This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. An amateurish burglary in 1950s London ends in murder. One of the men involved is a ...

When Britain entered its first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, many found comfort in evoking the British wartime spirit. A timely hero emerged – Captain Tom Moore, a WWII veteran who walked ...

The death in February of an octogenarian named Donald Shoup did not make many headlines, but it did prompt a flood of admiring social media conversations among the “Shoupistas”, a small but ...

Fearing for his life, Harry Houdini leaves secret codes with his loved ones that he promises to use in any post-mortem messaging. In 1926, Houdini’s death shocks the world, but the news that follows ...

Think globally, act locally, they used to say. If it’s true, why does it matter that the US has — again — withdrawn support for international co-ordination on climate change? In the mid-20th ...

The death in February of an octogenarian named Donald Shoup did not make many headlines, but it did prompt a flood of admiring social media conversations among the “Shoupistas”, a small but fervent ...

Harry Houdini finds an ally in his fight against spiritualism, a brilliant detective called Rose Mackenberg, who’ll do whatever it takes to expose a fake. Together, the two head to Washington to try ...

Fearing for his life, Harry Houdini leaves secret codes with his loved ones that he promises to use in any post-mortem messaging. In 1926, Houdini's death shocks the world, but the news that follows ...