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
8. Blood on the Sand - The Mysterious Death of Pharaoh Ramesses III
In the heat of the Saharan sun the New Kingdom of Egypt is coming to an end - wars, plagues, famines and invasions loom ahead of Ancient Egypt's future. What started this terrible sequence of events?…
01:05:45 |
Wed 26 May 2021
7. Masters of Shadow - The Ninjas of Feudal Japan
A terrified Samurai stands in the valley of a mountain range; his fellow warriors lie dead around him, cut down by a foe they never saw coming. A castle guard frantically works to put out the flames …
00:56:28 |
Wed 19 May 2021
6. Requiescat in Pace - The Pazzi Conspiracy
From Michelangelo and Galileo, to Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century Florence was home to some of history’s greatest artists and thinkers. But while this was a city of beauty, free thoug…
01:12:56 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
5. Murder in the Bath - The Assassination of Marat
On the 13th July 1793, Jean Paul Marat ran a bath and slipped into the warm water - little did he know he would never re-emerge from its powdered waters. Marat was murdered by a young woman named Cha…
01:07:43 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
4. Murder at the Masked Ball - Assassination of Gustav III
The end of the 18th century was a time of balls, banquets and bloody revolutions. New ideas were in the air, the Age of Reason had transformed many of Europe’s monarchs from medieval tyrants into enl…
00:58:36 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
3. The Dagger Men - The Sicarii of Judea
At the beginning of the Common Era, Rome had conquered and subjugated the region of the Middle East known as Judea. However, an extreme Jewish sect was whispered about amongst Roman legionaries – the…
01:07:31 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
2. Poison Damsels - The Visha Kanya
In ancient India, from the peasant fields to the royal palaces, folk would speak in hushed tones of the legendary assassins known as the Visha Kanya - young women of exceptional beauty transformed in…
00:55:01 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
1. Hidden Blades - The Assassins of Masyaf
Beginning in the early medieval past of the Middle East, the Assassins of Masyaf rose from chaos to form a quasi kingdom of fortified castles in the hills and mountains of the Levant.
From there th…
00:56:19 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
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