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Send us Fan Mail Nicola Stevenson was a 39 year old mother who was registered as being disabled. She had moved to Lewes in East Sussex in 2018 and was given allocated a council flat by the Lewes Council at Landport Estate in the town. Nicola was prescribed pain relief medication and also used alcohol and class A drugs, Nicola was described as a feisty and positive character who soon made friends i...

Send us Fan Mail A rather unusual case here which comes from the journals of the Society of Psychical Research. Edgar Vandy drowned while on a day out with friends on a Sussex Estate in the summer of 1933. The inquest recorded accidental death but Edgar's brothers were unhappy with the verdict and employed mediums to try to ascertain the truth of what happened that day which seemed to suggest...

Send us Fan Mail Part 5 of the 'Performance' series. An examination of the Police investigation into a serial killer who targeted female sex workers in  1960s London. It is suggested that a well known celebrity of the time could have been responsible but was protected by freemasonry and corrupt police who were blackmailing him. The investigation giving an idea of the time that the film w...

Send us Fan Mail This is the fourth podcast in the series about the background to the film 'Performance'. It is about the Rolling Stones contribution and their situation during the making of the film. How Jagger and Jones became part of the 'Chelsea set'. Police and media collusion and corruption, MI5 and FBI trying to convict the Rolling Stones to prevent them influencing youn...

Send us Fan Mail London in the 1950s & 60s was changing, the media said it was becoming 'Swinging London'? In reality new elites were challenging the old establishment.  David Litvinoff was involved with the Chelsea set and the worlds of music, art and crime. It was his contribution to the film Performance that connected the London Underworld to the London Underground, He knew the Kr...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 1 of a series of podcasts that are based on the British Movie Performance. A film which the film historian David Thompson said that the film was not as good as the stories about it. Well the film has a Rotten tomatoes score of 85% and has had a number of books and articles written about it. It is about London in the late 1960s when the swinging fashionable crowd mixed...

Send us Fan Mail Performance was the film made in 1968 where it was said that the Underground met the Underworld. In this podcast we examine the life of an underworld enforcer who was also an actor, who virtually played himself in the film. John Bindon, a larger than life character who was a violent thug, an associate of the Krays and had the Queen's sister Princess Margaret as a lover.

Send us Fan Mail 1935 True Crime,  Bournemouth, a female muscian unhappily married has an affair with aToy boy, her husband is a famous architect  and everything goes wrong. An unhappy story  with an unhappy ending; in fact a desperately unhappy ending which was not fair. A murder at Bournemouth /Boscombe Manor road. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the last episode of Series 2, we are going back to 31st December 1910. A murder of a Jewish immigrant was thought to be associated with a Jewish secret society wanting a revolution in the UK. What actually resulted was a confused court case eagerly reported by the newspapers where a number of colourful East End characters seemed incapable of telling the truth. The case pla...

Send us Fan Mail Ronnie Knight is in his 80s now, born in poverty in the East End of London to a family that became a well known criminal family with close links to the Kray family, he denies that he was ever a gangster but he was involved in crime, almost as today youngster on estates today are forced into gangs. Ronnie and his brothers were the last of what could be called the 'old school g...

Send us Fan Mail Two possible cases of retrocognition are considered in this podcast, the events both occurred in 1942. The Dieppe raid was possibly 'relived' in an audio hallucination by two woman in 1952. The Queen Mary / Curacao collision was another audio hallucination by marine engineer John Smith in 1971. The 'haunted' Queen Mary liner was investigated by parapsychologist...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about the changing nature of London's street gangs, country lines, increasing violence and how young people are recruited to the gangs. There is an examination of the gangs of Waltham Forest as an example of the problems faced in one London borough. Some gangs try to concentrate on making money from trading in drugs but with so much competition the gangs have...

Send us Fan Mail Jodie Chesney was a teenager in her last year at sixth form college doing her A levels. It was a Friday night in March 2019, hanging with friends in her local park, a geeky, Gothy group of friends playing rock music on their phones.  Their world was about to clash with small time drug dealers speaking American street gang jive slang and trying to act like big shot gangsters armed...

Send us Fan Mail Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible motivations. This is part 2 of the story.

Send us Fan Mail Although Borley rectory is well known for its alleged paranormal activity, this podcast mainly examines the people who lived there and the people involved in reporting unexplained phenomena at the rectory and their possible motivations. This is part 1 of the story.

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten podcast. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this podcast.

Send us Fan Mail Nicolas Van Hoogstraten. Ruthless businessman, narcissistic tycoon, dangerous gangster or pantomime villain. This story is something of a ramble and has a bit of everything, murder, conspiracy, state of the nation concerns. This is part 1 of the Nicholas Van Hoogstraten story.

Send us Fan Mail Two pointless deaths in Brighton carried out by members of the same family in Brighton. The Weaver family who had a reputation and were well known by the police. Murders that happened for no good reason and were accidental in many ways. But macho aggressive behaviour does costs lives.

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of An Adventure. Part 1 of An Adventure, Versailles time slip  tells of  perhaps the best known example of retrocognition. An Adventure was a book telling of the experience of Moberly and Jourdain while at Versailles. This episode tells of the women's theory what had happened to them, a critic of their views and examines other strange experiences some people ha...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1, this describes Perhaps the best known example of retrocognition, ' An Adventure' was a best selling book in 1911 describing the experience of two women that visited Versailles and seemed to have travelled back in time. They told their story and were told that historically they were wrong, they could not have seen what they claimed.  However, these women were dete...

Send us Fan Mail One of the famous English poison  murders happened 100 years ago, an age when George Orwell said the stories of certain murders gave pleasure to the British public. This is one of the poison murders, thought to have started in 1920, the court case was in 1922.  On the Welsh - English border in Hay on Wye, a solicitor Herbert Armstrong decided that the use of arsenic would solve so...

Send us Fan Mail Barbara Gaul was murdered with a shotgun blast in the car park of the Black Lion hotel, which is virtually the first building you come across when entering Brighton on the A23 road from London. Roy and Keith Edgeler from the East End of London were convicted of the murder which was  a contract killing, although the Edgeler brothers were too frightened to say who had organised the...

Send us Fan Mail Three stories, none long enough to justify a full episode, none that unsettling, but all have a certain interest. The first tells of people that had premonitions of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, the second tells of the Ferry Bridge Inn ghost, claimed to be the oldest haunted Inn of England. The third is a curious little story from Newhaven in East Sussex.

Send us Fan Mail Prostitution and vice in London was controlled by Maltese gangsters after World War 2, a trade considered dishonourable at the time by the home grown villains. The Messina family   dominated up until the early 1950s. The police were reluctantly forced to take action against them and in the vacuum left, Bernie Silver came to lead the remnants of the Maltese forming them into the Sy...

Send us Fan Mail This is now a forgotten murder and a possible miscarriage of justice from 1911. It was a famous case of the time and featured in George Orwell's essay 'Decline of the English murder' when everybody seemed to read about and have an opinion of the murder cases of the day.  It was considered that Frederick Seddon would have escaped his sentence if he refused to give ev...