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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

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Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals is a true crime podcast unlike any other; because every word of it was written nearly 300 years ago.


Each week, we read aloud one chapter from a remarkable book first published in London in 1735: a sprawling collection of murderers, highwaymen, coiners, housebreakers, pirates and worse, recorded in vivid and unsparing detail.


The crimes are real. The voices are authentic. And the world they reveal, brutal, strange, and surprisingly familiar, has been waiting three centuries to be heard again. True crime did not begin with podcasts. It began here by the burning light of a candle.

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  • Episode 000: Introduction to The Lives Of the Most Remarkable Criminals

    Episode 000: Introduction to The Lives Of the Most Remarkable Criminals
    May 19 2026

    This is not a podcast about true crime. It is true crime — written in 1735 and read aloud for the first time in nearly three centuries.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals was first published in 1735, covering murderers, highwaymen, housebreakers, coiners, pirates and worse — each one profiled in vivid, unsparing detail. It is one of the earliest works of true crime writing in the English language, and it has been waiting nearly three centuries to be heard aloud.

    The crimes are real. The world they reveal — brutal, strange and surprisingly familiar — is closer to our own than most of us would care to admit.

    True crime fascination did not begin with podcasts. It began here, by the burning light of a candle.
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