Penny Dreadful Variety Hour
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Official account of Penny Dreadful Variety Hour, a weekly podcast that's like an early Victorian variety show. https://pulp-lit.com/spotify
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2.07: Sweeney Todd and the loan shark. — A very angry young profligate. — A racy flash song about a buz-napper and a bawd!
The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode
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July 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Another episode is up and ready! open.spotify.com/episode/0E4M...
New channel art! Very excited about it.
July 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New channel art! Very excited about it.
Another episode on the feed! open.spotify.com/episode/2ADc...
2.05: Lord Lionel's indecent proposal ... Evil Count Lerno's moneymaking scheme ... the perils of raising the dead ... a robber's song!
The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode
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July 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Another episode on the feed! open.spotify.com/episode/2ADc...
Another Sunday night, another new episode! Johanna nearly provokes Sweeney Todd — Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped in the robbers' roost — Lord Londonderry sees a ghost!
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2.04: Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped like a rat! Or is he? — Lord Londonderry in the haunted castle! — Johanna rushes to her destiny!
The Penny Dreadful Radio Hour: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode
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July 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Another Sunday night, another new episode! Johanna nearly provokes Sweeney Todd — Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped in the robbers' roost — Lord Londonderry sees a ghost!
open.spotify.com/episode/4hEf...
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New episode just dropped! open.spotify.com/episode/44Sg...
2.03: Escape from the murder-house? — A pious predator unmasked. — The Admiral vs. the Vampire!
The Penny Dreadful Radio Hour: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode
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June 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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OTD 1815 & morning after the day before at Waterloo. What happened to the thousands of dead men & horses? Who cleaned up & where did all the stuff go? What about the wounded? What fate befell the battlefield & its dead in the years to come? Read all about it in these 3 articles:
June 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
OTD 1815 & morning after the day before at Waterloo. What happened to the thousands of dead men & horses? Who cleaned up & where did all the stuff go? What about the wounded? What fate befell the battlefield & its dead in the years to come? Read all about it in these 3 articles:
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The brick (for which the town was famous) built gatehouse of Beverley North Bar dates from the early 15th century. The town was wealthy, in part due to its religious community. The area inside the gate was known as North Bar Within. This super Raphael Tuck and Sons image dates to 1921.
June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The brick (for which the town was famous) built gatehouse of Beverley North Bar dates from the early 15th century. The town was wealthy, in part due to its religious community. The area inside the gate was known as North Bar Within. This super Raphael Tuck and Sons image dates to 1921.
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Reminder for all UK authors and illustrators to register any new books for PLR by the end of June in order to have them included in the 2024/25 count. If you're not signed up, do it! You could - and should - be getting paid every time a book you contributed to is borrowed from a library!
Public Lending Right (PLR): Eligibility & Registration - The British Library
PLR is a legal right to payment for eligible book contributors when a book is borrowed from public libraries. Check if you're eligible and register. Learn more.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reminder for all UK authors and illustrators to register any new books for PLR by the end of June in order to have them included in the 2024/25 count. If you're not signed up, do it! You could - and should - be getting paid every time a book you contributed to is borrowed from a library!
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Our knowledgeable 18th century colleagues can always be relied upon to answer these tricky questions!
Could a dead person be elected to #Parliament?
Yes - or at least this was the case in May 1728, when Sidney Wortley Montagu was declared the winning candidate in the disputed 1727 general election return for Peterborough, even though he had died six months earlier.
#HistParl
Yes - or at least this was the case in May 1728, when Sidney Wortley Montagu was declared the winning candidate in the disputed 1727 general election return for Peterborough, even though he had died six months earlier.
#HistParl
June 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our knowledgeable 18th century colleagues can always be relied upon to answer these tricky questions!
Starting Season Two tonight! Alas, the new music is not doing it for me, I'll have to tweak that next time. Great Dreadfuls this time though. open.spotify.com/episode/3nKa...
2.001: Lady Edith contemplates a fatal divorce. — Robbers and mace coves and thieves, oh my! (Season 2 Premier episode!)
The Penny Dreadful Story Show: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode
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June 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Starting Season Two tonight! Alas, the new music is not doing it for me, I'll have to tweak that next time. Great Dreadfuls this time though. open.spotify.com/episode/3nKa...
HELLO WORLD! Yup, it's our first Bsky post! [EDIT: Technically second - oops wrong link!] Last night Episode 30 went live. Featuring Highwayman Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, evil Colonel Bertrand, and our latest addition, ballet-girl Rose Mortimer! open.spotify.com/episode/4GAL...
030: Dick Turpin cries "Stand and deliver!" ... the bitter fruit of Lady Edith's secret marriage ... two more ballet-girls threatened with a Fate Worse Than Death! (Mid-Victorian Edition)
The Penny Dreadful Story Show: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode
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June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
HELLO WORLD! Yup, it's our first Bsky post! [EDIT: Technically second - oops wrong link!] Last night Episode 30 went live. Featuring Highwayman Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, evil Colonel Bertrand, and our latest addition, ballet-girl Rose Mortimer! open.spotify.com/episode/4GAL...