ShortHand: Saint Valentine

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When you hear the words “Valentine’s Day”, what springs to mind? Romantic candlelit dinners? Secret admirers? Or violent Christian martyrdom? Well, go back far enough and it’s the latter that people were really celebrating on the 14th of February.

H&S go back to the pagan-bashing Christian roots of the festival, and find out the beheadings, miracles and secret marriages behind the real(ish) Saint Valentine. Plus: why the Loch Ness Monster is definitely in hell.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Welcome.
0:09.0	Welcome to Short Hand and also to Valentine's Day.
0:18.0	That's how I feel about it.
0:24.0	I think it's quite good.
0:25.0	It's the first time in ages that we've had the the sound board with us.
0:28.0	Yeah.
0:29.0	In a record.
0:30.0	And why not?
0:31.0	You're going to be hearing many a sound today's episode I think.
0:34.0	You want any Valentine's Day plan?
0:37.0	So Valentine's Day, I was like, there's this thing I want to do.
0:42.0	And I suspect the ACD face didn't really want to do it.
0:46.0	But I was like, but if it's my present to him, then he has to do it.
0:52.0	So we're going to punch drunk.
0:54.0	Fun.
0:55.0	The Bern City.
0:56.0	I haven't been to that production, but I have been to construct shows.
0:58.0	Oh, okay.
0:59.0	So I'm really excited.
1:00.0	I don't know what to expect.
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