading up to her death. The police find that she had many aquaintances but no one really knew her. They looked for a man she lived with when she moved back from D.C. who reportedly beat her. They also had reports she was in a barroom brawl with a black man in the night of her death. They sought men locked to her with amazing names such as Captain Swing and One Armed Willie, but nothing came off these queries. The police determined the body was place where it was found at around 2:30am which is when all the dogs were heard barking. Police surmised that a very sharp knife in the hands of an amateur was used. A couple weeks later, on February 7th the rest of Ms. Polilos relative were found… Minus the head. Detectives were quick to mention there was no connection between this and the Andrassys killings. We're going to kind of run through the rest of the victims here somewhat quickly for the sake of time. June 1936: Early one morning in Kingsbury Run, two young boys discovered the head of a white male wrapped in a pair of trousers close to the East 55th Street bridge. Police found the body of the twenty-some-year-old man the next day dumped in front of the Nickel Plate Railroad police building. Clean and drained of blood, the corpse was intact except for the head. Pierce again determined the death had been caused by decapitation. In spite of a fresh set of fingerprints and the presence of six distinctive tattoos on various parts of the body, police were never able to identify the victim. There was no evidence of drugs or alcohol in his system. And the contents of his stomach showed his last meal was baked beans and judging by the state of suggestion he was killed a day or two before the body was found. Day after three Torso was found the head was out on display the county morgue in hopes that someone could identify him. A plaster reproduction of the man’s head, along with a diagram of the kind and location of the tattoos, were made to display at the Great Lakes Exposition of 1936. More than one hundred thousand people saw the “Death Mask” and tattoo chart. The “Tattooed Man” was never identified. The original Death Mask, along with three others from the case are on display at the Cleveland Police Museum. This would be the murder that would spark the legend of the Cleveland Torso Murders and the hubby for The Mad Butcher Of Kingsbury Run. Police and experts still differed on opinions on the case including whether the first body was part of this whole messed and some even doubted whether Polilo was part of it. As Parents began telling their children to stay away from the Run, city editors started giving serious thought to a Cleveland Jack the Ripper! July 1936: A teenage girl came across the decapitated remains of a forty-year-old white male while walking through the woods near Clinton Road and Big Creek on the near west side. The victim had been dead about two months and his head, as well as a pile of bloody clothing, was found nearby. Judging by the enormous quantity of blood that had seeped into the ground, this man had apparently been killed where his body was found. He had no distinguishing marks. Although authorities didn't know it yet, this would be the only torso vision to turn up on the west side of Cleveland. Judging by the clothes going and other clues, police determined the victim to be a resident at a hobo camp in the Big Creek woods not far from the crime scene. Oddly enough Elliot Ness, still basking in the headlines he made for fighting police corruption and organized cringe remained silent on the subject. September 1936: A transient trips over the upper half of a man's torso while trying to hop a train at East 37th Street in Kingsbury Run. Police searched a nearby pool, which was nothing more than a big open sewer, and found the lower half of the torso and parts of both legs. Police sent a diver in to make the recovery. The number of onlookers that turned out to watch the grim spectacle was estimated at over six hundred, and the killer may well have been among them. Victim number six was in his late twenties and the cause of death, yet again, was decapitation. Coroner Pierce noted that the lack of hesitation marks in the disarticulation of the body indicated a strong, confident killer, very familiar with the human anatomy. The head had been cut off with one bold, clean stroke. The victim died instantly. Identification was never made. Six brutal killings in one year and the police had neither clues nor suspects. The Cleveland Press, The Cleveland News and The Cleveland Plain Dealer all reported almost daily on the killings and the lack of a suspect. Tension was high. Who was the "Mad Butcher" of Kingsbury Run? Giving in to mounting pressure from Mayor Harold Burton, recently appointed Safety Director Eliot Ness gets more involved in the case. Coroner Pierce calls for what the newspapers dub a “Torso Clinic”: a meeting of police, the Coroner and other experts to discuss information and to “profile” someone who could be responsible for these gruesome killings. The police department put detectives Peter Merylo and Martin Zelewski on the case full time. They move deftly through the seedy underworld that constitutes the Run and the Roaring Third, often dressing the part, often on their own time. By the time the case had run its course, the two had interviewed more than fifteen hundred people, the department as a whole more than five thousand. This would be the biggest police investigation in Cleveland history. The November elections return Harold Burton as Mayor, but Coroner Pierce is replaced by the young democrat, and now legendary, Sam Gerber. Gerber’s fierce dedication to medicine, along with his degree in law, put him at the forefront of the investigation. February 1937: A man finds the upper half of a woman's torso washed up on shore east of Brahtenahl. Unlike all previous victims, the cause of death had not been decapitation; this had happened after she was already dead. The lower half of the torso washed ashore three months later at about East 30th Street. The woman was in her mid-twenties. She was never identified. June 1937: A teenage boy discovered a human skull under the Lorain-Carnegie bridge. Next to it was a burlap bag containing the skeletal remains of what turned out to be a petite black women about forty years old. Dental work allowed for the unofficial identification of one Rose Wallace of Scovill Avenue. Police followed every lead they had on her – they led nowhere. July 1937: There were labor problems in the Flats that summer and the National Guard had been called in to maintain order. A young guardsman standing watch by the West 3rd Street bridge saw the first piece of victim #9 in the wake of a passing tugboat. Over the next few days, police recovered the entire body, except for the head, from the waters of the Cuyahoga River. The abdomen had been gutted and the heart ripped out, clearly indicating a new element of viciousness in the killer’s approach. The victim was in his mid to late thirties; he was never identified. April 1938: A young laborer on his way to work in the Flats saw, what he at first thought was a dead fish, along the banks of the Cuyahoga River. Closer inspection revealed it to be the lower half of a women’s leg, the first piece of victim #10. A month later police pulled two burlap bags out of the river containing both parts of the torso and most of the rest of both legs. For the first time Coroner Gerber detected drugs in the system. Were the drugs used to immobilize the victim or was she an addict? The answer might come when they found the arms; they never did. She was never identified. August 16, 1938: Three scrap collectors foraging in a dump site at East 9th and Lakeside found the torso of a woman wrapped in a man’s double breasted blue blazer and then wrapped again in an old quilt. The legs and arms were discovered in a recently constructed makeshift box, wrapped in brown butcher paper and held together with rubber bands. The head had been similarly wrapped. Gerber noted that some of the parts looked as if they had been refrigerated. While searching for more pieces, the police discover the remains of a second body only yards away. These two bodies had been placed in a location that was in plain view from Eliot Ness’s office window, almost as if taunting him. Both victims #11 and #12 were never identified. August 18, 1938: At 12:40 A.M., Eliot Ness and a group of thirty-five police officers and detectives, raid the hobo jungles of the Run. Eleven squad cars, two police vans and three fire trucks descend on the largest cluster of makeshift shacks where the Cuyahoga River twists behind Public Square. Ness’s raiders worked their way south through the Run eventually gathering up sixty-three men. At dawn, police and fireman searched the deserted shanties for clues. Then, on orders from Safety Director Ness, the shacks were set on fire and burned to the ground. The press severely criticized Ness for his actions. The public was afraid and frustrated. Critics said the raid would do nothing to solve the murders. They were right, but for whatever reason, they did stop. July 1939: County Sheriff Martin O’Donnell arrested fifty-two-year-old Bohemian brick layer Frank Dolezal for the murder of Flo Polillo. Dolezal had lived with her for a while, and subsequent investigation revealed he had been acquainted with Edward Andrassy and Rose Wallace. His “confession” turned out to be a bewildering blend of incoherent ramblings and neat, precise details, almost as if he had been coached. Before he could go to trial, Dolezal was found dead in his cell. The five foot eight Dolezal had hanged himself from a hook only five feet seven inches off the floor. Gerber’s autopsy revealed six broken ribs, all of which had been obtained while in the Sheriff’s custody. To this day no one thinks Frank Dolezal was the torso killer. The question is: why did Sheriff O’Donnell. Other suspects:Most investigators consider the last canonical murder to have been in 1938. One suspected individual was Dr. Francis E. Sweeney. Born May 5, 1894, Sweeney was a veteran of World War I who was part of a medical unit that conducted amputations in the field. Sweeney was later personally interviewed by Eliot Ness, who oversaw the official investigation into the killings in his capacity as Cleveland's Safety Director. During this interrogation, Sweeney is said to have "failed to pass" two very early polygraph machine tests. Both tests were administered by polygraph expert Leonarde Keeler, who told Ness he had his man. Ness apparently felt there was little chance of obtaining a successful prosecution of the doctor, especially as he was the first cousin of one of Ness's political opponents, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney, who had hounded Ness publicly about his failure to catch the killer. After Sweeney committed himself, there were no more leads or connections that police could assign to him as a possible suspect. From his hospital confinement, Sweeney sent threatening postcards and harassed Ness and his family into the 1950s. Sweeney died in a veterans' hospital in Dayton on July 9, 1964. In 1997, another theory postulated that there may have been no single Butcher of Kingsbury Run because the murders could have been committed by different people. This was based on the assumption that the autopsy results were inconclusive. First, Cuyahoga County Coroner Arthur J. Pearce may have been inconsistent in his analysis as to whether the cuts on the bodies were expert or slapdash. Second, his successor, Samuel Gerber, who began to enjoy press attention from his involvement in such cases as the Sam Sheppard murder trial, garnered a reputation for sensational theories. Therefore, the only thing known for certain was that all the murder victims were dismembered. Black dahlia connection: The gruesome 1947 murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, THE BLACK DAHLIA, which inspired countless books and films, remains unsolved. Yet, Short’s killer, many believe, may have been the Cleveland Torso Killer. On January 15, 1947, her nude body was discovered cut in half and severely mutilated in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles. The killer not only cleaved the body in twain and mutilated the corpse, but Short had also been drained entirely of blood and the remains scrubbed clean. Short’s face had also been slashed from the corners of her mouth to her ears, creating a chilling effect known as the “Glasgow Smile”- resembling The Joker. “It was pretty gruesome,” Detective Brian Carr of the Los Angeles Police Department said. “I just can’t imagine someone doing that to another human being.”Dubbed “The Black Dahlia” by the press, the case made headlines for weeks as every aspect of Short’s brief life was examined by LAPD detectives and the media. The closest thing they had to a clue was that Short had been working as a waitress before meeting her untimely end. A round-up of the café’s habitues yielded nothing. Dahlia_Map The exhaustive homicide investigation went nowhere. As per usual in a high profile murder case, there were several confessions by kooks and a plethora of sketchy witnesses looking to get their names bold-faced in the tabloids. Black Dahlia Evidence The Elizabeth Short murder remains one of the most bizarre cold cases in history, fueling a true crime cottage industry of novels and films that purport to solve the crime. Yet, The Black Dahlia may have been a victim of an infamous serial killer who terrorized America’s heartland: The Cleveland Torso Murderer. As the bodies piled up, The Torso Murderer always chopped the heads from his victims’ bodies, often cleaving the torsos in half. Several of the male victims were castrated and others were cleaned with a chemical solvent. The victims’ remains were inevitably found months or years after they had been mercilessly butchered. Identification by police was often impossible as the victims’ heads were rarely found. Often it was truly “a hank of hair, a piece of bone…” Initially, LAPD investigators probing the Elizabeth Short murder conducted a reexamination of the Cleveland Torso Murderer case files. While the similarities were uncanny, the link to the Dahlia case proved inconclusive at first. In 1980, a former Cleveland Torso murder suspect, Jack Anderson Wilson, was under investigation by renowned LAPD homicide detective “Jigsaw” John P. St. John. St. John claimed he was close to proving Wilson had not only been the Cleveland Torso Murderer but had also butchered, Elizabeth Short – the Black Dahlia. Before St. John could arrest him, the suspect died in a fire in 1982. A local Cleveland man who studied the case for years named James Nadal is certain that the aforementioned doctor Frances Sweeney is indeed the killer. He lays out evidence in an interview with Cleveland magazine in 2014. He puts forth on his 2001 book that there was a vagrant named Emil Fronek who claimed a Cleveland doctor tried to drug him in 1934 — right around the time the murders may have begun. Badal also believes he's identified the butcher's laboratory, the place where he disarticulated his victims. You can find the Cleveland magazine interview online if you're interested. It's good reading and definitely interesting. The story of the vagrant being poisoned we are going to include here because it's pretty interesting and it's definitely an intriguing part of the tale: In November 1934, Fronek supposedly was walking up Broadway Avenue, looking for food. He said he found himself on the second floor of a doctor's office. The doctor said, "I'll give you a meal." While Emil was shoveling the food down, he began to feel woozy and wondered if he'd been drugged. So he ran down the steps, onto Broadway and into Kingsbury Run, got into a boxcar, fell asleep and awoke three days later. He said he went back to Broadway and East 55th, but couldn't find the doctor. He decided Cleveland was pretty dangerous, so he went to Chicago and got a job as a longshoreman. In August 1938, his story got back to Cleveland. Detective Peter Merylo was sent to Chicago to bring him back. Two policemen drove Fronek up Broadway slowly. When he got to the area around East 50th and East 55th, he says, "It's here someplace." They walked up and down the street several times, but he couldn't find anything that looked like a doctor's office. Ness interviewed him. Officially, they decide — this is what the papers report — that they didn't think it had anything to do with the butcher. They were convinced the butcher's laboratory was close to downtown. Another interesting theory involves a series of killings actors the pond. They were also dubbed The Torso Murders. They happened forty years earlier, in London. While Jack the Ripper was terrorizing Whitechapel, a second serial killer was dismembering bodies and dumping the body parts. Most of them ended up in the Thames, but a few were found in secluded parks… Near Whitechapel. At one point during the Ripper investigation, the two murderers were even compared and it was decided that The Torso Murderer of London and Jack the Ripper were not the same serial killer. It is unlikely that the killer from 1888 in London dismembering bodies was the same killer doing it in Cleveland in 1936. Even if the London murderer was 18 at the time, he would have been 58 when the first body turned up in Cleveland. However, there has been speculation that the two sets of murders could have been committed by a father/son. It is possibly the earliest mention of a father passing along his desire to kill to a son. At the time of the Torso Murders in Cleveland, this was dismissed as farfetched, but recent research has revealed that some of the details of the crimes are almost exact matches for each other. In 1937 however, it was proposed by a coroner who was aware of the Torso Murders in London and Ness made the coroner swear to never repeat the theory or he’d fire him for being incompetent.Do there were have it, the most chilling, crazy, headless serial killer you've probably never heard of.. Unless you're from Cleveland is a big time serial murder enthusiast. Was it related to the black dahlia? Was it a deranged doctor? Was it actually a group of people it a bunch of copycat killers disposing of bodies so as to throw off authorities? We may never know. Cleveland's very own Jack the Ripper. There are many books as one might expect written about this subject. Much of the information for this episode was gathered from two places. First a book entitled "Maniac in The Bushes and more Tales Of Cleveland Woe" written by John Stark Bellamy II. It contains numerous stories of true crime and disasters from Cleveland throughout the years. He had a series of these books which are great reading even if you're not from Cleveland which detail other major crimes like the Sam Shepherd murder trial and disasters like the Collinwood highschool fire and the May Day riots. The second source was the Cleveland police museum website. As far as the top ten movies for tonight… There are several documentaries based on these murders. A movie called Kingsbury Run was released in 2018. The movie is about a killer who is basing his crime spree off of the Torso Murders. 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S03E34 Mechanical Threshing Machines, Poor Harvests, The July Revolution, Captain Swing's Letters, The Poor Law, And A Disaster For The Working Class. You can now support the show at https://thejaymo.net/support/ Links: Music: Captain Swing Graham Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0XCxGgQJ0g Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded in one hour by @thejaymo Website: https://www.thejaymo.net/ Podcast: http://permanentlymoved.online Zine: http://startselectreset.com Support: https://thejaymo.net/support/
His new book takes a look at the resurgence of right-wing politicians and activists across the globe. Today’s labor history: “Swing Riots” trials get underway in England. Today’s labor quote by Captain Swing.
Helen Castor and her guests take us back to moments in the past when social and economic change conspired to produce the historical forerunners of two of today's most pressing issues - technological change and housing. Tom Holland visits a fruit-packing factory in Kent where, today, much of the work is done by robots. Their introduction hasn't threatened any jobs yet but, half an hour away, are the villages where, in 1830, rural farmworkers raged against new threshing machines they feared would take away much-needed work in the winter months. Professor Carl Griffin from the University of Sussex explains how the mythical Captain Swing shook the government of the day and terrified landowners in a series of machine-wrecking riots that swept South East England, Wiltshire and East Anglia. Britain's housing issues have kick-started a boom in a type of home that came to the rescue in the dark days after World War Two, when prefabs offered accommodation for those who were bombed or living in slums. Thanks to a certain Swedish company, we all know about flat-packed furniture but, back in the late 1940s, it was Swedish flat-packed houses that were causing a stir. Architectural writer Jonathan Glancey gives us the low-down on a house that changed lives and is, in some places, still standing. Producer: Nick Patrick A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FolkCast: the podcast that brings you the worlds of folk, folk-rock, singer-songwriter and roots music. Get down (Shep!) with a selection of the latest folkie sounds, plus an Eastern European excursion for some brilliant new releases. FolkCast is produced and presented by Folkie Phil Widdows Music featured: Death And The Maiden by Nuala Kennedy from the album "Behave The Bravest" (2016) Don't Look Back, Don't Look Down by Rusty Shackle from the album "Dusk" (2016) All Hang Down by Jon Boden digital release (2016) Down Down Down by Genevieve And The Wild Sundays from the album "Fine Line" (2016) Matches In The Wind by Steve Pledger download single (2016) There's No Postcard For This Town by Adam Beattie from the album "The Road Not Taken" (2016) Sending Out Fires by David Ian Roberts from the EP "Sending Out Fires" (2016) Bonnie Ship The Diamond by Long Lankin from the album "All Seven Stars" (2016) Paces by Our Little Nell digital single (2016) Lovely Molly by Gillian Frame from the album "Pendulum" (2016) Babba presents... The Story Behind The Song "Tolpuddle Man" by Graham Moore from the album "Tolpuddle Man" (1995) also featuring: Captain Swing by Brian Denny from "Voice & Vision" (2014) Dorsetshire Hornpipe by Bob Cann from "West Country Melodeon" (1975) ...being the story of the Swing Riots and The Tolpuddle Martyrs, heroes of the trade union movement The Owslebury Lads by The Foxglove Trio from the album "These Gathered Branches" (2015) Orsa by Tuulikki Barosik from the album "Storied Sounds" (2016) Po Vijne Krushqit / Gankino Horo by Paul Chamberlain & Michael Haywood from the album "First Impression" (2016) Plon by St Nicholas Orchestra from the album "Mode & Code" (2016) Good Times Will Come Again by Megson from the album "Good Times Will Come Again" (2016) For full details and links to artists’ websites, see the ShowNotes at www.folkcast.co.uk
Institute of Historical Research Paris-Sorbonne University The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest Carl Griffin (Queen's University, Belfast) Franco-British History seminar series
We earn our explicit tag with talk on Crossed and transgressive art (Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, XXXombies, Walking Dead, Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, Pontypool, Body Bags and Jason Pearson, Art That Kills by George Petros, Mike Diana, and more), Mr. Monster's Hi-Octane Horror #1 (Michael T. Gilbert, Jerry Grandenetti, Basil Wolverton, and George Evans), Chris Burnham, Wonder Woman #600 again, DC Legacies, Action #890 and Paul Cornell, Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark, Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 and 2000 AD, Banimon, Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham Volume 1, I, Zombie, Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres, Alan Moore's Neonomicon, Young Allies #1, Aliens Vs. Predator: Three Worlds War, Micronauts, and a whole mess more!
Collective violence, in the form of popular protest, was one of the principal ways in which people resisted the expansion of capitalism and the state throughout the nineteenth century. The nature of this protest can be charted through three different, but related examples: grain riots across Europe in the first half of the century, the mythical figure of Captain Swing in England, and the Demoiselles of the Ariège in France. While these movements were ultimately repressed by the forces of capital and state power, they represented an attempt on the part of working people, the "remainders" of history, to impose an idea of popular justice.
Collective violence, in the form of popular protest, was one of the principal ways in which people resisted the expansion of capitalism and the state throughout the nineteenth century. The nature of this protest can be charted through three different, but related examples: grain riots across Europe in the first half of the century, the mythical figure of Captain Swing in England, and the Demoiselles of the Ariège in France. While these movements were ultimately repressed by the forces of capital and state power, they represented an attempt on the part of working people, the "remainders" of history, to impose an idea of popular justice.
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