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The Z List Dead List - a history of the not-so famous. Comedians, Historians and Podcasters talk about their favourite forgotten people from History. Full of laughs and facts. A mix of live...
While researching Billie Swift Takes Flight Iszi discovered the story of Diana Barnato Walker - a world record setting pilot who flew Spitfi...
When a dinosaur obsession works out. Victoria Coules has the best PHD going. She is researching representations of Paleontology in media. Th...
Were all composers white men with powdered wigs? The shocking truth is no, of course they weren't. Iszi speaks to Elizabeth de Brito of The...
I worry I may have been too positive about Margery Kempe. I do find her fascinating, not just because she offers a glimpse into life in the...
Kim Kardashian is now famously a billionaire, mostly from successful promoting and selling shapewear underwear which she promotes using her...
'He was a shiftless person, roving and maggotty-headed, and sometimes a little better than crazed. And being exceedingly credulous would stu...
No episode this month BECAUSE I've been working on another podcast. I know. It is all about dinosaurs and this is just a small taster. Go to...
Brill performance by Greg Jenner - author of the BRAND NEW book Dead Famous - and host of the You're Dead To Me Podcast. His performance is...
Unusual episode where I guest on The Bechdel Cast where Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus put movies to the Bechdel Test. This episode was re...
No violence, all charm, this podcast isn't about Marvel, but it is of a man who marvels at the smallest and least understood creatures. http...
History is full of criminals, and some are not human. Here is a tale of animals of the past, some guilty, some innocent all judged by the LA...
If you live in Reading, you've probably heard of Amelia Dyer. She was the most prolific of all British serial killers and dumped the bodies...
The man who conquered all of Rome... although Rome at the time was the size of Deddington. Still it is nice to beat the Romans, despite thei...
What does it take to be a hero? Nowadays rescuing others, not being a coward, or just standing up for you principles seems to be the key. In...
The odds are never a problem if you own half the racers. This is a story of a populist who brought down his own people. Born into wealth and...
Accidentally predicting the future in her sci fi novels, Kage Baker's books set alight to the dork celebrator extraordinaire, comedian Jacki...
Was Dr James Barry a pioneering transman or was she an insanely driven genius woman who sacrificed everything, even her own identity for her...
Was Otto Overbeck an abject failure? A brilliant polymath? A Quack? An Abuser? Iszi and James Stark explore the curious career of a bizarre...
Who knew laying cable could be so difficult? This isn't an episode about eating more fibre, it is about fibre optic's predecessor. The teleg...
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And what could be more festive than talk of pious Christians finally overcoming their pagan occupiers by clever use of marr...
She's Irish, Spanish, American and Mistress to the King of Bavaria married 3 times, Dancer, actress, lecturer, author and murderer? Iszi thi...
This is not a very Z List episode if you are already a Basketball fan but I'm guessing, not many of us history nerds are... Steve Cross is t...
What has Pears Soap, a soprano, bell ringing orphans, a lesbian affair, ritual dowsing, litigation and a Monkey called Mr Titileehee have to...
How do 6 stolen boots, a snake and drawing lots result in a man being eaten? Welcome to the horrible tale of Alexander Pearce 1790-1824. Who...
The cry Mother Prodgers! echoes around the streets. Cab drivers flee, leaving the stand empty but for Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers the n...
Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. So why was he deliberately written out of history? Mitch Be...
Think you're clever? Maybe you are: but are you a GENIUS? Irving Finkel doubts it. There is only one man this curator gives that label to an...
Do you know the difference between a cryptogamist and a cryptogramist? No? Well it turns out that, during the Second World War, someone in t...
the most important woman in the history of mathematics... possibly the most important PERSON. So why have you never heard of her? For any qu...
Peggy Pollard's life sounds so made up its ridiculous... borne to the upper classes, a genius scholar, criminally minded fundraiser, a brill...
London is full of it. Poo. Someone worked out that having it slosh about the streets wasn't ideal. And Paul Duncan McGarrity loves him. Lear...
Bob Mills is one of Iszi's favourite people. He is an hilarious comedian, talented broadcaster and has the best Nanana in History. Prepare y...
Iszi talks about her work on Making History, Music Hall, her mother in a wheelbarrow, The Other Winston Churchill (there were two) and Adam...
What happens if you are outshone by your contemporaries. While Thomas Paine was busy changing the world, another man, also called Thomas was...
2018 brings a new format to the Z List Dead List - the regular episode will appear as usual (usually the third thursday of the month) but is...
Struggling in the bedroom? Would some Monkey Glands help? Comedian Bethany Black on the surgical implant business of pre war Europe.. Plus!...
Who really won the first world war? The Z List Dead List Halloweeeeen episode usually features a witch, and this episode is no exception. Br...
Special Episode - listen to a live recording of the Z List Dead List. Find out who invented the Ultramarathon... before the Marathon! Who su...
Curing people with magic tea bags, preparing Jesus's house and ensuite shower, eating apples in the actual garden of eden... welcome to the...
Which intrepid spinster was best buddies with Rudyard Kipling and fought off hungry leopards? Which woman judo chopped a Nazi to death? John...
Fancy a change of career? Zoe Lyons has a suggestion. How about digging a trench in your garden, filling it with water and lying down submer...
Find out MORE about the life of our favourite Pop Star Ghost Hunter, Harry Price. Including the world's more famous goat, the devil's favour...
Why did King Harold get shot in the Eye? Who was the first Accident and Emergency started for? What was a key trigger for Anti Apartheid? Gr...
Natalie Haynes loves her Greek on the attic side of difficulty, she asks the audience of the British Museum 'when did man first aspire to se...
The title of Sex God gets bandied around quite a bit these days, as Carrie Quinlain knows all too well. But there can only be one true sex g...
Who was the richest man who ever lived? How rich are we talking? 40 Donald Trumps?! Ahir Shah has the lowdown on the man who was so rich he...
Who was the most accident prone explorer in History? Drinking out of puddles and carrying a briefcase in a jungle, Sebastian Snow was one of...
How do you pronounce Boudicca? Doesn't matter, she wasn't as crafty as the other Queen ruling at the same time. Who got Rome in between her...
As Britain is divided after the Brexit referendum iszi explores nationalism, identity and unity... ok.. well... hanging out in Cuba and forc...
Ever get annoyed someone stole your idea? What if no one found out about it until decades after you died? This is a story of an unknown femi...