The Edinburgh Body Snatchers from Cautionary Tales

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this episode from Cautionary Tales. In 1827, Edinburgh, Scotland was a world centre for anatomical study, but there was a shortage of cadavers for medical students to dissect. Two men, William Burke and William Hare, spotted a grim business opportunity. They began sourcing bodies - by any means possible...

Host Tim Harford's hair-raising story explores a question: what makes some markets acceptable, and others repugnant?

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	My name is Payne, Lindsay, and I host true-crime podcast called Up and Vanished.
0:15.0	My new season has taken me to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, where two people have gone missing.
0:20.0	I'm convinced they were murdered, and someone in this town is covering it up.
0:24.2	We came back without my son. I want you to find him. The roommate lied about his
0:30.4	whereabouts Saturday night. I know he's murdered. I know he is. I want to find my brother.
0:36.0	Everything about this points to homicide.
0:39.0	I invite you to be a fly on the wall for the most intense real-time murder
0:43.0	investigation you'll ever hear in a podcast.
0:46.0	High pain. Would you like to solve a murder?
0:50.0	Receiving cryptic messages from a random stranger.
0:53.5	I want to stay anonymous.
0:55.5	I'm scared.
0:57.0	Are you ready to get your hands dirty?
0:59.5	From Tenderfoot TV, Up in Vanish season four is available now.
1:05.0	Listen for free on Apple Podcasts.
1:08.0	Hello listeners Tim Harford here, host of the Cautionary Tales podcast, I am dropping into your feed with a special Halloween story.
1:19.0	It's 1827, and the City of Edinburgh, Scotland is a world centre for anatomical study.
1:27.0	But there's a shortage of cadavers for medical students to dissect.
1:32.8	Two men, William Burke and William Hare,
1:36.4	spot a gruesome business opportunity.
1:39.6	That's what I explore in this episode of Cautionary Tales recorded live on stage in the UK.
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