Episodes 4

1 Life During the Black Death Pandemic

January 10, 2020

24m

The Professor recounts what the Black Death was like, consulting a rat and Death himself.

2 Stealing The World's Most Expensive Necklace

February 27, 2020

28m

The Professor delves into an old catfishing scheme and the role it played in parting a queen with her head.

3 Surviving the Titanic: History's Luckiest Woman

April 10, 2020

25m

A White Star Line employee survived the sinking of both the Titanic and its sister ship - what do the Professor and a notorious propeller have to say about it?

4 The Dancing Plague

May 22, 2020

27m

In the season finale, the Professor talks dancing mania in Strasbourg in 1518, the famous incident where those people in France danced till they died.

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