YCP Extra! Monkeys in court, spying chefs and DIY wine
With crime-stopping old ladies, fortune-telling dogs and professional walkers-on-heads, it's all go in the first mini episode for 2019. Join...
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Yesterday's Chip Paper
Fortnightly(ish) podcast delving into incredible, macabre and bizarre stories from historical newspapers. Violet and Jim are two amateur researchers based on opposite sides of the Atlantic,...
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20 of 51 episodes41. Under an Evil Star: The Wild Adventures of the Animal King
"Born and brought up through childhood with wild animals for playmates", Frank C. Bostock was no ordinary child. From the age of 15, he beca...
40. Genille Cave-Browne-Cave: The most interesting man who ever lived
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper, join Violet and Jim and hear the story of the Bronco Bustin' Baronet, AKA Sir Genille Cave-Browne...
YCP Extra! Halloween II: More ghosts, more murder, and a haunted penny
With ghosts solving their own murders, ghosts murdering innocent victims, and other stories that involve neither ghosts nor murder, things a...
39. Bringing up the bodies: Murder in Panther Branch
This week, we check in with a man of many names who commits the most heinous of crime, then disappears...or does he? Plus, Jim reads a lette...
38. Malcolm Gillespie: Scourge of the Smugglers...and Horses
In the wilds of 1800s Scotland, one man stood alone against those who sought to subvert the law by smuggling and distilling their own, tax-f...
YCP Extra! Eagle-punching, dangerous film fans and history's worst watchman
In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra!, Jim and Violet explore desperate fights between boys and eagles, incompetent night watchme...
37. "Old Kill-Devil" and the Bushwhackers: The Tale of Sam Hildebrand
With the help of his gun "Old Kill-Devil", Sam Hildebrand became a figure revered by the entire state of Missouri, including the infamous Je...
36. The 100 Wives of the Lightning Bridegroom
George A. Witzhoff was born in Switzerland in the 1860s. Following the death of his father, he moved to the US to become proficient in the a...
35. Ida Lewis and Nancy Rose: The Bravest Women in America
Ida Lewis and Nancy Rose were two of a kind - women who tended lighthouses after their father and husband respectively could no longer enact...
34. Maybe a Murderer. Definitely a Disaster: The Story of Charles Parton
Charles Parton was born around 1870 into a hard world. Raised in a public house owned by his pugilist father, his future would be no easier....
YCP Extra! Lightning Flowers, Errant Hats and Real Fake Names
In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra!, Violet and Jim read each other's stories from across the centuries, ranging from an unfort...
33. Three* Barn-Burnings outside Chemung, New York
*There were more, but we liked this title. The Elliot family was one of the preeminent farming families of 1870s Chemung County, NY. Until,...
32. Samuel Bissett's Sapient Pig
Scotland-born Samuel Bissett was a man of many talents; shoemaking, brokering and, more famously, making all sorts of animals do all sorts o...
YCP Extra! Pressgangs, Overly-Curious Canadians and Extreme Overreactions
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! Violet and Jim read some stories for the first time, featuring a nonsense and angering ridd...
31. Happy Ned: Elizabeth Taylor at sea
In honour of International Women's Day, Violet tells the story of Elizabeth Taylor (also known as Happy Ned) who spent most of her life dres...
30. Ernest Welsh and the Sceptical Experts
Ernest William Welsh invented a lot of stuff. Maybe. Possibly. From creating instruments of death to starting feuds with fellow inventors, t...
29. Kids and Grownups Love It so, the Poisoned World of Harry Beno
1890s Indiana, a state in the midst of a boom. A character appears in the newspapers with a talent so strange he becomes a star. He went by...
YCP Extra! Pole-squatting, Violet Day and shaving mishaps
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! Violet and Jim read out stories from historical newspapers, covering topics ranging from so...
28. An Old, Wet Man and a Turtle. The Lies and Times of Louis de Rougemont
Sent packing by his mother with 7000 Francs to "have an adventure", Louis de Rougemont would not disappoint. But his fantastical story soon...