Graham Young: The Tea Boy

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Graham Young was an unusual boy. Infinitely fascinated with chemistry, he devoted large amounts of his early life pouring over thick medical textbooks, educating himself on the properties of various chemical compounds. What stood Graham out from his peers more than his intellect was that his obsession with chemistry revolved almost solely around the usage of various poisons. Curiosity has always been inherently dangerous and this is infinitely more true in the case of Graham Young, when theory turned to practice. SOURCES: Holden, A. (1974). The St Albans Poisoner. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, UK. Wilson, C. (1974). Murder in Mind: Issue 30. Marshall Cavendish Paperworks Limited, London, UK. Trestrail, J H. (2000). Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. Harris, P. (1962) ‘Fantastic Mind Of A 14 year Old Poisoner’, Daily Mirror, 6 July, p.3 Laxton, E. (1972) ‘The Poison Boy At Large’, Daily Mirror, June 30, p.13-15 ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:38.3	Let's crack on with the episode. Crayam Young was an unusual boy. Infinately fascinated with chemistry, he devoted large amounts of his life pouring over thick medical textbooks, educating himself on the properties of various
0:55.4	chemical compounds. What stood Graham out from his peers more than his intellect, however,
1:01.1	was that his obsession with chemistry revolved almost solely around the use of various
1:05.4	poisons. Curiosity has always been inherently dangerous, and this is infinitely more true in the
1:11.7	case of Graham Young when theory turn to practice.
1:16.0	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction. Hello, welcome to Dark Histories. I think this is Series 3 episode 19 now. This week is going to be a great episode which I've had on the
1:37.5	burner for absolutely ages probably about two seasons now.
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1:44.8	which I will explain more about later,
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