Best Newhaven Podcasts (2026)

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Strange Stories UK :Journal for the Society of Psychical Research, selected stories 1913-14. 40:37

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Send us a text I thought I would try something a little different for the podcast during 2026. Each month (in conjunction with the usual podcast content) I shall broadcast a podcast giving selected stories from SPR’s journal as they have been bound together (two years at a time) in the British Library. I am starting with the journals from 1913/14 a…

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William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer. 55:58

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Send us a text This is the last podcast of 2025, calling it William Hepper of Chelsea and Brighton. painter, spy, BBC employee and child killer. A case you are unlikely to have ever known about. An unpleasant story, I try not to comment, please listen and make up your own mind.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK, Ghost story for Christmas 2025, The Sauchie Case. 56:07

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Send us a text Podcast 243 and the number eight Christmas podcast. This case took place in Scotland sixty five years ago over the Christmas period of 1960 in Sauchi, Scotland. Skeptics that studied the case concluded that some of the phenomena reported was genuine although they could not be sure of what caused it. I am putting this podcast out on t…

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Strange Stories : A Forgotten Newcastle Murder. 29:59

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Send us a text This is a forgotten murder from a different time. 63 years ago, in the city of Newcastle a minor crime of embezzlement led to a murder. Not so much an exciting story but more of a reflection of the time. Told in one take without editing.

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Strange Stories UK: Nora and Judy fall out, Chiswick 1971. 30:24

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Send us a text Another short podcast while I am away. This is a story of a couple of women who breaking up in London in 1971 had a nasty falling out. Told in one take without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Soho murder and prison. The life of George Pickering 26:21

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Send us a text I am still out of the country so am posting some shorter podcasts to keep the podcast ticking over. This one concerns a case from 1963 going on to 1967. The podcast is recorded in a studio that is soundproofed but visited by various cats and dogs and sometimes other creatures. This podcast is set in Soho, Central London an area where…

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Strange Stories UK: Dorothy Wallis, High Holborn. 21:08

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Send us a text This is a short podcast just to post something while I am away. Daisy / Dorothy Wallis started a business in High Holborn, central London. She lived a quiet home life with her parents, one wonders who would have wished her harm ?By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Chloe and Josh Bashford, Newhaven, Sussex murders 30:16

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Send us a text Chloe and Josh Bashford lived at Newhaven with their four children. Their lives were ended by a family friend who killed them for no understandable reason and then claimed diminished responsibility. The killer will be sentenced on 6 November 2025. This podcast was recorded in one take with no editing with animals in the room.…

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Strange Stories UK : Halloween 2025, BBC live broadcast of Dene Manor haunting. 34:09

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Send us a text This podcast has been produced while I am away, recorded with a borrowed microphone and on a MacBook laptop with which I can't seem to upload any background music. Recorded in one take without editing this is the story off the BBC's first live broadcast from a haunted house. Dene/Dean manor, Meopham, Kent on 10 March 1936.…

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Strange Stories UK: The Strange Story of John Kealty 30:01

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Send us a text John Kealty travelled to Mexico to write a travel guide in the style of a Lonely Planet guide twenty years before they were a thing. It did not end well.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Egon Von Bulow. South London cop killer. 33:16

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Send us a text This case is in living memory. Going back to 1974. Egon Von Bulow's parents came from South America, had him while in the UK, then left him when they went back home. Not an ideal start for him. He grew up anti authoritarian. He shot three policemen and committed other crimes after seemingly losing control during July 1974. He could b…

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Strange Stories UK: Where British soldiers sacrificed to appease public opinion? Suez. 28:14

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Send us a text This case happened in Egypt in 1950, so just about in Living memory. It was a difficult time for British-Egyptian relations. When three soldiers were involved in a murder and tried by a British Court Martial, all politicians tried not to get involved as it was easier for all involved to bury an awkward problem.…

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Strange Stories UK : Ghost Club Chronicles part 1 49:25

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Send us a text A selection of Ghost Club discussion topics 1902-1913. These include : Haunted bottles, Egyptian mummy curses, Mrs Etta Wreight’s seances, The Glastonbury Cup, Whymper’s pony, The Pickwick mystery and the Dorchester incident. My narration is not great and there is a pug called Otto snoring at my feet and it is recorded in one take wi…

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Strange Stories: Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks cases Crawley West Sussex. 31:36

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Send us a text Two recent tragic killings from West Sussex. Both preventable, both the result partly of council cuts. These stories are told in one take in lo-fi. Here are the end stories of Stephanie Marie and Nimroy Hendricks, their lives ending just as they were beginning.By DBC

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Strange Stories : The Reverend Davidson of Stiffkey 39:13

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Send us a text The story of Reverend Davidson, the vicar of Stiffkey dominated the newspapers in the early 1930s. This is the story. The Lion and Albert, By Stanley Holloway was a comic monologue inspired by actual events they had heard about in 1932. The events in this podcast happened in 1937. Nevertheless, I have put the lyrics here for anyone u…

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Strange Stories, Manchester Airport Attack, Amaaz and Amaad court case. 43:45

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Send us a text Brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad were tried for assault at Liverpool Crown Court. The case is of interest due to CCTV footage going viral amid accusations of violent racist behaviour by the police and accusations of two tier policing. This podcast is posted without editing and recorded in one take. Amaaz has been foun…

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Strange Stories: Shepherds Bush/Clifton Suspension Bridge suitcase murders. 36:26

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Send us a text This is a dark and dreadful case, it will be well covered in the news. Told in one take without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories: Sunderland Grandad shots family for Christmas 1966. 36:17

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Send us a text You will not of heard this story before. Christmas Castletown, Sunderland, County Durham. A grandad feeling story for himself and ignored by his family decides to do something about it. December 1966. Recorded in one take without editing.By DBC

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Fractional Moments with Penny Plowman 40:44

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Join local poet Penny Plowman as she discusses and reads from her book 'Fractional Moments', which traces her experience, week by week, of living in Norwich through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.This event was recorded on Tuesday 10th December 2024 at the Norfolk Heritage Centre.By Norfolk Heritage Centre

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Strange Stories UK, Nicholas Prosper, Luton murders. 29:47

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Send us a text This shocking case dates from September 2023. Nicholas Prosper aged 18 had an ambition to become known as a spree killer.By DBC

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Jennifer Abbott, Camden Town murder, June 2025. 15:49

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Send us a text This is a short podcast about a case that was reported this week. Jennifer Abbott was murdered on around 10 June. Police originally thought she had been targeted by drug addicts. But the truth seemed a little more unusual. Recorded in a couple of hours in lo-fi and without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories: John Henry Pull, archaeology and murder in Worthing 42:59

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Send us a text A story that rambles on about the murder of Worthing based amateur archaeologist John Pull on 10 November 1960. He was shot in a bank being raided by teenagers. There is an interesting contrast between John Pull who contributed so much during his life, compared to the nihilistic life style of those responsible for his death. His wann…

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Strange Stories: A Forgotten murder, Middlesborough December 1972 30:37

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Send us a text A forgotten murder that took place in Middlesborough during December 1972. A vicious murder for the sake of a few pounds so the killer could place some bets at the Bookies. RIP Nellie Tighe.By DBC

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London East End Police Murders 1961 39:37

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Send us a text Hello anyone reading or listening to this. Sorry it has been so long since my last pod. This case dates back to 1961 but it is an interesting case, virtually forgotten today. It is set in the East End of London when three policeman were shot by an angry man who had argued with his wife. There is no editing and all is in lo-fi.…

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Fishermen, Bathers and Beach Folk with Helen Murray 52:38

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Join Norwich historian and author, Helen Murray, as she discusses the artist, Juliet Seebohm, and those she captured in her sketchbook of Cromer, 1883-1884, including the bathing machine proprietor, Lucy Miller, Russian professor, Vinogradoff, and eccentric fisherman, ‘Old Billy.’ This talk was recorded at the Norfolk Heritage Centre on the 8th May…

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Healing Heritage with Colin Howey 54:02

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Join Colin Howey, a wellbeing activist who has worked in the heritage sector for over twenty years, as he explores ways in which engaging with historic environments can potentially nurture wellbeing and emotional resilience. Drawing on his experience of leading weekly History Health Walks for the local charity, MensCraft, he will illustrate how ‘fi…

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Strange Stories UK: The truth about the Helen Duncan seances. Portsmouth UK. 46:02

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Send us a text The Helen Duncan seances at Portsmouth during WW2, allegedly called the spirit of a sailor who died aboard the HMS Barham which had been lost with almost 900 onboard. The spirit sailor told Duncan of the loss. It was top secret and nobody was supposed to have knowledge of it, so was this proof that spirits called at the séance were g…

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Strange Stories UK: Pathological jealousy, Sandbanks, Dorset murder. 35:03

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Send us a text Pathological jealousy, Sandbanks, Dorset murder. This case dates from 1972, it is an unknown case, I can find no information about it online. The information comes from files in the National Archives. The podcast is told in one take and there is no editing. I think there is some frog and sparrow noise in the background. I will attemp…

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Strange Stories UK : Parricide, murder at Cannock, Staffordshire. 24:15

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Send us a text I am sure nobody listening would have ever heard about this case. The actual case files will not be released until 2057, 100 years plus after the case so there is something to be kept secret. It is a short podcast, with a lot of padding because there is no information. Recorded in lo-fi in one take with no editing. I will post some p…

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Strange Stories UK: Somerset 1972, Beware the drunken unstable extrovert. 31:31

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Send us a text An unpleasnt story, the court case said a sordid murder, so maybe not for all. Ilchester, Somerset 1972. I will post some photographs on the F/B site.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK : Swinging London, The Bayswater murders. 31:15

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Send us a text A dreadful story about how three young men in their 20s, fashionable Mods found themselves crossing a line and ruining their lives, killing others with a series of bad decisions in the Swinging London of 1968.

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Margaret Ann Rutter 39:56

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In the 51st episode of Lifestory we are joined by the wonderful Margaret Ann Rutter in our Wee Museum studio. At the age of 80, Ann takes us through her family history via a rocky relationship with her Mother, vacations in Cornwall, teaching and lecturing in Edinburgh and a near death experience on the water, as well as everything in between!…

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Strange Stories UK: Strange stories from the Isle of Wight. 1:11:30

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Send us a text This is a disjointed ramble about some stories from the Isle of Wight, mainly from the 1960s. A murder at the Blacksmith's Arms, A murder at Carisbrooke, some possible paranormal stories, some local history and some aircraft crashes on the chalk Downs. I usually read up on the stories making a few notes beforehand and then write them…

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Strange Stories UK : Andrew and Dawn Searle, what is known 6 days after the Les Pesquiès incident 25:15

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Send us a text This is a current case after the bodies of Andrew and Dawn Searle were found in their home in Southern France on Thursday 6 February 2025. This is what is known after six days of investigation. I discuss the possible theories that have been reported in the media.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Double murder in Greenford, London. 30:24

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Send us a text A story based during World War 2, a double murder committed by a younger male who did nothing to help the war effort who seemed totally selfish and was a danger to women. I can only find one other podcast that has covered this podcast, which was Murder Mile, which is a recommended listen. This podcast was recorded in one take and has…

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Strange Stories UK: Motiveless Double Murder at Edgware, North London. 29:41

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Send us a text A rather strange case, a double murder that shocked the UK in 1949 but is almost forgotten about today. 75 years on, we do not know the motive. Told in one take without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Southport Stabbings Cover Up part 2 24:35

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Send us a text This is the third and final podcast on the Southport Stabbings from 29 July last year. The most shocking crime committed in the UK that I can ever recall. This is a consideration of unanswered questions and failures of the Authorities in this matter.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK: Southport Stabbings Cover up part 1 19:31

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Send us a text This short podcast is part one, about the cover up by the authorities over the Southport Stabbings and murders. I like many others feel upset and let down by the authorities about the atrocities they in part allowed to happen in Southport last year. These authorities are all trying hard to deflect and cover up. In this podcast I give…

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Strange Stories UK: Hackney (London) and Upper Mayfield (Derbyshire) hauntings 41:00

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Send us a text Two interesting cases that both went to the law courts in some ways trying to prove that ghosts exist. The first case was in Hackney, East London in 1967, the second was in Derbyshire in the 1990s. This podcast is unedited and recording in one take, and I am not the best at pronouncing or enunciating words, so I apologise for that bu…

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Strange Stories: Maidenhead, tramping and Murder in 1948. 29:23

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Send us a text A little Social and Economic history and a murder in Maidenhead during 1948. This podcast is told in one take without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories: A Double Devon murder, Plymouth 1994 29:30

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Send us a text A case probably long forgotton and not much publicised at the time. The information has been sourced from police records and primary sources. An unpleasant double murder from thirty years ago at Plymouth, Devon. The story is told in one take and without any editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories : Ghost storey for Christmas 2024. Raynham Hall, Norfolk. 46:38

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Send us a text It was at Raynham Hall that what is known as the most famous photograph of a ghost was taken. The background to the photograph being taken was the chaotic family history of the Townshend family of Raynham Hall, Norfolk. This podcast is a ramble, told in one take without editing.By DBC

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Strange Stories UK. Bournemouth Beach murder of Amie Gray, part 1 26:29

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Send us a text This case is being heard at Winchester Crown Court during December 2024. Amie Gray was murdered by Nasen Saadi on Bournemouth Beach as he was curious to known what it would be like to kill someone according to the prosecution. This is a short podcast giving an overview of what is known as the case is live and seems to be attracting s…

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Strange Stories UK: Joe Martin, the drunken bully who liked guns. 32:04

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Send us a text London 1960. East London, petty criminals playing with guns. Warning: This podcast is lo-fi without editing. There is animal noise in the background.By DBC

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Familiar and Stranger Things: Making a Witch in the 17th Century with Danny Buck 33:54

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We all know about witches and their black cats. But why did people in the early modern period fear their neighbours’ cats? Why were they fearful of wax models? How did they protect themselves? Join historian Danny Buck as he explores these questions and more.This talk took place at the Norfolk Heritage Centre in October 2023. Please visit norfolkhe…

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Strange stories. Halloween 2024: some cases briefly considered, Buried Treasure at Glastonbury Abbey? 42:28

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Send us a text All Hallows Eve 2024. There is a brief examination of nine cases. These include the cases of Mr Moss and Mr Munnings and the medium Blanche Cooper. The SPR investigator Guy Lambert was involved in several of these cases all of which are sourced from the Journals and Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research. There is also a se…

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David Flucker 42:05

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Episode 52 of Lifestory sees us joined by the remarkable David Flucker, who is still volunteering for the St Columba's Hospice charity shop in Ocean Terminal at the wonderful age of 102 years old. David begins by taking us back in time to his childhood growing up in a family of fishermen and attending school in Newhaven in the 1920s and on to a won…

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Strange Stories: Chris Kaba Shooting, London 2022 36:36

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Send us a text This case was heard in court this month, October 2024, the media reported on the case which caused much interest, an unarmed black male being shot by an armed police officer in London. The last time such an event attracted so much attention in 2011, there was a week of rioting across the country. To avoid a repetition, the authoritie…

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William Van Der Velde 43:12

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In the 51st edition of Lifestory we are joined by regular Wee Museum visitor William Van Der Velde, who looks back on 78 years of life in Edinburgh. We travel back through his attending David Kilpatrick school up until the age of 14, reaching the ABA boxing finals at the Royal Albert Hall, accompanying Ken Buchanan on his rise to the world champion…

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Strange Stories : The Sea Serpent part 2, sightings, globsters and possible mistaken creatures. 48:43

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Send us a text Sea serpents part 2. This podcasts will consider some well known sea serpent sightings and globsters and also consider some creatures that may have been mistaken for sea serpents. As always this podcast is recorded in one take without editing.By DBC