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Bed Short Mystery Story Collection invites you into a world of quiet suspense and timeless intrigue. 🌙🔍Each episode features short mystery stories designed for nighttime listening—blending classic detective vibes, vintage storytelling, and a soothing atmosphere that keeps you curious yet calm.From subtle clues to unexpected twists, these tales unfold gently, making them perfect for winding down before sleep while still sparking your imagination. ✨ A touch of mystery, a hint of nostalgia, and stories that linger softly in the dark. 🎧 Close your eyes, follow the clues, and drift ...

Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors.

In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten. 

In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700, Duncan Campbell reveals what it's really like to deal with murderers, gangsters, victims, informers and detectives, looking at the 'hacks in the macs' who would go to any lengths to get a story - and serve it up to an ever-eager reading public. Crime is a prism through which we see society and its phobias.

A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder?The first and second series of Bed of Lies are also available to listen to on this feed:Series 2: It was meant to be a miracle treatment, but it became a deadly poison. Cara investigates the biggest medical ...

The Bed Bug epidemic is at a all time high, having now affected 1 in 5 Americans. Listen in with Eric Flynn from Bed Bug Consulting, LLC as he discusses everything related to Bed Bugs and answers listener questions. eric@bedbugconsulting.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bedbugradio/support

What was it like to go to bed with Julius Caesar? How has sex changed throughout history? Each week I will take a look at the sex lives of the biggest figures of the past and imagine what it was like to spend the night with them. All episodes accompanied by an Amazon Kindle ebook. Follow me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VicNeal nicecakepublishing@gmail.com