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Bizarre to Brutal

Bizarre to Brutal

By: Sparky The Creative
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"Bizarre to Brutal" features true crimes and scandals from the Victorian era of history. The reports are taken directly from a popular tabloid newspaper of the time. You’ll be surprised, amazed and sometimes horrified at the way Victorian journalists tackled stories of crime and scandal without flinching. Travel back through time to the era of Jack The Ripper and Sherlock Holmes.

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Episodes
  • Attack on Her Majesty The Queen

    Attack on Her Majesty The Queen
    Nov 30 2022

    A man appears in court after breaking into a house - his defence is that his father told him to do it in a dream. Another man is charged with ringing a doorbell violently. And Queen Victoria is confronted by an assassin.
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    17 mins
  • Selling a Wife by Auction

    Selling a Wife by Auction
    Nov 23 2022

    More Victorian crime and scandal. A jealous woman wreaks revenge on a man who promised to marry her but changed his mind. And another criminal goes around convincing children to steal from their parents. But, in one of the most astounding stories we’ve ever seen, a husband sells his wife at an auction (and he’s not the first to do this in Victorian times).
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    15 mins
  • Robbing The Dead

    Robbing The Dead
    Nov 16 2022

    Grave robbers were still very much at work in 1870, busy robbing the dead. A local community sets out to thwart them. In other news, when a monkey steals your baby, how do you get it back? A gardener, minding his own business, is shot by his assistant, in a seemingly random attack. And a woman walking over Westminster Bridge had no idea she was about to end up in the River Thames.
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    19 mins
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I enjoyed these tales and a glimpse into our past. Great production and nicely read.

Chilling and brilliantly told

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