Is true crime our latest obsession, or just history's oldest guilty pleasure?A brand-new exploration of historical true crime through the ages, exposes why we should be looking over our shoulders to the past with bestselling historian, Rebecca Rideal & Archaeologist, Professor Raksha Dave.Together they will unpack the buried stories of crime and uncover the darkest chapters of criminal history, from victims and investigators to perpetrators and punishments.Using archaeology as a key investigative tool, Raksha and Rebecca will uncover how a dig separates fact from folklore. Such as Otzi the Iceman - a body from 3300BCE discovered in 1991...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 42:41
August 1984. Deep inside a peat-cutting works on Lindow Moss in Cheshire, workers were feeding ancient peat onto a conveyor belt when something unexpected appeared. A human foot.…
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When we think about detectives, Sherlock Holmes is probably the first image that comes to mind. The iconic deerstalker hat, the pipe, the looming presence and fierce intellect.…
Oct 23, 2026 · 38:43
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Oct 16, 2026 · 31:36
For more than a century, the Arctic was assumed to be keeping Franklin's secret; but it wasn't. The native Inuit people who lived there had been telling the story all along. And…
Oct 9, 2026 · 39:40
London, 1848. Three years have passed since Sir John Franklin and 128 officers and men sailed into the Arctic, in search of the Northwest Passage. No letters, no survivors, no…
Oct 2, 2026 · 39:14
It’s the 19th of July 1692 and thirty-nine year old Sarah Good, is the youngest of five women being trundled through Salem Village to a hill on the outskirts of the settlement.…
Sep 25, 2026 · 39:38
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Sep 18, 2026 · 31:21
It's September 1991, two hikers in the Alps believe they’ve stumbled across the body of a climber who’d lost his way. He lies face-down in the ice. His arm caught awkwardly…
Sep 11, 2026 · 54:23
11.39pm, 14 April 1912: A grand new Ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, cruises across the North Atlantic. It’s 4 days into a weeklong voyage from Southampton to New York. Most of the…
Sep 4, 2026 · 33:33
This story begins not on a battlefield, but beneath one of the most prestigious colleges in the world. In 2008, excavations at St John’s College, Oxford uncovered a mass grave of…
Sep 4, 2026 · 39:14
We tend to think about serial killers as being a modern phenomenon, but in France during the Hundred Years War, we find the story of a monster straight out of a horror film. A…
Aug 26, 2026 · 1:30
The Crime Desk presents Buried Evidence, a new weekly podcast where history meets true crime, unearthing the murders, mysteries and scandals of the past. Hosted by historian and…
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