meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Conflicted: A History Podcast

Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Marquis De Sade was a pariah in his time, a monster on the page, and a genius in death. But what crimes did the namesake of “sadism” actually commit? Where did his real-life appetites end…and his literary fantasies begin? (Explicit, obviously) SOURCES: Thomas, Donald. The Marquis de Sade. 1976. Du Plessix Gray, Francine. At Home with the Marquis de Sade. 1998. Lever, Maurice. Sade. 1994. Schaeffer, Niel. The Marquis De Sade: A Life. 1999. Gorer, Geoffrey. The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade. 1933. Marquis de Sade. The 120 Days of Sodom. Marquis de Sade. Letters from Prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years,

0:05.0

but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot including the car now sean doesn't know how he's

0:25.8

going to get home thanks camber hello and welcome to conflicted the history podcast where we talk

0:34.0

about the struggles that shaped us the tough questions that they, and why we should care about any of it.

0:40.2

Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network, and as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell.

0:46.5

Welcome to Episode 13, Pardon My French. The

0:57.0

The In the spring of 1966, the United Kingdom was in the grip of a tabloid media frenzy.

1:24.4

The murder trial of the century was about to begin. A young couple, Ian Brady and

1:30.7

Mira Hindley, had been accused of a series of murders that had plagued Northern England over

1:36.0

the past two years. The emotions around this case were so intense that these defendants had

1:41.3

to be placed in security boxes encased in a protective screen to shield

1:45.8

them from any vengeful courtroom attendees. And their crimes were truly shocking. Together,

1:52.3

this young man and young woman had allegedly tortured, sexually abused, and killed five children

1:58.3

between the ages of 10 and 17, before burying their bodies in shallow

2:03.7

graves across a span of isolated, windswept grassland, or moors. And that detail gave the case

2:10.8

its famous name, the Moors Murders. Over the next 14 days, beginning on April 19th, the jury listened to the details of the

2:19.8

case, and it was an absolute layup for the prosecution. They had a mountain of evidence. They had

2:26.0

the bodies. They had the murder weapons. They had eyewitness testimony. They even had video

2:30.9

evidence of one of the murders, which the young couple had themselves filmed

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Zach Cornwell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Zach Cornwell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.