The Penny Dreadful Hour: A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories
This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out!
It's like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ...
— Sweeney Todd ...
— Varney, the Vampyre ...
— Highwayman Dick Turpin ...
— Spring-Heel'd Jack ...
— mustache-twirling villains ...
— virtuous ballet-girls ...
—wicked gamblers ...
... and more!
Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of old Regency "dad jokes."
Join us!
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2025
002: Ch. 2-4, Sweeney Todd
IN WHICH we are introduced to Johanna Oakley, our heroine, who pines for her fiance Mark Ingestrie, whom she believes to be lost at sea; and to Col. Jeffery, one of our heroes, and close friend of Th…
001: Introduction, and Ch. 1 of Sweeney Todd
IN WHICH we are introduced to a new podcast (or, rather, a reorienting of an old one) that seeks to replicate the experience of a London street urchin listening to an older kid reading/performing the…
Special message for listeners looking for Episode One: Please start here!
A short explanation of this podcast, which has changed rather a lot in its first six months of life. After listening to this short briefing, you'll know...
- ...how to find Chapter 1 of your favorite Dr…