The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

223 Grand Guignol Part Two: Tales of Terror!

Posted October 30, 2020 • 00:21:08

It’s not enough to just talk about the history of the Grand Guignol. We also want to bring you a little bit of what it was like to take in a night...

222 Grand Guignol Part One: Theater of Horror!

Posted October 25, 2020 • 00:29:37

The Grand Guignol was a small Parisian theater which regularly produced original works of horror. The theater, which operated from 1897 until 1962,...

221 Sasha Abramsky on Lottie Dod

Posted September 18, 2020 • 00:27:21

Sasha Abramsky is a journalist and author whose new book Little Wonder tells the story of Lottie Dod, the modern world’s first female sporting celebrity....

220 Michel Paradis on Last Mission to Tokyo

Posted August 7, 2020 • 00:32:12

Today’s show is a conversation with Michel Paradis, attorney and author of Last Mission to Tokyo. Early in WWII the U.S. launched the Doolittle Raids...

219 Patient Zero

Posted July 11, 2020 • 00:22:55

In 1987 journalist Randy Shilts chronicled the early years of AIDS in North America in his book And the Band Played On. Shilts’ reporting was mostly...