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A comic podcast investigating historical characters with corkscrew minds, peculiar obsessions, and largely incomprehensible outlooks...
Join writer E O Higgins on this journey of historical whimsy!
Join writer E O Higgins on this journey of historical whimsy!
Update frequency:
every 21 days
Average audio length:
16 minutes
English
United Kingdom
18 episodes
since May 17, 2022
episodic
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'Mad'' Jack Mytton, hailed from a long line of Shropshire squires stretching back more than 500 years. When his father died, at the age of two, he inherited his family estate, including Halston Hall and an annual income equivalent to over £1.7 million.
Raised by his “amiably weak and indulgent” w…
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William Buckland was born in Axminster in 1784, only a few miles away from the fossil-rich coasts of Dorset and East Devon.
Buckland was elected to the Royal Society in 1818, and the same year managed to convince the Prince Regent to endow an additional Readership upon him. This time, in what h…
Donald Sinclair was the unwitting inspiration for Basil Fawlty – the irascible protagonist of the hugely-successful BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers.
Before the Second World War rolled around, Sinclair was an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve. Consequently, in 1939, he was called up for militar…
In 1927, an enigmatic, anarchic group of well-heeled women – calling themselves ‘Ferguson’s Gang’ – got together in secret with the aim of protecting historic buildings in the UK from demolition and conserving landscapes and views of outstanding natural beauty. Though being a bit silly was also fa…
Oliver Reed (1938 - 1999) was an English actor best known for his edgy screen performances, ‘hellraiser’ lifestyle, and ‘orange juice’-fuelled chat show inebriation. Towards the end of his life, the British Film Institute pronounced him the UK’s ‘thirstiest actor’.
Reed’s breakthrough role came as…
Goo goo ga-joob!
Sir George Reresby Sitwell (1860 – 1943) was a Conservative politician, writer, inventor, and largely unsuccessful husband and father.
Despite urging his – much more successful – children to abandon their literary ambitions on the grounds that writing is ruinous to the health, Si…
This human form,
Where I was born,
I now repent...
Caraboo!
On an April morning in 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, encountered an exotically attired – and apparently disoriented – woman, who spoke at him in a way that was both urgent and entirely incomprehensible.
The woman was …
Lieutenant Commander Bill Boaks (1904 - 1986) was a bluff old seaman, decorated war hero, and frequent – though never successful – political campaigner.
An officer in the British Royal Navy, he took part in the sinking of the German battleship, Bismarck; and was awarded the Distinguished Service C…
In this special Halloween episode of The English Eccentric, we’re going into darkness…
Introducing Aleister Crowley, (1875 – 1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer, and occasional haggis hunter.
After a university career spent writing wanky teenage poe…
The first patron-inspired episode of The English Eccentric. This episode was requested by the excellent Claire Rowe.
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (1800-1879), the 5th Duke of Portland, was born in London, the second son of William Bentinck – and known by his middle name ‘John’.
In fact, …
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