The Gilded Gentleman history podcast takes listeners on a cultural and social journey into the mansions, salons, dining rooms, libraries and theatres including the worlds above as well as below stairs of America's Gilded Age, France's Belle Epoque and late Victorian and Edwardian England. thegildedgentleman.com

A weekly podcast that reads out ghost stories, horror stories, and weird tales every week. Classic stories from the pens of the masters Occasionally, we feature living authors, but the majority are dead. Some perhaps are undead. We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. L ...

TableTop Theater is D&D podcast set in an Edwardian age

Michael Portillo explores the cultural, political and economic upheaval forgotten in the familiar images of Edwardian and Georgian calm before the brutal shock of the Great War

Fairyland was an amusement arcade and shooting gallery located at 92 Tottenham Court Road in London, between 1909 and 1921. This podcast is the true story of how Fairyland was connected to three historical events: an assassination seen as one of the first acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement, a plan to kill the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland by Suffragettes, and a murder that changed criminal case law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Court_Road#Early_hi ...

My great grandfather’s book scandalous novel, ‘The Wager’ caused an enormous stir upon its initial release in 1919. The book’s content invited comparisons in The Times to ‘the depravities of Wilde, absent his wit’. A modern audience may better appreciate it's follies.

Days of Horror is a podcast site delving into Victorian (and Edwardian) England and maybe the odd story from abroad. Detailing stories of murders, events and disasters that may have long since been forgotton.

On the night of April 14, 1912, in the last hours before the Titanic struck the iceberg, passengers in all classes were enjoying unprecedented luxuries. Innovations in food, drink, and decor made this voyage the apogee of Edwardian elegance. This series looks at individual accounts of tragedy and survival from the figures that made up the passengers and crew members of the ship. They include millionaires, artists, fashionistas, bakers, cookers, musicians, doctors, and con-men.

‘Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum.’ A series of professionally produced readings of the Reginald stories by Saki (H H Munro). View the world of Edwardian society through the sartorially adapted eye of Saki's solipsistic anti-hero.

In a distant age, magical beings known as the fey stepped from their dying world into this one, benevolently conquering the lands and its people. Now, some 4000 years later, the great City of Ammingrad is a thriving metropolis, melding magic, machines, and magnificence in every aspect. Fey society flourishes in luxury, while humans toil and strive to survive. The vast city spans nearly an entire continent, surrounded by an impenetrable Barrier wall. The city holds thousands of stories. What ...

ZOOM is a new podcast from Focus Features for movie lovers who want to know everything. Fueled by the inquisitive mind of film critic and host Amy Nicholson (“Unspooled,” "Halloween Unmasked"), each episode uses a modern-day movie as a launch pad to discover mind-bending facts about science, technology, and history. What kind of planet might E.T. come from? Do superstar horses “act”? Which Edwardian rules of etiquette could trip up Downton Abbey’s Lord Grantham? Featuring interviews with an ...

Joanne Froggatt (Anna Bates) and Ed Speleers (Jimmy Kent) discuss the Emmy and Golden-Globe winning series ‘Downton Abbey’. Set in a fictional Yorkshire country estate, Downton Abbey depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era. Moderated by Boyd Hilton at the Apple Regent Street in London.

Welcome to the new Edwardian world of Winsphere Jones and his mystery novel character Josephia Blackstone, also known as The Great Condor. Hear the stories of The Great Condor as he solves cases of murder through his remarkable gift to live through the deaths of the victims in their last moments. Suspense, Drama and Mystery collide in this cerebral thriller set in an alternate 1800s American Society. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/winsphere-jones/support

Hi, We're Chrissie and Caroline! We are passionate interior designers who are being asked more and more about what we do and how we do it. In this podcast we will talk about all things interior decoration and design, our process from start to finish, and we will also bring along our design friends to get an insight into the industry.

A Room With a View opens with Two Englishwomen touring Europe. The older one is poor, bossy, old fashioned and a great upholder of what is “proper.” The younger one is less certain of herself, but holds within her the makings of a passionate, emotional and independent woman. In Florence they are allotted a room overlooking a dull courtyard, whereas they had specifically asked for a “view.” A fellow guest offers them his own rooms which offer wonderful vistas of the Arno. The older woman inst ...

Robbery, murder and treason. Strange happenings in quiet English villages. A book critic who happens to find a corpse with its head crushed, an Irish freedom fighter framed for a crime, the disappearance of a valuable coin, a strange dispute over a property claim and a host of other intriguing situations make up the contents of G K Chesterton's collection of short stories The Man Who Knew Too Much. For fans of Chesterton's immortal clerical sleuth, Father Brown, these stories are equally del ...

An authoritative look at recent books that may or may not have shown up on your radar screen. Fiction and non-fiction. Biographies and comic books. Politics and the arts. And quite certainly, no gardening or cookery books. All presented with Tim Haigh’s passion for books and writing. Tim is a widely respected critic, reviewer and broadcaster. Expert without being stuffy, he is noted for the lively intelligence and irreverence he brings to the field.