The Cloak and Dagger Podcast
Will and Patrick explore strange and rarely told tales of history - from ancient Indian assassins and Baghdad scientists to Irish rebels and New York mob queens, and everything in between…
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- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 68 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
A Study in Pink(ertons) - USA, 19th Century
In a factory in Homestead Pennsylvania, thousands of steel workers have downed tools and striking - their boss Andrew Carnegie is about to lower their wages and they have had enough.Then down the riv…
01:06:57 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
The Duel and the Duke - London, 1829
In the misty dawn of a March morning in 1829 a duel is about to take place in Battersea.Whilst duels were still fairly common at the time, they were frowned upon by most and especially by army genera…
01:01:02 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
The Dutch Corsair - Barbary Coast, 17th Century
A pirate, a president and a Dutchman are the last things a humble fisherman on the shores of Iceland might expect to see sailing in on the evening tide. But on one fateful night in 1627, all three ro…
01:02:56 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
For Love or Money? Montreal 1642-1692
This one is a special case, that's for sure. Jacques Bizard - a Swiss Calvinist mercenary - met a French Catholic general called Louis de Frontenac. Their bond might well have gone from friendship to…
01:01:51 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
The Great Peace - Montreal, 1701
After reading the histories of civilisation (or just by listening to this podcast) you may get the idea that war is humanity’s natural state. But the truth is that we fight just as hard to forge peac…
01:08:44 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Defending the Faith - Carcassonne, 1209
Will and Patrick delve deep into the purge of the Cathar faith in Southern France. Sanctioned by the Pope and supported by the King of France, crusading knights and templars threw themselves against …
01:15:34 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Father to an Empire - Kabul, 1504
How far would you go to live up to a family name? If your ancestry included not one but two founders of empires, do you really have much choice in what life you are destined for?
Afghanistan has see…
01:45:36 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Go to your God - Kabul, 1842
War is hell. Unfortunately however, when an empire grows large enough it starts to forget that fact. Which makes it all the more horrifying when that harsh reality comes crashing down upon the poor f…
01:10:35 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
Dictator for a Day - Rome, 458 BC
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or that's at least how the saying goes. And a cursory glance at the last 12,000 years of human history would seem to confirm this rather bleak …
00:53:21 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
A Martyr to Science - Rome, 1600
Are Science and Religion perhaps the oldest of rivals? Reason vs faith. Scripture vs hypothesise. Maybe, or maybe it’s just the power-hungry people who live their life by one or the other who perpetu…
01:15:32 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
A Crisis of Cod - Reykjavik, 1958 - 1976
Icelanders are a people forged in the fires of volcanoes and tempered in the frosts of glaciers. They are the descendants of Vikings who found the freezing winters of Norway too gentle. And they are …
01:08:45 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
The Lesser of Two Hitlers - Dublin 1900
Long before the rise of his brother Adolf Hitler to Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Alois Hitler left his home in Austria and landed on the Emerald Isle to start a new life. Tune in to find out what happe…
01:12:10 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
How to Lose a Revolution in Five Days - Dublin 1916
The glorious revolution is a tale that almost every country in world considers part of its history, in one form or another. An underdog tale of dashing revolutionaries taking on insurmountable odds i…
01:22:05 |
Wed 24 May 2023
God Awful Gods of Egypt Review
Hello hello everyone! We are so happy that we have finally got a new episode to give to you after a long pause! Here Patrick and Will chat with fellow podcasters Patrick Little and Jamie Graham (from…
01:16:30 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
A Holy Heist - 1307 Westminster
Will and Patrick had the great honour of being asked to make an episode for the History of England Podcast and this was the result!
1307, Westminster. King Edward I has moved his court to York whil…
01:00:48 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Fleet of Flames - China, 208 CE
War is a time when heroes and villains are born from the crucible of battle. Or at least that’s what the legends and tales that sprout forth from a war-torn people would tell us. But how do you separ…
01:10:26 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Immortals Movie Review
Check out this bonus episode where we join our friends from A Little History Podcast and The Jammy History Podcast to review to fantastically unique 2011 film Immortals.
01:28:11 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cows 1 Empire 0 - Tondibi, Songhai Empire 1591
War is a time where ingenuity can win the day, even in some unusual circumstances. As it is in martial arts, one sure path to victory on the battlefield can be taking your opponent's strength and tur…
01:05:51 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
The Enemy of My Enemy - Austria, 1945
War is a time when soldiers fight and die for reasons bigger than themselves. For a soldier, the world collapses down to the comrades at their side, the gun in their hand, and the enemy over the hill…
01:01:54 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Frozen Fleet - The Netherlands, 18th Century
War is a time where cunning and daring can often win the day. The skill to look at what some may see as insurmountable odds and see opportunity, can mean life or death for thousands of lives.
From …
00:54:48 |
Wed 18 May 2022
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