Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on History Hit

Watch this video and more on History Hit

Hair-Raising History

Who Wasn't Jack the Ripper? (Podcast Series)

1m 20s
4K badge

Up Next in Documentaries

  • A Strange Bit of History

    We were delighted to have comedy royalty on the podcast. Omid Djalili talked to me about one of his earliest stage creations, first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1993. Over the next four years it was performed 109 times in 10 different countries. The backdrop of this epic storytel...

  • Edinburgh New Town: From Squalor to S...

    Alice Loxton uncovers the thrilling transformation of Edinburgh, a city which was once the most overcrowded, dangerous and pungent cities in the whole of Europe, where tottering medieval tenement blocks were surrounded by a bubbling cesspit of raw sewage. With the city bursting at its seams - and...

  • The Edinburgh Murders: Burke and Hare

    Join Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney on the dark streets of Edinburgh as they investigate the infamous nineteenth century case of Burke and Hare: Scotland’s most notorious serial killers.

    William Burke and William Hare murdered for money, killing in cold blood at least 16 times, so that they ...

18 Comments