2.07: Sweeney Todd and the loan shark. — A very angry young profligate. — A racy flash song about a buz-napper and a bawd!

A Sunday-evening full episode IN WHICH —

0:02:40: TERRIBLE TIDBIT of the DAY for JULY 20:

• A melancholy tale of a shooting accident near Hungerford on July 20, 1852. Originally published in Household Words magazine by Charles Dickens; courtesy of Cate Ludlow and The History Press (UK).

0:05:30: MYSTERIES OF LONDON, Ch. 4:

• We cut away to Mr. Markham’s estate. That gentleman’s two sons are talking. The elder, Eugene (19), has determined to shake the dust of the family home from his feet, having quarreled bitterly with his father. The other son, Richard (15), supported by their family butler, begs him to reconsider. Will he do so? Or will he follow through on his determination to vanish utterly from their lives?

0:05:30: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 54:

• The customer who wants artificial hair dressed guides Todd to his lodging-house, which his wife runs. On the doorstep he learns the gentleman who needs his peruke dressed is John Mundel — the moneylender Todd pawned the pearls off on for 8000 pounds. Sweeney Todd is in a tight spot now! What will happen when he sees Todd? Will he recognize in him the ugly but elegant duke who pawned those priceless but unsellable pearls and then morrissed off like a summer zephyr? What will happen if he does?

PLUS —

• Learn the meaning of "bully rocks," "gunpowders," and a few other words of highway-robber slang, and ...
• The Ballad of Buz-napper Bob and The Corinthian's Diary, two flash songs from the age sung in the wrong sort of drinking establishments; and
• Another rare nugget of wonder from the Terrific Register!

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!