Yesterday Today - 10/08

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we're taking a quick look at the end of the second World War in teh Pacific, as well as rummaging through a host of summer ghost stories from the 19th century. There's also a small story that would go on to foreshadow the "autumn of fear" in London, 1888. ------ For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at ⁠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 The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: ⁠http://author.to/darkhistories⁠ Dark Histories merch is available here: ⁠https://bit.ly/3GChjk9⁠ 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 join our Discord community: ⁠https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf⁠ The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.5	Subject to availability, serving time supply.
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0:42.6	Julia and Alaric are colliding storms against a backdrop of the brutal dangers of ancient Rome.
0:48.3	They'll do anything to carve their peace out of this treacherous world and not just survive, but rule.
0:54.8	Enemy of my dreams is available wherever books are sold.
1:09.2	Hello and welcome to yesterday today for the week beginning Sunday the 10th of August 2025.
1:17.0	If you'd never listened before, this is I guess the kind of side episodes of Dark History,
1:21.3	is the kind of byproduct of my research over there.
1:24.3	So yeah, let's just jump straight into it.
1:26.7	Obviously there was huge news in
1:29.8	August of 1945 being that the Japanese surrendered. So you had V-J Day and the news of Japan
1:38.5	surrendering just full stop. It was a huge saga because it was sort of off again, on again
1:44.0	for about a week.
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