Rogues Gallery Uncovered

Jul 09 2024 60
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Rogues Gallery Uncovered, the podcast of bad behaviour in period costume. 
True (ish) stories of history’s most fascinating and scandalous men and women.
From Casanova and Mata Hari to Errol Flynn and Rasputin, it’s a history podcast with a difference. Join lovable rogue Simon Talbot every fortnight for bawdy, colourful tales of ‘Libertines, Lotharios and Complete Bastards.’  It’s funny, shocking, shameless and doesn’t mention Jane Austin once!It’s not suitable for kids or easily offended grownups.   

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Drunk in Charge of an Enormous Penis - Grigori Rasputin 1915

Jul 09 2024 21 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageGrigori Rasputin, everyone's favourite irresistible, indestructible, mad monk is having a night on the town in Moscow.He's a controversial, mystic, healer and holy man but the Romanov family love him so he can get up to all sorts of rude, vodka fuelled high jinks. Why did Tsarina Alexandra like him so much?Why did Tsar Nicholas II dislike him?Was Raspu

Dead Exciting - George Selwyn 1757

Jun 25 2024 18 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageA necrophiliac in Paris!Join 18th-century England's most deviant politician ( and that's saying something) on a fun-packed mini-break to the French capital.With wit, cross-dresser and execution enthusiast George Selwyn. Who was Robert Damiens?How many horses does it take to pull a man apart?Why did Georgian high society pay good money to sit in a field

Your Money or Your Wife - Claude Duval 1670

Jun 11 2024 18 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageHigh fashion meets highway robbery with the 17th century's most lusted-after gentleman thief, Claude Duval.It's a flamboyantly dressed tale of rampant flirting, lewd piccolo playing and an appalling French accent. Why was France full of posh Englishmen in the 1650s?How many masked women can visit one man's prison cell?Can you dance provocatively in sti

ErotoManiac - Henry Spencer Ashbee 1901

May 28 2024 29 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text Message In an extra rude episode, meet 19th-century England's most prolific and energetic smut collector.Henry Spencer Ashbee.Listener discretion is advised - Those Victorians could be spicy! Just how much X-rated material could one gentleman collect?Who were his famous friends?Did he go blind?Was he the mysterious author of erotic classic "My Secret Life"?Wa

You Dirty Old Man - William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry 1808

May 14 2024 23 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageFind out why 69 is just a number to Regency England's most rampant geriatric - William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, 'Old Q'.It's a heart warming tale of hot chocolate, comfy blankets, early nights and Greek-themed orgies. How does a man in his 80s 'please' the ladies?How fast can you drive a carriage?Why should you never accept a milkshake from th

Sodomy Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Tomas de Torquemada 1492

Apr 30 2024 17 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageNo one expects the 15th century's biggest party pooper, Tomas de Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.It’s a tortuous tale of a controversial historical figure, religious persecution, the Catholic Church, heretics, the Dominican Order and the Spanish monarchy.But I’ve tried to keep it lighthearted.What should you do if you see someone wearing fan

Teenage Rampage - William Hickey 1768

Apr 16 2024 20 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageTake a walk on the very wild side in 18th century London with teenage "Lad About Town," William Hickey.There's sex, booze, fighting and disrespecting of elders - what's the youth of yesterday coming to?It’s a nostalgic rose-tinted saunter through the taverns and brothels of Georgian England with a young man who would become famous for his diaries and

Filming, Floating & F*****g Around! - Errol Flynn & David Niven 1936

Apr 02 2024 18 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageAfter a bit of a break, Rogues Gallery Uncovered returns. Join Hollywood's most misbehaved duo, David Niven and Errol Flynn, as they water ski and roister through the 1930s - leaving a trail of broken hearts and heads in their wake.It’s a swashbuckling romp through The Golden Age of Hollywood as these two movie legends stretch the bonds of their frie

Stop it, or you'll go blind....and then die!! - Anti-Masturbation 1867

May 16 2023 22 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageKeep your hands where everyone can see them while attending this stern lecture warning of the physical and moral decay brought about by the 19th century’s most destructive social contagion - MASTURBATION!!It’s a wrist achingly provocative tale of madness, blisters, breakfast cereals, female hysteria and abstinence. Are there any life and sanity thr

Dildos, Defamation & Disguise - John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester 1673

Apr 12 2023 27 mins  
Send Me A Roguish Text MessageRamble on in search of filth with Restoration England's most promiscuous, booze addled, royalty offending, saucy genius - Restoration poet and libertine, John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester.It's a disgraceful double-ended tale of Italian sex woodwork, highway robbery, park abuse and rhyming couplets. How many years did Rochester spend permanently drunk?H