Tales of History and Imagination
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Mithridates- The Poison King
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
This week's Tale takes place in 63 BC. The setting, the kingdom of Pontus – a once powerful Black Sea empire – now a region of Eastern Turkey. Mithridates VI Eupator paces, knowing his time is up. Like Hannibal, he spent decades at war with Rome – and like Hannibal he would meet his end like a caged lion. A renowned freedom fighter, he was also a genocidal despot. A paranoid megalomaniac, raised to believe a series of comets and other omens marked him out as a messiah. Saviour of the East. King of Kings. In short, Mithridates was a complex guy
Today, we discuss the Poison King of Pontus.
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Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly. Sound FX were from several free sites downloaded to laptop in 2019. The Mithridates poem is a section from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
I normally save bibliographies for the Patreon, but there is only one source for 95% of this Tale – The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor.
About the Author: Simone Whitlow is an academic, competitive quizzer, songwriter and musician. Her favourite part of A Shropshire Lad is the bit which starts “Into my heart an air that kills, From yon far country blows.” Hell, we all have ‘happy highways where we went, and cannot come again' right?
Transgender, she uses she/her pronouns.
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Admin: It’s About to Get Bumpy…
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Hi all just dropping an admin note between old episodes. Basically, I recorded the first two seasons on a Blue Yeti microphone straight into an old laptop. I then mixed those episodes without headphones…Some of them sound pretty rough. In January 2022 I upgraded my mic, and bought a podcasting console in April 2022. Since then I’ve re-recorded several older episodes. Basically everything from The Pendle Witches onwards is on the new gear, and everything before The Pendle Witches is in the process of being replaced. Update, November 2023: Mithridates, Grace O’Malley, the Jack Parsons two parter, eden ahbez, The Mex Headroom Incident, Spring Heeled Jack, The Campden Wonder and The Miser of Marcham Park are the only episodes in need of re-doing. To date I’ve redone
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Hannibal in Bithynia
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Eilean Mor
The Beast of Gevaudan
Buried Alive!
Nellie Bly
Willie The Wimp (and His Cadillac Coffin)
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Buried Alive! (Re-Upload)
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
This is a re-upload of the original Episode 9, Buried Alive! It’s the same script as in 2020, but recorded with much better gear. I’ll be re-uploading the first 25 or so throughout 2022 and 2023
This week's Tale is a quick, bonus tale. I’ll be back with proper episodes 21st April. Content warning this episode is all about premature burial – and was first posted Halloween 2020.
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