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Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! The Doves set off on their journey and get to know the passengers of the Empress Express.Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping!#magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage***Kelly Clark as StorytellerStarringAmy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence GoodwinRobin Holford as Darcie HarknessJen Peters as Josephine CarringtonChristine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor ***Visit our website ► https://dorktales.caWatch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktalesJoin our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9AbFollow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha...Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.comSupport the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com!***Music credits:Tracks from Joel Steudler Heartwarming Magic Adventure Antics AboundLicensed under a Humble Bundle Collection Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark The MirrorThese songs are Licensed under a Premium Licensehttp://www.darkfantasystudio.comMusic from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Consumed Arendelle Andante Guitar Etheric Etropy B Plot ThickensThese songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundlehttps://www.monumentstudios.netLike what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves go shopping and Josephine gets tatted out!Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping!#magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage***Kelly Clark as StorytellerStarringAmy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence GoodwinRobin Holford as Darcie HarknessJen Peters as Josephine CarringtonChristine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor ***Visit our website ► https://dorktales.caWatch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktalesJoin our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9AbFollow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha...Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.comSupport the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com!***Music credits:Tracks from Joel Steudler Heartwarming Magic Adventure Licensed under a Humble Bundle Collection Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark Haunting BridesThese songs are Licensed under a Premium Licensehttp://www.darkfantasystudio.comMusic from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients ConsumedThese songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundlehttps://www.monumentstudios.netLike what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves go shopping and Josephine gets tatted out! Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Tracks from Joel Steudler Heartwarming Magic Adventure Licensed under a Humble Bundle Collection Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark Shadow Tunnel Ancient Ceremony These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Nightfall Market in the Desert Outdoor Marketplace Bazaar These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, a new member of the team is born... er, made. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Tracks from Joel Steudler Heartwarming Magic Adventure Licensed under a Humble Bundle Collection Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Nightfall Market in the Desert Outdoor Marketplace Bazaar These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, Samuel Blackwood meets Darcie. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Entropy Veil Lighthearted These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves attempt to heal Josephine and take care of some... hard problems. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Entropy Veil Lighthearted These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves get into a bit of trouble on board. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Entropy Chaotic Tavern Another Round Exodus Suspense Bass These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves begin their journey to Egypt. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Entropy Dork Time Piano Alice Guitar Forthright Choir Exodus These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves finally set sail! Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Veil Entropy Dork Time Piano Alice Guitar Forthright Choir Exodus These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
The obsession with thinness didn't just appear out of nowhere-and it's not just about beauty, body image, or "health."In this episode, I'm unpacking the deeper history of diet culture, female body standards, and the social conditioning that taught women to shrink themselves-physically, emotionally, and culturally. From historical ideals of discipline and restraint to the racial roots of the modern thin ideal, we're digging into how thinness became tied to morality, self-control, and worth.This is a conversation about appetite, power, control, and the quiet rules women have been taught to follow without ever questioning them.So the real question is... when did thinness stop being about beauty-and start being about obedience?Are. You. Ready?****************Sources & References:Core Books & Foundational TextsWolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth (1991)Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993)Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish (1975)Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019)Historical Context: Appetite, Religion & Discipline“Gluttony.” Encyclopaedia Britannica“How the Seven Deadly Sins Began as ‘Eight Evil Thoughts.'” History.comForcen, Fernando E. “The Practice of Holy Fasting in the Late Middle Ages.” Journal of Religion and Health (2015)Bynum, Caroline Walker. “The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women.”Victorian Femininity & Bodily ControlMurray, E. Food and Femininity in Victorian Literature (2022)Coar, L. “Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice: The Victorian Woman's All-Consuming Predicament.”Krondl, M. Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age (2022)“Did Corsets Harm Women's Health?” New York Academy of MedicineRacism, Fatphobia & the Thin IdealStrings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body (NYU Press)“How Racism Created the Thin Ideal.” UC Irvine School of Social SciencesReview of Fearing the Black Body. UCLA Center for the Study of WomenWeight Stigma & Social Bias“The Burden of Weight Stigma.” American Psychological Association (2022)“Weight Stigma.” National Eating Disorders AssociationGiel et al. “Weight Bias in Work Settings – A Qualitative Review.”National Academies / NCBI — Weight stigma and labor market outcomesSocial Media, Wellness Culture & Modern ThinnessMunro et al. “Diet Culture on TikTok” (2024)Davis et al. “#WhatIEatInADay on TikTok” (2023)Weber. “TikToxic Effects of ‘That Girl' Content” (2025)Germic. Digital Wellness Culture & Womanhood (2025)“Why ‘Skinny' Culture Is Back.” University of Colorado Anschutz (2026)****************Leave Us a 5* Rating, it helps the show!Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beauty-unlocked-the-podcast/id1522636282Spotify Podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/37MLxC8eRob1D0ZcgcCorA****************Follow Us on TikTok & Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!YouTube:@beautyunlockedspodcasthourTikTok:tiktok.com/@beautyunlockedthepod****************Intro/Outro Music:“Fame Inc” by Savvier — https://icons8.com/music
Welcome to book three of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, we do a check-in with the cast and plan the next books! Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Dr. Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! https://www.tabletopaudio.com
In this special side episode, Chastity goes on her Seeking in an attempt to earn Arete 4! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage #mage20 === Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor Graphic Design by Michael Ilott You can find Michael here on Dork Tales or at https://twitch.tv/sylvesterslays The Mage the Ascension: The Victorian Era logo, this background, and all related images and logos are the property of their respective rights holders. === Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Our Linktree ► https://linktr.ee/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktaleschannel/ Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! Want to ascend? Perhaps clicking that little bell and subscribing will show you the way of true enlightenment... === Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Evil Inside Something in the Dark Just Behind These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Lighthearted Ouija Clock Ticks Alice Celeste Horror Tones D Anxiety State These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
The wide-variety of organisms that formed on the North American continent, later evolved into the present myriad of life-forms that inhabit this corner of the world. During the mid-nineteenth century an English scientist put forth an explanation for our planet’s diversity of life—a fascinating theory of evolution that shook the Victorian Age to its core and still reverberates to this day. 1859 witnessed the seminal publication of «On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life» by Charles Robert Darwin. International Darwin Day is celebrated annually on February 12th (the birthday of Charles Darwin, 1809-82) to commemorate his foundational contributions to science, particularly the theory of evolution by natural selection, and to honor the "Father of Evolution" for transforming the understanding of life and the interconnectedness of species. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/tWsDG18etmg which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin at https://amzn.to/4qxDw8P Books about by Evolution available at https://amzn.to/4r9lFWN Books about by Charles Darwin at https://amzn.to/3ZtQ9a3 ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarkVinet_HNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Audio credits: On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (Google Play).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I'm joined today by fan favorite author Lee Morgan to discuss his newest work, The Rag and Bone Man. This book has a 'head, heart, and hands' component that looks at the Victorian Age and Spiritualism and its relationship with witchcraft, from a research angle, from a creative writing angle, and finally from a practical grimoire one.Rag & Bone Man by Lee MorganWho comes meandering along your street in the dawn hours. He's looking for old things that still have a bit of fat left in them, including off-cuts of the dreams of outsiders. If you decide to stop and talk to him, he will tell you the old tales of how to tease out the teeming world of spirits that bulges behind our reality. The Rag & Bone Man's uncanny narrative, bookended with historical context and a grimoire inspired by the novel, bridges the gap between old ideas and new paradigms with a watchful eye focused on historical biases.Find the book and Lee:The Rag & Bone Man: https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/the-rag-bone-man Website: https://www.leemorganbooks.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/u19417687
Episode 87 Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold Mark McGuinness reads and discusses ‘Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold. https://media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/content.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/87_Dover_Beach_by_Matthew_Arnold.mp3 Poet Matthew Arnold Reading and commentary by Mark McGuinness Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!Only, from the long line of sprayWhere the sea meets the moon-blanched land,Listen! you hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so new,Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night. Podcast Transcript This is a magnificent and haunting poem by Matthew Arnold, an eminent Victorian poet. Written and published at the mid-point of the nineteenth century – it was probably written around 1851 and published in 1867 – it is not only a shining example of Victorian poetry at its best, but it also, and not coincidentally, embodies some of the central preoccupations of the Victorian age. The basic scenario is very simple: a man is looking out at the sea at night and thinking deep thoughts. It's something that we've all done, isn't it? The two tend to go hand-in-hand. When you're looking out into the darkness, listening to the sound of the sea, it's hard not to be thinking deep thoughts. If you've been a long time listener to this podcast, it may remind you of another poet who wrote about standing on the shore thinking deep thoughts, looking at the sea, Shakespeare, in his Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end; Arnold's poem is not a sonnet but a poem in four verse paragraphs. They're not stanzas, because they're not regular, but if you look at the text on the website, you can clearly see it's divided into four sections. The first part is a description of the sea, as seen from Dover Beach, which is on the shore of the narrowest part of the English channel, making it the closest part of England to France: The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; – on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. And as you can hear, the poem has a pretty regular and conventional rhythm, based on iambic metre, ti TUM, with the second syllable taking the stress in every metrical unit. But what's slightly unusual is that the lines have varying lengths. By the time we get to the third line: Upon the straits; – on the French coast the light There are five beats. There's a bit of variation in the middle of the line, but it's very recognisable as classic iambic pentameter, which has a baseline pattern going ti TUM, ti TUM, ti TUM, ti TUM, ti TUM. But before we get to the pentameter, we get two short lines: The sea is calm tonight.Only three beats; andThe tide is full, the moon lies fair – four beats. We also start to notice the rhymes: ‘tonight' and ‘light'. And we have an absolutely delightful enjambment, where a phrase spills over the end of one line into the next one: On the French coast the light,Gleams and is gone. Isn't that just fantastic? The light flashes out like a little surprise at the start of the line, just as it's a little surprise for the speaker looking out to sea. OK, once he's set the scene, he makes an invitation: Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! So if there's a window, he must be in a room. There's somebody in the room with him, and given that it's night it could well be a bedroom. So this person could be a lover. It's quite likely that this poem was written on Arnold's honeymoon, which would obviously fit this scenario. But anyway, he's inviting this person to come to the window and listen. And what does this person hear? Well, helpfully, the speaker tells us: Listen! you hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in. Isn't that just great? The iambic metre is continuing with some more variations, which we needn't go into. And the rhyme is coming more and more to the fore. Just about every line in this section rhymes with another line, but it doesn't have a regular pattern. Some of the rhymes are close together, some are further apart. There's only one line in this paragraph that doesn't rhyme, and that's ‘Listen! You hear the grating roar'. If this kind of shifting rhyme pattern reminds you of something you've heard before, you may be thinking all the way back to Episode 34 where we looked at Coleridge's use of floating rhymes in his magical poem ‘Kubla Khan'. And it's pretty evident that Arnold is also casting a spell, in this case to mimic the rhythm of the waves coming in and going out, as they ‘Begin, and cease, and then again begin,'. And then the wonderful last line of the paragraph, as the waves ‘bring / The eternal note of sadness in'. You know, in the heart of the Victorian Age, when the Romantics were still within living memory, poets were still allowed to do that kind of thing. Try it nowadays of course, and the Poetry Police will be round to kick your front door in at 5am and arrest you. Anyway. The next paragraph is a bit of a jump cut: Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; So Arnold, a classical scholar, is letting us know he knows who Sophocles, the ancient Greek playwright was. And he's establishing a continuity across time of people looking out at the sea and thinking these deep thoughts. At this point, Arnold explicitly links the sea and the thinking: weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea. And the thought that we hear when we listen to the waves is what Arnold announces in the next verse paragraph, and he announces it with capital letters: The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. And for a modern reader, I think this is the point of greatest peril for Arnold, where he's most at risk of losing us. We may be okay with ‘the eternal note of sadness', but as soon as he starts giving us the Sea of Faith, we start to brace ourselves. Is this going to turn into a horrible religious allegory, like The Pilgrim's Progress? I mean, it's a short step from the Sea of Faith to the Slough of Despond and the City of Destruction. And it doesn't help that Arnold uses the awkwardly rhyming phrase ‘a bright girdle furled' – that's not going to get past the Poetry Police, is it? But fear not; Arnold doesn't go there. What comes next is, I think, the best bit of the poem. So he says the Sea of Faith ‘was once, too, at the full', and then: But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world. Well, if you thought the eternal note of sadness was great, this tops it! It's absolutely fantastic. That line, ‘Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,' where the ‘it' is faith, the Sea of Faith. And the significance of the line is underlined by the fact that the word ‘roar' is a repetition – remember, that one line in the first section that didn't rhyme? Listen! you hear the grating roar See what Arnold did there? He left that sound hovering at the back of the mind, without a rhyme, until it came back in this section, a subtle but unmistakeable link between the ‘grating roar' of the actual sea at Dover Beach, and the ‘withdrawing roar' of the Sea of Faith: Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Isn't that the most Victorian line ever? It encapsulates the despair that accompanied the crisis of faith in 19th century England. This crisis was triggered by the advance of modern science – including the discoveries of fossils, evidence of mass extinction of previous species, and the theory of evolution, with Darwin's Origin of Species published in 1859, in between the writing and publication of ‘Dover Beach'. Richard Holmes, in his wonderful new biography of the young Tennyson, compares this growing awareness of the nature of life on Earth to the modern anxiety over climate change. For the Victorians, he writes, it created a ‘deep and existential terror'. One thing that makes this passage so effective is that Arnold has already cast the spell in the first verse paragraph, hypnotising us with the rhythm and rhyme, and linking it to the movement of the waves. In the second paragraph, he says, ‘we find also in the sound a thought'. And then in the third paragraph, he tells us the thought. And the thought that he attaches to this movement, which we are by now emotionally invested in, is a thought of such horror and profundity – certainly for his Victorian readers – that the retreat of the sea of faith really does feel devastating. It leaves us gazing down at the naked shingles of the world. The speaker is now imaginatively out of the bedroom and down on the beach. This is very relatable; we've all stood on the beach and watched the waves withdrawing beneath our feet and the shingle being left there. It's an incredibly vivid evocation of a pretty abstract concept. Then, in the fourth and final verse paragraph, comes a bit of a surprise: Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! Well, I for one was not expecting that! From existential despair to an appeal to his beloved. What a delightful, romantic (with a small ‘r') response to the big-picture, existential catastrophe. And for me, it's another little echo of Shakespeare's Sonnet 60, which opens with a poet contemplating the sea and the passing of time and feeling the temptation to despair, yet also ends with an appeal to the consolation of love: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,blockquotePraising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Turning back to Arnold. He says ‘let us be true / To one another'. And then he links their situation to the existential catastrophe, and says this is precisely why they should be true to each other: for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so new,Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; It sounds, on the face of it, a pretty unlikely justification for being true to one another in a romantic sense. But actually, this is a very modern stance towards romantic love. It's like the gleam of light that just flashed across the Channel from France – the idea of you and me against an unfeeling world, of love as redemption, or at least consolation, in a meaningless universe. In a world with ‘neither joy, nor love, nor light,' our love becomes all the more poignant and important. Of course, we could easily object that, regardless of religious faith, the world does have joy and love and light. His very declaration of love is evidence of this. But let's face it, we don't always come to poets for logical consistency, do we? And we don't have to agree with Matthew Arnold to find this passage moving; most of us have felt like this at some time when we've looked at the world in what feels like the cold light of reality. He evokes it so vividly and dramatically that I, for one, am quite prepared to go with him on this. Then we get the final three lines of the poem:We are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night. I don't know about you, but I find this a little jarring in the light of what we've just heard. We've had the magnificent description of the sea and its effect on human thought, extending that into the idea of faith receding into illusion, and settling on human love as some kind of consolation for the loss of faith. So why do we need to be transported to a windswept plain where armies are clashing and struggling? It turns out to be another classical reference, to the Greek historian Thucydides' account of the night battle of Epipolae, where the two armies were running around in the dark and some of them ended up fighting their own side in the confusion. I mean, fine, he's a classical scholar. And obviously, it's deeply meaningful to him. But to me, this feels a little bit bolted on. A lot of people love that ending, but to me, it's is not as good as some of the earlier bits, or at least it doesn't quite feel all of a piece with the imagery of the sea. But overall, it is a magnificent poem, and this is a small quibble. Stepping back, I want to have another look at the poem's form, specifically the meter, and even more specifically, the irregularity of the meter, which is quite unusual and actually quite innovative for its time. As I've said, it's in iambic meter, but it's not strictly iambic pentameter. You may recall I did a mini series on the podcast a while ago looking at the evolution of blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, from Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare's dramatic verse, then Milton's Paradise Lost and finally Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. ‘Dover Beach' is rhymed, so it's not blank verse, but most of the techniques Arnold uses here are familiar from those other poets, with variations on the basic rhythm, sometimes switching the beats around, and using enjambment and caesura (a break or pause in the middle of the line). But, and – this is quite a big but – not every line has five beats. The lines get longer and shorter in an irregular pattern, apparently according to Arnold's instinct. And this is pretty unusual, certainly for 1851. It's not unique, we could point to bits of Tennyson or Arthur Hugh Clough for metrical experiments in a similar vein, but it's certainly not common practice. And I looked into this, to see what the critics have said about it. And it turns out the scholars are divided. In one camp, the critics say that what Arnold is doing is firmly in the iambic pentameter tradition – it's just one more variation on the pattern. But in the other camp are people who say, ‘No, this is something new; this is freer verse,' and it is anticipating free verse, the non-metrical poetry with no set line lengths that came to be the dominant verse form of the 20th century. Personally, I think you can look back to Wordsworth and see a continuity with his poetic practice. But you could equally look forward, to a link with T. S. Eliot's innovations in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and The Waste Land. Eliot is often described as an innovator in free verse, which is true up to a point, but a lot of his writing in that early period isn't strictly free verse; it's a kind of broken up metrical verse, where he often uses an iambic metre with long and short lines, which he varies with great intuitive skill – in a similar manner to Arnold's ‘Dover Beach'. Interestingly, when ‘Dover Beach' was first published, the reviews didn't really talk about the metre, which is ammunition for the people who say, ‘Well, this is just a kind of iambic pentameter'. Personally, I think what we have here is something like the well-known Duck-Rabbit illusion, where you can look at the same drawing and either see a duck or a rabbit, depending how you look at it. So from one angle, ‘Dover Beach' is clearly continuing the iambic pentameter tradition; from another angle, it anticipates the innovations of free verse. We can draw a line from the regular iambic pentameter of Wordsworth (writing at the turn of the 18th and 19th century) to the fractured iambic verse of Eliot at the start of the 20th century. ‘Dover Beach' is pretty well halfway between them, historically and poetically. And I don't think this is just a dry technical development. There is something going on here in terms of the poet's sense of order and disorder, faith and doubt. Wordsworth, in the regular unfolding of his blank verse, conveys his basic trust in an ordered and meaningful universe. Matthew Arnold is writing very explicitly about the breakup of faith, and we can start to see it in the breakup of the ordered iambic pentameter. By the time we get to the existential despair of Eliot's Waste Land, the meter is really falling apart, like the Waste Land Eliot describes. So overall, I think we can appreciate what a finely balanced poem Arnold has written. It's hard to categorise. You read it the first time and think, ‘Oh, right, another conventional Victorian melancholy lament'. But just when we think he's about to go overboard with the Sea of Faith, he surprises us and with that magnificent central passage. And just as he's about to give in to despair, we get that glimmering spark of love lighting up, and we think, ‘Well, maybe this is a romantic poem after all'. And maybe Arnold might look at me over his spectacles and patiently explain that actually, this is why that final metaphor of the clashing armies is exactly right. Friend and foe are running in first one direction, then another, inadvertently killing the people on the wrong side. So the simile gives us that sense of being caught in the cross-currents of a larger sweep of history. With all of that hovering in our mind, let's go over to the window once more and heed his call to listen to the sound of the Victorian sea at Dover Beach. Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!Only, from the long line of sprayWhere the sea meets the moon-blanched land,Listen! you hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so new,Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold was a British poet, critic, and public intellectual who was born in 1822 and died in 1888. His father was Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School. Arnold studied Classics at Oxford and first became known for lyrical, melancholic poems such as ‘Dover Beach', ‘The Scholar-Gipsy', and ‘Thyrsis', that explore the loss of faith in the modern world. Appointed an inspector of schools, he travelled widely and developed strong views on culture, education, and society. His critical essays, especially Culture and Anarchy, shaped debates about the role of culture in public life. Arnold remains a central figure bridging Romanticism and early modern thought. A Mouthful of Air – the podcast This is a transcript of an episode of A Mouthful of Air – a poetry podcast hosted by Mark McGuinness. New episodes are released every other Tuesday. You can hear every episode of the podcast via Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favourite app. You can have a full transcript of every new episode sent to you via email. The music and soundscapes for the show are created by Javier Weyler. 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"Particularly bright and joyous" [THOR] Forget about the silence you might think is suggested by the word "pantomime." British panto is a raucous, musical, holiday tradition that expects the audience to be as loud as possible, booing the villain and cheering the hero. It's usually a comic, theatrical retelling of a fairy tale — like Cinderella or Aladdin — with slapstick for the kids, cheeky innuendo for the adults, and a cast that includes a campy "Dame" (a man in an over-the-top dress). Now Holmes, Watson, and the world of 221B have been lovingly added to the panto tradition in Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas, playing through January 18, 2026, at England's Birmingham Rep. The show is also a genuine whodunnit: West End stars are being murdered in mid performance. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the case? It's all the work of our guests Humphrey Ker and David Reed, writers and stars whose love of the Victorian Age, history, and classic literature has infused almost twenty years of collaboration. You'll hear about their work creating radio plays for the BBC, stage shows for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and their adventures as two-thirds of the comedy troupe "The Penny Dreadfuls." You'll also learn how Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas came about, and how it came to inspire new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber — creators of some of the most enduring musicals in history. Then it's on to our review of Sherlockian society activities in the second half of January in "The Learned Societies" segment. The remarkable Madeline Quinones caps her series of Holmesian podcast reviews with her final report in "A Chance of Listening," with our thanks and admiration. And the Canonical Couplet quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge, with a prize from the IHOSE vaults for the winner. Send your answer to comment @ihearofsherlock.com by December 14, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. All listeners are eligible to play. As a reminder, our supporters can listen to the show ad-free and have access to occasional bonus material. Join us on the platform of your choice (Patreon | Substack). And if you need some show swag or gift ideas, check out our Merch Store, with mugs, notepads and more. Leave I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts. Links Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas (Birmingham Rep) Humphrey Ker (Wikipedia) David Reed The Penny Dreadfuls Episodes mentioned in this show: Episode 259: Sketches of Scions Other links: A Chance of Listening: Genius and Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Madeline's podcast: Dynamics of a Podcast The Learned Societies: Sherlockian Calendar I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere / Trifles Merch Store Explore more here. Find all of our relevant links and social accounts at linktr.ee/ihearofsherlock. And would you consider leaving us a rating and or a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Goodpods? It would help other Sherlockians find us. Your thoughts on the show? Leave a comment below, send us an email (comment AT ihearofsherlock DOT com), call us at 5-1895-221B-5. That's (518) 952-2125.
Originally released for Patrons on Feb 13, 2023. "Highgate cemetery was one of the first large garden cemeteries built during the industrialization of London. Over the years it's had its ups and downs, from being a sought-after luxury cemetery to an abandoned, overgrown haunt of tramps and adolescents. It was even the scene of a possible vampire sighting. In this episode we discuss the history of Highgate."
The Bearded Lady, Zip the Pinhead, Major Tom Thumb, The Elephant Man, The Hottentot Venus - we delve into one of the more controversial corners of popular entertainment: the world of Victorian freak shows — where the abnormal, the extraordinary, and the misunderstood were paraded as spectacle and sold as wonder. But who were these so-called “freaks” - vulnerable human oddities driven to make a living the only way they could, cictims of exploitation, or pioneers of performance who found power in their difference? We're joined by Dr. John Jacob Woolf, historian and author of 'The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age', a book that offers a deeply researched, empathetic, and eye-opening look at the lives behind the wonderful posters, at the performers who captivated crowds and challenged Victorian notions of normality. We explore Freakery and ask who are the modern freaks? Who do we gawp, marvel and laugh at? More on John and hs work #counterculture #bureauoflostculture #lostculture #freaks #freakshow #victorian freakshow #davidlynch #elephantman #ptbarnum #josephmerrick
Send us a textIn today's episode, I interview Jonathan Hammond, the director of the short film "Fireflies in the Dusk," a clever genre bending comedy that brings the Victorian Age into the present day with hilarious results.Listen to hear about some of the films that inspired Jonathan's concept for the film, how he got his actors to buy into the absurd situations their characters would encounter, and what happens when an actor getting food poisoning in the middle of busy L.A. traffic.Books mentioned in this episode include:The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisMike Nichols: A Life by Mark HarrisPictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark HarrisOscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael SchulmanFilms and TV shows mentioned in this episode include:"Fireflies in the Dusk" directed by Jonathan HammondSomewhere in Time directed by Jeannot SzwarcPoltergeist directed by Tobe HooperThe Purple Rose of Cairo directed by Woody AllenBeing John Malkovich directed by Spike JonzeA Room With a View directed by James Ivory"30 Meetings/30 Days" directed by Duane Andersen"A Little House in Aberdeen" directed by Emily Goss8 Simple Rules (series)The Magicians (series)Pride & Prejudice directed by Joe WrightChinatown directed by Roman PolanskiGrand Illusion directed by Jean Renoir2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley KubrickYoung Frankenstein directed by Mel BrooksMolly's Game directed by Aaron SorkinHis Girl Friday directed by Howard HawksSilence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan DemmeYou can follow Jonathan on Instagram @jonohamm and the film @firefliesinthedusk and check out the film at the Cleveland International Film Festival!
Pantomimes, pleasure gardens, bare-knuckle boxing and political upheaval. Christmas in the 18th and early 19th centuries was a very different affair from the peaceful family celebration of the Victorian Age. Georgian Christmas was raucous and rowdy, and it was time for a bit of fun before heading back to work.In this seasonal episode, Dan delves into the festivities of London's working classes with Footprints of London tour guide Rob Smith. From an 18th-century showman who would put two joints of beef under his arms and walk into an oven - cooking them and miraculously not himself - to Joey Grimaldi, the world's first clown, Christmas in Regency London was surprising, lewd and quite extraordinary.You can book one of Rob's tours here: https://footprintsoflondon.com/live/guides/rob-smith/Produced by Mariana Des Forges and Rob Smith and edited by Max Carrey Dougal Patmore.
It's October and so you finally get a Halloween themed media episode to round out the month. First we talk about Robert Louis Stevenson and his book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. We discuss some of the major themes as well as some of the many, many, MANY movie depictions that have been done of it. Then we talk about the incredibly amazing metal album by A Wake in Providence titled I Write to You, My Darling Decay. And we end with happy news about the increase in early voting. Enjoy and have a happy Samhain! Show Notes: Robert Louis Stevenson: Robert Louis Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson RLS website: https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/ Fanny Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Stevenson The Lighthouse Stevensons: https://www.historyhit.com/the-lighthouse-stevensons-how-one-family-lit-up-the-coast-of-scotland/ The Speculative Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speculative_Society William Henley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson Project Gutenberg ebook of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42/pg42-images.html Gothic fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: https://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/works/jekyllandhyde/ Dualism in the Victorian Age: https://britlitsurvey2.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/dualism-in-the-victorian-age/ MOGP: I Write to You, My Darling album stream w/lyrics in video description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMc1tGG-JA&list=PLMJGV7p_FGBW2JGxXjBphgPzyrP-VJXby Interview with vocalists D'Andre Tyre and Adam Mercer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fnnin_99w Sundry links to magical grimiores referenced in the album https://archive.org/stream/a-book-of-the-office-of-spirits/A%20Book%20of%20the%20Office%20of%20Spirits_djvu.txt https://archive.org/details/ac_goetia/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/lesserkeysolomo00laurgoog/page/n7/mode/2up Happy News: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/more-than-600000-vote-by-mail-ballots-received-in-florida-elections-offices/ GoFundMe for Shannon: https://www.gofundme.com/help-shannon-grover-with-medical-expenses Email: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod Patreon page for documentary: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassBoxPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/ Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com Venmo: Shannon-Grover-10
This week we are covering one of our most requested subjects, Queen Victoria! We start with Victoria's childhood that she describes as, "rather melancholy" thanks to her scary mommy, and follow her journey to becoming Queen at just 18 years old. From navigating royal drama to falling head over heels for Prince Albert (who was also her cousin), we gab all about the juicy stories of her early reign. Victoria then became the symbolic matriarch of a vast empire, her reign shaped an era that would bear her name—The Victorian Age. We'll explore her personal triumphs, the complexities of her influence across Europe, and how she navigated a male-dominated world. You may call her aunt Vicky! (Get the Parent Trap reference?) Created by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald Go here for more about us, where to follow, and upcoming announcements! Join our Premium for $7.99/month where you get two bonus episodes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In the final episode of Book Two, the Doves confront the vile Dr. Escoffier. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Home The Evil Inside As It Comes Hidden in the Dark These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Forthright Piano Angered Spirit Combative Strings Anxious Strings Dark Consumed Requiem Choir Layers of Fear These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves storm a castle to rescue an ally. But who is the man in the iron mask? Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Home As It Comes Kraken These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Lighthearted Angered Spirit Cellar Anxious Strings Dark Vie Passage Plot Thickens These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
EPISODE 104: BURIED ALIVE During the late Victorian Era, the fear of being buried alive was very much real. Waves of cholera epidemics ravaged North America and Europe, leaving victims in near-dead states. Mirroring the concerns of the time, rumors spread about people being buried alive, so much so that many “safety coffins” and other graveside alerts were invented and implemented to prevent premature burial for the most decerning, and wealthy, of the Victorian Age. One such tall tale is that of Octavia Smith Hatcher of Pikeville, Kentucky. Whose death and burial have become a staple of Appalachian folk history. Join Kat, Jen, and Christina for tonight's exciting episode! Have your safety coffin on standby! Sources: https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/04/the-story-of-octavia-hatcher.html https://dreamingcasuallypoetry.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-true-story-of-octavia-hatcher.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12149411/octavia-hatcher https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102501966/james_hatcher https://dreamingcasuallypoetry.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-true-story-of-octavia-hatcher.html https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/octavia News: Say hi to Kat at SPX and CXC this September! PLUS Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities issue 3 Kickstarter starts in October! Join Christina's SKETCHING AND PAINTING WORKSHOP in Tuscany, May 2025! https://www.lisastatkus.com/christina-wald-a-sketching-obsession-in-tuscany-may-7th-16-2025/ Email us your hometown haunt story and we will read it on our next episode! hometownhauntedmail@gmail.com Follow us on Social: @cincycabinetofcuriosities (Instagram) Cincinnati Cabinet of Curiosities (Facebook) Follow Kat Klockow: https://www.patreon.com/redcatcomics/posts Kat's Web Toon Spiritus Maximus: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/spiritus-maximus-resurrected-/list?title_no=906177 Follow Christina Wald: https://www.instagram.com/christinawald_art/ Christina's Sketchy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/christinawald Follow Jen Koehler : https://society6.com/jenkoehlerart?fb
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, we flashback to the Doves' arrival in Paris and where it all went wrong from there. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Home Horns The Mirror These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Lighthearted Angered Spirit Cellar Anxious Strings Dark Odd Witcher Ambience Layers of Fear Piano These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
An 1870s photograph of a performer with a blonde afro leads to a look into the racial perceptions and treatment of the time. The "race" was completely made up by a scientist and capitalized on by none other than P.T. Barnum. A whole mythology of who they were and what they looked like would be born out of the views of the Victorian Age. Please help us out by leaving a comment and sharing our show with others! Don't forget to Subscribe, Comment & leave us a rating and review. We also have a YouTube Channel "Chasing History" where we take you into the field with the men & women who discover history!
What would it have really been like to visit a Victorian freak show? Were "freak performers" exploited, or empowered in a world that would likely have otherwise rejected them? And has the Victorian freak show ever really gone away?Joining Kate today is John Woolf, author of The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age, to take us back to this world and explore its dark side.This episode was edited by Tom Delargy, the producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.Voting is open for the Listener's Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards, so if you enjoy what we're doing, we'd love it if you took a quick follow this link and click on Betwixt the Sheets: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/votingEnjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Sign here for up to 50% for 3 months using code BETWIXTYou can take part in our listener survey here.Betwixt the Sheets: History of Sex, Scandal & Society is a History Hit podcast.
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves storm a castle to rescue an ally. But who is the man in the iron mask? Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Black Sails Buccaneers Thieves Dread These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Angered Spirit As It Comes Ambient Strings Dark These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
2/4. With towering masts and billowing sails, the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae raced neck and neck through relentless waves to be the first to arrive in London with their tea shipment from Shanghai. The first ship back could claim the highest price for its cargo. Dan is joined by Senior Archivist at Lloyd's Register Foundation Max Wilson for a dramatic blow-by-blow account of this high-stakes race that gripped Victorians in the late summer of 1872, where fortunes were made and lost by the hour. This is episode 2 of our mini-series 'Ships that Made the British Empire' that tells four stories of ships that have shaped Britain and its maritime history, from the trade that kickstarted the global food chain to the technology that revolutionised our ability to conquer the seas.You can find out more about Lloyd's Register Foundation, its history and its work that supports research, innovation and education to help the global community tackle the most pressing safety and risk challenges. Just go to https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore. Peta Stamper is the production manager and Beth Donaldson is the production coordinator for the series 'Ships that Made the British Empire'.We'd love to hear from you - what do you want to hear an episode on? You can email the podcast at ds.hh@historyhit.com.You can take part in our listener survey here.
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves begin an adventure to overthrow a corrupt... cardinal? What is going on here?! Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Buccaneers Thieves Pirates Kraken These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Angered Spirit Cellar Exuberant NPC These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to book two of Mage the Victorian Age! In this episode, the Doves begin to uncover their dire predicament. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Hidden In The Dark Mirror These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Lighthearted Angered Spirit Reborn Cellar Layers of Fear Piano Cinematic Atmos These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
Welcome to the first episode of book two! Today is going to be a perfect day in Paris. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Haunted Home Jolly Roger Ancient Gods These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Lighthearted Seasons Reborn Forthright Orchestra Cinematic Atmos These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
In this special side episode, Darcie goes on her Seeking in an attempt to earn Arete 4! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage #mage20 === Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor Graphic Design by Michael Ilott You can find Michael here on Dork Tales or at https://twitch.tv/sylvesterslays The Mage the Ascension: The Victorian Era logo, this background, and all related images and logos are the property of their respective rights holders. === Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Our Linktree ► https://linktr.ee/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktaleschannel/ Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! Want to ascend? Perhaps clicking that little bell and subscribing will show you the way of true enlightenment... === Music credits: Land Of Magic by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5679-land-of-magic- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Paradigm Witches These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Nightfall Vision of the Ancients Mountain and Valley Ambient Strings Dark Lighthearted These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
In this special side episode, Evelyn goes on her Seeking in an attempt to earn Arete 4! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage #mage20 === Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor Graphic Design by Michael Ilott You can find Michael here on Dork Tales or at https://twitch.tv/sylvesterslays The Mage the Ascension: The Victorian Era logo, this background, and all related images and logos are the property of their respective rights holders. === Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Our Linktree ► https://linktr.ee/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktaleschannel/ Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! Want to ascend? Perhaps clicking that little bell and subscribing will show you the way of true enlightenment... === Music credits: Land Of Magic by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5679-land-of-magic- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Paradigm These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Somber Orchestra Ambience Ether Lighthearted These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
In this episode, we prepare for the next book in the story of the Doves. Thank you to Bookwyrm Games for sponsoring Dork Tales this month! Use code DORKTALES2023 to save 15% at https://www.bookwyrmgames.com! Orders over $100 also enjoy free shipping! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage #mage20 *** Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor *** Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktalescha... Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! *** Music credits: Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Mirror In Search For These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Vision of the Ancients Ambient Strings Dark Daughter of Hatreds Strike Now Summoner's Circle These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net
In this special side episode, Josephine goes on a Seeking in an attempt to earn Arete 4! #magetheascension #victorianage #magevictorianage #onyxpath #actualplay #worldofdarkness #mage #mage20 === Kelly Clark as Storyteller Starring Amy Godfrey as Chastity Prudence Goodwin Robin Holford as Darcie Harkness Jen Peters as Josephine Carrington Christine Rattray as Evelyn Taylor Graphic Design by Michael Ilott You can find Michael here on Dork Tales or at https://twitch.tv/sylvesterslays The Mage the Ascension: The Victorian Era logo, this background, and all related images and logos are the property of their respective rights holders. === Visit our website ► https://dorktales.ca Watch us LIVE on Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/dorktales Our Linktree ► https://linktr.ee/dorktales Join our Discord ► https://discord.gg/zVtE9Ab Follow our Twitter ► https://twitter.com/dork_tales/ Follow our Instagram ► https://instagram.com/dorktaleschannel/ Find us on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/dorktaleschannel/ Listen to our Podcast ► https://dorktales.podbean.com Support the show on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/dorktales/ Buy official Dork Tales Merch ► https://teepublic.com/user/dorktales ► https://dorktalesstore.redbubble.com! Want to ascend? Perhaps clicking that little bell and subscribing will show you the way of true enlightenment... === Music credits: Land Of Magic by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5679-land-of-magic- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music From Dark Fantasy Studio Paradigm Black Sails Ocean Takes It All These songs are Licensed under a Premium License http://www.darkfantasystudio.com Music from Monument Studios: Somber Orchestra Ambience These songs are licensed as part of the All in One Bundle https://www.monumentstudios.net Like what you heard? For background ambiance, we used sounds from Tabletop Audio for this session, just like we have for off-camera games for years! Tabletop Audio is a site with a full toolkit of songs, special effects, and soundboards to bring your adventures to life! The composer, Tim, hosts the site for free, so give it a try and if you have a few spare bucks, definitely donate: the quality of his work is staggering. https://www.tabletopaudio.com
On The Literary Life Podcast this week, Angelina and Thomas wrap up their series on Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. In this final episode on this beautiful Victorian novel, our hosts begin with their commonplace quotes which lead into the book discussion and the Victorian ideas about the supernatural. They talk about the major plot points here at the end of this book, contrasting the way Jane Austen dealt with these sorts of stories in contrast with Anne Brontë's treatment of Agnes Grey. Some highlights of the conversation include thoughts on the world of education, the rebirth and reversal scene, and the question of how this story rates in terms of art versus didacticism. Check out the schedule for the podcast's summer episodes on our Upcoming Events page. Check out the brand new publishing wing of House of Humane Letters, Cassiodorus Press! You can sign up for that class or any of the HHL Summer Classes here. Sign up for the newsletter at HouseofHumaneLetters.comto stay in the know about all the exciting new things we have coming up! Commonplace Quotes: Praise is a cripple; blame has wings to fly. La louange est sans pieds et le blame a des ailes. Victor Hugo The idea of the supernatural was perhaps at as low an ebb as it had ever been–certainly much lower than it is now. But in spite of this, and in spite of a certain ethical cheeriness that was almost de rigueur–the strange fact remains that the only sort of supernaturalism the Victorians allowed to their imaginations was a sad supernaturalism. They might have ghost stories, but not saints' stories. They could triple with the curse or unpardoning prophecy of a witch, but not with the pardon of a priest. They seem to have held (I believe erroneously) that the supernatural was safest when it came from below. When we think (for example) of the uncountable riches of religious art, imagery, ritual and popular legend that has clustered round Christmas through all the Christian ages, it is a truly extraordinary thing to reflect that Dickens (wishing to have in The Christmas Carol a little happy supernaturalism by way of a change) actually had to make up a mythology for himself. G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature A Selection from Rabbi Ben Ezra By Robert Browing Grow old along with me!The best is yet to be,The last of life, for which the first was made:Our times are in His handWho saith "A whole I planned,Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!' Book List: God's Funeral by A. N. Wilson Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
In the third installment of this new educational series, Noe & Shelly Valladolid look back at the first World's Fairs. More importantly, the impact that these ambitious expositions had on society In this episode, listeners will learn about: Where in London was the Great Exposition staged Which structure at the Great Exposition inspired a popular WDW restaurant What marvels from the Victorian Age were on display during this 5-month-long event Which event held in France just four years later attempted to throw the Great Exposition of London into eclipse Why is the Palais d'Industrie considered Napoleon III's “ego building” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back to The Literary Life Podcast and the continuation of our series on Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. Angelina and Thomas open with their commonplace quotes which lead into the book discussion. Angelina kicks it off with a comparison between the work of the Brontës and Jane Austen's writing which will continue throughout the conversation. Thomas and Angelina also look at the expectations of Victorians for courtship and marriage, the ways Anne Brontë weaves this tale as a variation on other themes, the true woman versus the false woman, and more! Check out the schedule for the podcast's summer episodes on our Upcoming Events page. In August, Angelina Stanford will guide us through the world of Harry Potter as she shows us its literary influences and its roots in the literary tradition. You can sign up for that class or any of the HHL Summer Classes here. Sign up for the newsletter at HouseofHumaneLetters.com to stay in the know about all the exciting new things we have coming up! Commonplace Quotes: The ideal of education is that we should learn all that it concerns us to know, in order that thereby we may become all that it concerns us to be. In other words, the aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. Values are facts apprehended in their relation to each other, and to ourselves. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph Inge, from The Church in the World But while Emily Brontë was as unsociable as a storm at midnight, and while Charlotte Brontë was at best like that warmer and more domestic thing, a house on fire–they do connect themselves with the calm of George Eliot, as the forerunners of many later developments of the feminine advance. Many forerunners (if it comes to that) would have felt rather ill if they had seen the things they foreman. This notion of a hazy anticipation of after history has been absurdly overdone: as when men connect Chaucer with the Reformation; which is like connecting Homer with the Syracusan Expedition. But it is to some extent true that all these great Victorian women had a sort of unrest in their souls. And the proof of it is that… it began to be admitted by the great Victorian men. G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature The Recommendation By Richard Crashaw These houres, and that which hovers o're my End, Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend. Take Both to Thine Account, that I and mine In that Hour, and in these, may be all thine. That as I dedicate my devoutest Breath To make a kind of Life for my lord's Death, So from his living, and life-giving Death, My dying Life may draw a new, and never fleeting Breath. Book List: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
On this week's episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina and Thomas continue their series of discussions on Anne Brontë's novel Agnes Grey. They open the conversation about this novel with some thoughts on the differences between Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre and Anne and Charlotte Brontë. Angelina poses the question as to whether this novel crosses the line into didacticism or if it stays within the purpose of the story and the art. In discussing the education of Agnes' charges in these chapters, Angelina has a chance to expand upon the upbringing of Victorian young women. She and Thomas discuss the position of the curate and Agnes' spiritual seriousness, as well as the characters of Weston and Hatfield as foils for each other. Thomas closes out the conversation with a question as to whether Agnes Grey is as memorable a character as Jane Eyre or Catherine Earnshaw and why that is. Check out the schedule for the podcast's summer episodes on our Upcoming Events page. In July, Dr. Jason Baxter will be teaching a class titled “Dostoyevsky's Icon: Brothers Karamazov, The Christian Past, and The Modern World”, and you can sign up for that or any of the HHL Summer Classes here. Sign up for the newsletter at HouseofHumaneLetters.com to stay in the know about all the exciting new things we have coming up! Commonplace Quotes: In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts/ Is not the exactness of peculiar parts;/ ‘Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,/ But the joint force and full result of all. Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Criticism” In any case, it is Charlotte Brontë who enters Victorian literature. The shortest way of stating her strong contribution is, I think, this: that she reached the highest romance through the lowest realism. She did not set out with Amadis of Gaul in a forest or with Mr. Pickwick in a comic club. She set out with herself, with her own dingy clothes and accidental ugliness, and flat, coarse, provincial household; and forcibly fused all such muddy materials into a spirited fairy-tale. G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature My Heart Leaps Up By William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I beholdA Rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!The Child is father of the man;And I wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety. Book List: Ten Novels and Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham 1984 by George Orwell The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Charlotte Mason Hugh Walpole George Eliot Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
Today on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks begin a new book discussion series covering Anne Brontë's Victorian novel Agnes Grey. This week they are giving an introduction to the social and literary climate in which Anne was writing, as well as discussing chapters 1-5 of the book. Thomas shares a little information on Utilitarianism, and Angelina talks about how this affected the literature of the Victorian period. She also points out that the Brontës were writing in the medieval literary tradition rather than the didactic or realistic style, and as such we should look for symbols and metaphors in their journey of the soul. Thomas and Angelina explore the background of the Brontë sisters, discuss the position of the governess in this time period, and compare Agnes Grey to other governess novels. Diving into the first five chapters of this book, Angelina and Thomas look at the life of young Agnes Grey and at her family. In treating the characters in the early chapters, they talk about Agnes Grey's first forays into the life of the governess, the horrid children in her care, their irresponsible parents, and more. Check out the schedule for the podcast's summer episodes on our Upcoming Events page. If you haven't heard about Cindy Rollins' upcoming Summer Discipleship series, you can learn more about that over at MorningTimeforMoms.com. In June Mr. Banks will be teaching a 5-day class on St. Augustine, and in July Dr. Jason Baxter will be teaching a class on Dostoevsky. Also, don't miss the launch the HHL publishing wing, Cassiodorus Press! Sign up for the newsletter at HouseofHumaneLetters.com to stay in the know about all the exciting new things we have coming up! Commonplace Quotes: Truth is the trial of itself,/ And needs no other touch. Ben Jonson The previous literary life of this country had left vigorous many old forces in the Victorian time, as in our time. Roman Britain and Mediæval England are still not only alive but lively; for real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. Even when we improve we never progress. For progress, the metaphor from the road, implies a man leaving his home behind him: but improvement means a man exalting the towers or extending the gardens of his home. G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature Ganymede By W. H. Auden He looked in all His wisdom from the throneDown on that humble boy who kept the sheep,And sent a dove; the dove returned alone:Youth liked the music, but soon fell asleep. But He had planned such future for the youth:Surely, His duty now was to compel.For later he would come to love the truth,And own his gratitude. His eagle fell. It did not work. His conversation boredThe boy who yawned and whistled and made faces,And wriggled free from fatherly embraces; But with the eagle he was always willingTo go where it suggested, and adoredAnd learnt from it so many ways of killing. Book List: George MacDonald Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Adam Bede by George Eliot Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier The Infernal World of Bramwell Brontë by Daphne Du Maurier Thomas Hardy Villette by Charlotte Brontë Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Esther Waters by George Moore Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
Available For One Week Only! Originally published on Patreon on Feb 13, 2023 "Highgate cemetery was one of the first large garden cemeteries built during the industrialization of London. Over the years it's had its ups and downs, from being a sought-after luxury cemetery to an abandoned, overgrown haunt of tramps and adolescents. It was even the scene of a possible vampire sighting. In this episode we discuss the history of Highgate."
Topics: The king of subprime car loans, Don Hankey, stepped forward to offer Trump his $175 million bond — but will he even be allowed to pay it? State Attorney General Letitia James is questioning whether Hankey's insurance group, Knight Company, is qualified to issue bonds in New York and that's even if the funds are legitimate. Following the Supreme Court's mention of the Comstock Act, Sami and V dive deep into 19th century moralist Anthony Comstock, uncovering his motivations for creating the 1873 Comstock Act, and how Republicans are leveraging the act to restrict abortion access. Along the way, we'll also learn about V's deep love for the Victorian Age. And, over in Michigan, Representative Elissa Slotkin holds a slender lead over the Trump-supported former Representative Mike Rogers in the state's contested Senate race. Elissa's campaign has been promoting her “Opportunity Agenda,” which aims to achieve health equity, gun safety in schools, and more funding for child care centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode, we debunk the persistent myth that the Victorian Age in England was one of total sexual repression. The facts are much more interesting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/revisionisthistory/support
Pantomimes, pleasure gardens, bare-knuckle boxing and political upheaval. Christmas in the 18th and early 19th centuries was a very different affair from the peaceful family celebration of the Victorian Age. Georgian Christmas was raucous, rowdy and time for a bit of fun before heading back to work.In this seasonal episode, Dan delves into the festivities of London's working classes with Footprints of London tour guide Rob Smith who has a fascinating anecdote for just about person who's called the city home. From an 18th-century showman who would put two joints of beef under his arms and walk into an oven - cooking them and miraculously not himself - to Joey Grimaldi, the world's first clown and the men who tried to start a revolution at a cake shop, Christmas in Regency London was surprising, lewd and quite extraordinary.You can book one of Rob's tours here: https://footprintsoflondon.com/live/guides/rob-smith/Produced by Mariana Des Forges, Rob Smith and edited by Dougal PatmoreDiscover the past with exclusive history documentaries and ad-free podcasts presented by world-renowned historians from History Hit. Watch them on your smart TV or on the go with your mobile device. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code DANSNOW sign up now for your 14-day free trial We'd love to hear from you! You can email the podcast at ds.hh@historyhit.com.You can take part in our listener survey here.
Science Fiction means so many things all at once. It is a catalyst for creativity and inquiry, and through its creation of alternate realities, it serves as a mirror to reflect where we are today. The setting is itself a main character in any Sci-Fi story as it is the all-important binding element that makes the story possible. A Sci-Fi show set a few centuries in the future would undoubtedly have to project our path forward and explain how we got to that point, whether it's a positive view of the future, or a totally dystopian one. Or perhaps you like a book with a retro-futuristic setting with an alternative history like Steampunk blending the Victorian Age with fantastic clockwork machines. Or it could depart from anything remotely related to realism in its embrace of science-wizardry. Today we are discussing our Top 5 Sci-Fi Settings. To enhance our discussion, we didn't share our lists with each other and by no means are we experts in this or any other category. We are just a few dudes who like to discuss nonsense. The Top 5 Podcast is hosted by Zach Rancourt, Eric Schoen, and Thomas Lockhart. It is available on Apple, Google, Pandora, Spotify, Amazon, TuneIn, and Podbean. We appreciate your fandom! If you like what you hear, don't forget to rate and subscribe. Your participation helps us immensely! You can also find us on Twitter @podcaststop5. Enjoy! Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/thetop5pod and promo code DBCRAZYPOD to save 20% off anything you order.
Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian Age. His works shone a light on prevalent issues of his era, such as poverty, disease, and inequality, and called for widespread social change. Since Dickens' time, his books have been translated into 150 languages, and have never been out of print. But how did a boy from Portsmouth turn into one of the world's most celebrated literary figures? Why were his words so effective in sparking real societal change? And, as a pillar of Victorian society, did his private life align with his famous public image? This is A Short History Of Charles Dickens. Written by Dan Smith. With thanks to Lucinda Hawksley, author of ‘Dickens and Travel', and great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 (Cambridge UP, 2022), one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat of mass insurrection at home and radical developments in railway transport, communications, religion, literature and the arts. The effects of the new poor law now became visible in the workhouses; a potato blight started in Ireland, heralding the Great Famine; and the Church of England was rocked to its foundations by John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism. What Victorian England became was moulded, says Michael Wheeler, in the crucible of 1845. Exploring pivotal correspondence, together with pamphlets, articles and cartoons, the author tells the riveting story of a seismic epoch through the lives, loves and letters of leading contemporaneous figures. Michael Wheeler is a leading cultural and literary historian and presently a Visiting Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. His many critically acclaimed books include the prize-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (1990), Ruskin's God (1999), The Old Enemies (2006) and St John and the Victorians (2011) – all published by Cambridge University Press – and, most recently, The Athenæum, published by Yale University Press in 2020. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. 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
CW: murder, physcial and sexual violence against women, sex work, detailed descriptions of bodily mutilation. In 1888, a string of brutal murders shocked the residents of London. Just as shocking, the police were unable to find the killer, nicknamed Jack the Ripper. For the 100th epiosde of the Morbid Curiosity Podcast, we present a 3-part episode on Jack the Ripper. In this, part 1, we go over the details of the murders. In part 2, which is for Patrons of the MCP only, we'll discuss the suspects and the thoeries about who the Ripper was. In Part 3, we'll discuss the women who died, and how they might have been connected.
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