Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
History Hit
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Discover the true story of Burke and Hare’s murderous rampage through the streets of Edinburgh, all to serve the needs of the city’s scientific minds. We're rerunning this early episode to mark the release of Maddy and Anthony's new documentary on History Hit TV all about Burke and Hare's story.
Anthony tells Maddy the unnerving details about the infamous 19th century serial-killing duo.
Written by Anthony Delaney. Edited by Tom Delargy. Producer is Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. It's us, your hosts Maddie Pelling and Anthony Delaney. |
| 0:04.2 | But before we begin the show, we want to ask for a few seconds of your time. |
| 0:08.2 | If you're enjoying After Dark, and we love you, if you are, we would love you just a little bit more. |
| 0:13.5 | If you could vote for us in the listeners choice category at the British Podcast Awards. |
| 0:18.0 | So go to the show notes now, click the link and just then search for After Dark. |
| 0:23.2 | Fill in your name and your email and don't forget to confirm. They will send you an email. |
| 0:27.2 | You need to confirm. The whole process probably takes about 30 seconds. If you've already voted, |
| 0:31.8 | we are so, so grateful. If you haven't, stop what you are doing right now. Vote for us before you |
| 0:37.0 | enjoy this show. |
| 0:38.6 | Hello and welcome to After Dark. I'm Maddie. And I'm Anthony. |
| 0:42.3 | And today's episode is the grizzly story of Burke and Hare, Scotland's Most Notorious Serial |
| 0:49.8 | Killers. Now, we wanted to share this episode with you again because, well, first of all, it was one of our first episodes. |
| 0:57.5 | It was really early on. |
| 0:59.1 | Don't judge us too harshly. |
| 1:00.1 | We've grown since then. |
| 1:01.5 | But it's also one that sticks with us and with a lot of you guys because you've been in touch about it. |
| 1:06.8 | And so much so that Maddie and I were so lucky to get to go and film a documentary with our |
| 1:13.8 | incredible director, Laura, and our cameraman Ryan, and we spent a week in Edinburgh exploring this |
| 1:20.6 | dark history. And it really brought up some new ideas, some new thoughts, and we thought it would be a good time |
| 1:28.7 | to revisit this particular history. I know for me, when we were in Edinburgh, Maddie, |
| 1:33.1 | I just remember, we filmed a lot at night, obviously, and it was so interesting to be in those |
| 1:40.6 | spaces, but the thing that stands out for me the most is there are a set of stairs |
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