Who Did What Now
Episodes
185. The Tuam 796
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
in 1975 two boys are playing out by the ruins of the old Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Galway, ireland. They find a hole filled with very small bones...
Magdalene Laundries - From the Vault
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Magdalene Laundries, operatied under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women and girls, only to exploit and abuse those that were work...
184. Countess Constance Markievicz - Revolutionary Woman
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Countess Constance Markievicz was an aristocrat, suffragist, artist and rebel leader. She was an integral part of te Easter Rising and in Ireland gain...
183. Gisèle Pelicot - To Hell and Back
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gisèle Pelicot, a woman who should have been enjoying her retirement and provincial life had it all come crashing down when se was brought into a poi...
182. Fannie Lou Hamer
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember,Hosted by Katie Charlwo...
181. Katherine Johnson - NASA's Human Computer
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and Bl...
From the Vault - William Dorsey Swann- Queen of Drag
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the beac...
180. Robert Smalls Vs the Confederacy
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to f...
179. Black Dahlia - Part 2
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous ...
178. Black Dahlia - Part 1
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous ...
177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, a...
176. Who Killed the King of Siam?
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the 9th June 1946, a shot rings out from the bedroom of the 20 year old monarch, Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam.And so continues our month ...
175. The Texarkana Moonlight Murders - Part II
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second half the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, where the Phantom Killer spread fear and paranoia through the twin city of Texarkana, leaving...
174. The Texarkana Moonlight Murders - Part I
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1946 the twin city of Texarkana would be haunted for by a masked stalking lovers lanes for his victims. The predator's reign of terror lasted 10 we...
173. Olivier Levasseur - Hidden Pirate Treasure
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Olivier Levasseur showed up at the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy, plundering his way through both sides of the Atlantic, and claiming a booty s...
172. Jeanne de Clisson - Lioness of Brittany
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our Pirate month, get ready for the tale of Jeanne de Clisson, the Lioness of Brittany, who swore revenge against the Kingdom of France and...
171. Captain Morgan - Pirate, Knight & Politician - Part II
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second half of the tale of the infamous Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, the Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccanee...
170. Captain Morgan - Privateer, Pirate & Buccaneer - Part I
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Captain Morgan, the man, not the rum, was a Privateer, or professional pirate during the Buccaneering Era in the Golden Age of Piracy, many tales and ...
From the Vault - Grainne Mhaoil the Irish Pirate Queen
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault - the stpry of Grainne O Maille, the Irish Pirate Queen, a woman who has often been referred to as "Grace" which has never been has her...
169. The Mystery of Little Egypt
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the 1893 World's Fair hit Chicago, the city was aghast and excited by the dance du ventre that shimmied through the Streets of Cairo procession a...
From the Vault - Frank Abagnale Jnr
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault, way back in 2023 I covered the life of one Frank Abagnale Jnr, a conman so sleek and sly that the FBI hunted him across the globe and ...
168. The Blackburn Cult
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1920s Los Angelos Mother May Otis Blackburn and her daughter Ruth Wiland Rizzio headed a cult that promised understandid, salvaion and so much hidd...
The Gunpowder Plot
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.. Please enjoy this...
167. The McDonalds Hot Coffee Case
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!!See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!!Get Your TicketsIn the mid-nineties a woman made headlines all over ...
166. The Salem Witch Trials
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!!See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!!Get Your TicketsIt's time for the most famous witch trial in America...
165. The Vardo Witch Trials
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!!See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!!Get Your TicketsThe witch craze moves North and soon a small islet i...
164. The North Berwick Witch Trials
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON!!!See Who Did What Now LIVE in London this November 2025!!!!Get Your TicketsAs we continue spooky season, how coud we discuss wi...
163. The Pendle Witches
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is the season of the witch and so get ready for England's darkest hour, the trial of the Pendle Witches, in which families are condemned by the tes...
162. Josephine Baker - Death of a Showgirl - Part III
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!Welcome to the final installment in the Josephine Baker Saga: Death of a Showgirl. She lived a full life, fro ...
161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighter - Part II
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Josephine d...
160. Josephine Baker - Part I
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jospehine Bake lived a full life, so much so that it was impossible to fit the bisexual, burlesque icon's story into just one episode! So welcome to p...
159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public M...
158. Liane de Pougy - Courtesan, Princess, Nun
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burlesque's beginnings blossomed out of La Belle Époque, the interwar period between the Franco-Prussian war and WW1. An era where creativity and the...
157. The Battle of Castle Itter
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Castle Itter has to be one of the weirdest battle of the Second World War, it's the SS against Wermacht, the Austrian Resistance, US tro...
156. Amon Göth - The Butcher of Płaszów
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amon Leopold Göth was an SS Schutzstafeeln, the commandant of the Płaszów labour camp in Kraków, Poland and a man that was such a monster that Ste...
155. Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women, located just miles north of Berlin, it was close enough to hand, but far enough to ...
154. Irma Grese - The Hyena of Auschwitz
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irma Grese, the baby faced Beast of Belsen and the Hyena pf Auschwitz who revelled in the pain and sufferening of others, especially if she was the on...
153. Zoot Suit Riots
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Zoot Suit Riot wasn't actually a riot, don't let the name fool you, it is an often overlooked attack on ethnic minorities in Los Angeles which bec...
152. Kate Warne - America's First Female Detective
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Warne, a woman in history we should know more about. The first "lady" detective in the USA, she solved crimes, performed subtrefuge and even thwa...
151 . John Brown - Part II: Heroism is Treason
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the second half of the John Brown tale, we get to hear about Brown's FAFO era, from Bleeding Kansas to the guerilla warfare at Osawatomie, the Batt...
150. John Brown - Part I: American Abolitionist
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Independence Day! It's July 4th which means that it's the perfect time to talk about some classic American history. I was hoping to get this int...
149. Mary Astor - Hollywood and Scandal
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A film noir femme fatale, actress Mary Astor found herself embroiled in a custody battle and "crime of the century!" A scandal so inticing that it kno...
148. King Edward II - Bisexual Chaos Monarch
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
King Edward II had everything he needed in life, a great education, a throne to sit upon, huge tracts of land and a beautiful face... unfortunately hi...
147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Turing is a man who deserved to be celebrated, a cryptanalyst, mathematician and codebreaker who helped win the Second World War, A man who was p...
146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all ove...
145. Louisa May Alcott
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her a...
144. The Marchioness Disaster
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than ...
143. When MIT & Quaker Oats Tested Radiation on Children
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual d...
142. Harmen van den Bogaert
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harmen van den Bogaert was one of the earliest colonisers settlers in 17th Century North America, an ambassador to the Mohawks, he has a bright future...
141. That Time the USA Banned Sliced Bread
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewi...
140. Pope Innocent VIII - Anything but Innocent
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a pope trades prayers for power? When you dig into the wild story of Pope Innocent VIII - a man whose reign was packed with shady de...
139. Alice Crimmins - Mother on Trial
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965 Alice Crimmins became the centre of one of America's most sensational murder trials, accused not only killing her children, but of violating s...
138. Murder Mystery on the High Seas
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a quiet night in July 1896, the merchant ship, the Herbert fuller was sailing swiftly to Argentina, it's hull full of timber to transport. But on t...
137. Bass Reeves - The Real Lone Ranger
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bass Reeves was one of the Frontiers greatest heroes, a skilled tracker, a sharpshooter and a formerly enslaved man who became one of the first Africa...
136. The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a brisk December afternoon, a young socialite vanished without a trace...Hosted by Katie Charlwood I'm on Tour!Get Your TicketsDonate at: ...
135. Joan Crawford
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Crawford, the Hollywood star who loved cheekbones and hated wire hangers. A woman who made her name on the silver screen by dancing, bitching and...
134. Dr Gisella Perl - Abortionist at Auschwitz
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gisella Perl is a woman worth remembering this Women's History Month, a gynaecologist at a time when women, let alone Jewish women, were entering a...
133. America's Forgotten War on Women
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The American Plan was one of the largest violations of women's rights in US history, but it's one of the least remembered. For over half a century tho...
132. Nancy Wake - The Spy With the 5 Million Franc Bounty
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Wake was a member of the French Resistance who was such a pain in the derriere to the Gestapo that they named her the White Mouse. They tried to...
131. Bessie Coleman - First Black Aviatrix
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bessie Coleman defied the odds to become the first African American and Native American woman with a pilot’s license in the world! Denied opportunit...
130. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has to be one of the most shocking and unethical medical experiments in United States history. What was perceived to be a ...
From the Vault - Mary Jane Kelly - The Ripper's Final Victim
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault - The fifth and final canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper...allegedly... was Mary Jane Kelly, a woman who wa...
From the Vault - Catherine Eddowes - The Ripper's Fourth Victim
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault - With the news cycle circling a tenuous link to a Jewish immigrant in London, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, let's focus on what...
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride - The Ripper's Third Victim
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride suffered in life an death, all because of the patriarchal views that existed in the Victorian era and even today, wi...
From the Vault - Annie Chapman - The Ripper's Second Victim
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault - The life of Annie Chapman, another weary woman in Whitechapel who suffered. Her life so often eclipsed by her death, the victims do ...
From the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the Vault catch up on the lives of the five canonical victims of "Jack the Ripper" starting with Mary Ann Nichols, Polly to her friends. The one ...
129. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family pref...
128. The Brothers Kellogg
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before Froot Loops, Special K and Rice Krispies, there was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh Day Adventist whose only fears were meat-based ger...
127. Nuns on the Run - Outlaws and Thieves
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s in the idyllic town of Bruges, Belgium, an order of elderly nuns, the Poor Clares decided to stick two fingers up to the Church and trade...
126. Nellie Cashman - The Angel of Cassier
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cork-born Nellie Cashman emigrated to America and went on to be a total badass, a female prospector, business-owner and genuinely good person. It's a ...
125, The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Lam was a 21 year old Canadian woman whose mysterious death in the infamous Cecil Hotel caused a stir for internet sleuths and conspiracy theori...
124. The Tulsa Race Massacre
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Tulsa Race Massacre 1921, when white rage burned black neighbourhoods to the ground, destroying homes, businesses, communities and lives. For near...
123. Willowbrook State School
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Originally conceived as a haven for children with intellectual disabilities, the Willowbrook State School was instead to become a breeding ground of n...
122. Enriqueta Martí - Vampiress of Barcelona
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Children are disappearing from the streets of Barcelona, the struggling, the lost, the poor, are they being taken from this earth by disease that is r...
121. Agent 355
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who exactly was Agent 355? An alleged member of Washington's infamous Culper Spy Ring, Agent 355 has captured the ideas of espionage aficionados every...
120: The Emu War
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some wars are fought over lands or animals, or the rights to hunt animals, but on this occasion the war was with animals. After World War I Australia ...
119. The Kerry Babies
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The body of a baby boy was discovered on a beach in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Eire. The infant had suffered a violent death, with brutal physical injuri...
118. Lady Mary Grey
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lady Jane Grey the Nine Days Queen had a short and tragic life, but she wasn't the only Grey Sister to have a tough time of it in Tudor England. This ...
117. Lady Katherine Grey
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Like her sister, Lady Jane Grey, the other Grey sister, Katherine was in line to the English throne, this made her a valuable political piece and a th...
116. The Infamous 1904 Olympic Games
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 1904 Olympic Games were without a doubt the weirdest Olympic games in the modern era, but that's what happens when you decide to smash fancy divin...
115. The Stanford Prison Experiment
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological experiments of all time, shame it's a fake...Hosted by Katie Charlwood Part of...
114. Frederick Rutland - Beverly Hills Spy
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rutland of Jutland was one of the most famous aviators in the First World War, decorated for his heroism who became a Japanese spy during the Golden A...
113. Flora MacDonald - The Girl Who Saved a Prince
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Flora MacDonald has become the stuff of legend, a song about her exploits is the theme to the bodice ripping romance Outlander. Flora showed bravery t...
112. Tallulah Bankhead - Queer Icon
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tallulah Bankhead was the movie star that never was, a theatrical legend and was far too honest for her own good, During the golden age of Hollywood T...
111. Chevaliere d'Eon - The 18th Century French Trans Spy
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Chevaliere d'Eon was a French diplomat, soldier and spy who survived two French kings, the 7 Years War, and the French Revolution, who just so hap...
110. Sir Isaac Newton - Ace of Reason
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Starting off Pride month with an Ace historical figure! There is so little ace/aroace representation out there from history to even now, I wanted to e...
109. Great Race of Mercy
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's this? A good news story from history??? Officially referred to as the 1925 Nome Serum Run, the Great Race of Mercy was an Alaskan dogsled relay...
108. Barbara Palmer - The Royal Whore
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Palmer, Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland, King's Whore and Curse of the Nation... Barb went by many names, but actions speak more than w...
107. All Aboard the Sex Raft
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1973 and Dr Santiago Genovés, an anthropologist with theory that women's ovulation holds the key to world peace, has a plan to remove conflict f...
106. Mary Toft - The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The tale of Mary Toft is a curious one, not because of the event portrayed over the years. Mary Toft was an illiterate, impoverished woman involved in...
105. The Sausage Factory Murder of Chicago
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s historical true crime time! Louisa Luetgert went missing in May 1897, her husband - the Sausage King of Chicago claims that his beloved wife ra...
104. The Overbury Poisoning
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s historical true crime time! The world’s obsession with true crime is nothing new, and this one really was the talk of the Stuart court. This ...
103. George Villiers - 1st Duke of Buckingham
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's nothing typical about the King's favourite, George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham. A man so charming that a dukedom was created just for...
102. Satanic Panic
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the shadows with us and delve into the perplexing phenomenon of the Satanic Panic. In the 1980s , communities were consumed by fears of occu...
101. The Black Widows of Liverpool
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Flanagan and Margaret Higgins, the Merseyside murderesses emigrated to Liverpool in order to escape and survive the famine, An Gorta Mór, b...
100. Queen Medb - Warrior Queen of Ireland
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Queen Medb, Queen of Connacht and downright vengeful woman whose beauty could rob men of two thirds of their valour oh and who may or may not have bee...
99. The Magdalene Laundries
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special IWD24 episode Katie does a deep dive into the Magdalene Laundries, operating under the guise of reforming "fallen" and "wayward" women...
98. Anne Bonny and Mary Read - Here Be Pirates
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were a deadly pirate duo who plundered, pilfered and pillaged their way to infamy to become legends from the golden age of pr...
97. Marlene Dietrich - Hollywood's Femme Fatale
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Embark on a journey through Marlene Dietrich's captivating life (and occasionally scandalous) life. Delve into the magnetic charm and rebellious spiri...
96. Anne Lister - Gentleman Jack
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for a wild ride through Anne Lister's diary confessions? Let's spill the tea on this 19th-century trailblazer who not only defied society but al...