Podcasts by The Z List Dead List
Will you be remembered after you're dead? The Z List Dead List, a podcast about obscure people from History, hosted by Iszi Lawrence.
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S12E06 ATA GIRL! from 2021-08-23T05:30
While researching Billie Swift Takes Flight Iszi discovered the story of Diana Barnato Walker - a world record setting pilot who flew Spitfires during the second world war. Diana was one of many fe...
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S12E05 Gertie The Dinosaur from 2021-07-23T11:16:36
When a dinosaur obsession works out. Victoria Coules has the best PHD going. She is researching representations of Paleontology in media. This means she gets to look at dinosaurs all day as well as...
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S12E04 A Sore-Footed Success. The life of Florence Price. from 2021-06-13T05:30
Were all composers white men with powdered wigs? The shocking truth is no, of course they weren't. Iszi speaks to Elizabeth de Brito of The Daffodil Perspective about the most famous of the non-mal...
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S12E03 Cry Hard with a Vision from 2021-05-12T05:30
I worry I may have been too positive about Margery Kempe. I do find her fascinating, not just because she offers a glimpse into life in the early 15th Century but because of how modern she feels as...
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S12E02 The Story of Sarah Baartman from 2021-04-12T05:30
Kim Kardashian is now famously a billionaire, mostly from successful promoting and selling shapewear underwear which she promotes using her ass-sets. But was she the first person to commodify this ...
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S12E01 Maggotty Headed from 2021-03-04T06:00
'He was a shiftless person, roving and maggotty-headed, and sometimes a little better than crazed. And being exceedingly credulous would stuff his many letters with fooleries and misinformations wh...
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Terrible Lizards Trailer from 2020-06-09T08:54:28
No episode this month BECAUSE I've been working on another podcast. I know. It is all about dinosaurs and this is just a small taster. Go to for more information. Thank you!
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S11E19 Dead Kean from 2020-04-15T21:41:13
Brill performance by Greg Jenner - author of the BRAND NEW book Dead Famous - and host of the You're Dead To Me Podcast. His performance is nearly as good as Edmund Kean. You know that hugely famou...
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BONUS EPISODE WITH BECHDEL CAST from 2020-03-10T16:01:44
Unusual episode where I guest on The Bechdel Cast where Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus put movies to the Bechdel Test. This episode was recorded live in London and is about The Favourite the stor...
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S11E17 A Very British Spiderman from 2020-01-11T17:15:22
No violence, all charm, this podcast isn't about Marvel, but it is of a man who marvels at the smallest and least understood creatures. For more information about The Z List Dead List please visit...
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S11E16 I find this pig GUILTY from 2019-10-22T12:37:03
History is full of criminals, and some are not human. Here is a tale of animals of the past, some guilty, some innocent all judged by the LAW. And all too would have been forgotten without that gre...
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S11E15 The Serial Killer at No.45 from 2019-09-05T13:48:32
If you live in Reading, you've probably heard of Amelia Dyer. She was the most prolific of all British serial killers and dumped the bodies in the canal. Iszi recently found her address, so took ...
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S11 E14 Woe To The Conquered from 2019-08-13T20:52:06
The man who conquered all of Rome... although Rome at the time was the size of Deddington. Still it is nice to beat the Romans, despite their well trained* defence geese. In this episode iszi drunk...
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S11 E13 Troy Story - Heroes Gods and Amazons! from 2019-07-18T11:46:24
What does it take to be a hero? Nowadays rescuing others, not being a coward, or just standing up for you principles seems to be the key. In the Trojan war you could spend years in a tent sulking w...
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S11 E12 The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece from 2019-06-11T14:23:29
The odds are never a problem if you own half the racers. This is a story of a populist who brought down his own people. Born into wealth and unrivalled privilege, at least this particular politicia...
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S11 E11 The Infinite Baker Kage from 2019-05-08T22:18:11
Accidentally predicting the future in her sci fi novels, Kage Baker's books set alight to the dork celebrator extraordinaire, comedian Jackie Kashian. In this episode we discuss the limits of ficti...
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S11 E10 Real Men from 2019-04-01T14:41:40
Was Dr James Barry a pioneering transman or was she an insanely driven genius woman who sacrificed everything, even her own identity for her career? Iszi ponders the difficulty of trying to fit mor...
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S11E09 REJUVENATE! from 2019-03-17T12:48:23
Was Otto Overbeck an abject failure? A brilliant polymath? A Quack? An Abuser? Iszi and James Stark explore the curious career of a bizarre creature with an electric personality. Iszi Lawrenceis a ...
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S11E08 Wild Orange Whitehouse Man from 2019-01-30T22:22:51
Who knew laying cable could be so difficult? This isn't an episode about eating more fibre, it is about fibre optic's predecessor. The telegraph and how it is bloody difficult sending messages acro...
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S11E07 Pouring Bees on Vikings from 2018-12-25T00:00
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And what could be more festive than talk of pious Christians finally overcoming their pagan occupiers by clever use of marrying enemy Earls, raising a kick-arse nephew and stealing...
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S11E06 Her Name Wasn't Lola from 2018-11-25T23:12:21
She's Irish, Spanish, American and Mistress to the King of Bavaria married 3 times, Dancer, actress, lecturer, author and murderer? Iszi thinks so. Doug Segal isn't so sure. Meet Lola Montez AKA El...
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S11E05 Peach Baskets from 2018-10-10T21:05:36
This is not a very Z List episode if you are already a Basketball fan but I'm guessing, not many of us history nerds are... Steve Cross is tho! He explains the magic formula to inventing a world-p...
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S11E04 The 19th Century Kim Kardashian from 2018-08-29T20:18:08
What has Pears Soap, a soprano, bell ringing orphans, a lesbian affair, ritual dowsing, litigation and a Monkey called Mr Titileehee have to do with the advancement of women's rights? Author, actor...
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S11E03 Tough As Old Boots with Alice Fraser from 2018-08-01T11:14:46
How do 6 stolen boots, a snake and drawing lots result in a man being eaten? Welcome to the horrible tale of Alexander Pearce 1790-1824. Who would eat humans... even when he strictly didn't 'need' ...
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S11E02 The Terror of the Taxi Cab with Jo Caulfield from 2018-07-12T07:37:46
The cry Mother Prodgers! echoes around the streets. Cab drivers flee, leaving the stand empty but for Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers the nemesis of cabmen everywhere! Jo Caulfield takes the stage...
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S11E01 What are you Like? with Mitch Benn from 2018-06-13T18:39:52
Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. So why was he deliberately written out of history? Mitch Benn explains! For any questions suggestions and feedback g...
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S10 E9 A F*!#ing Genius with Irving Finkel from 2018-05-16T14:12:30
Think you're clever? Maybe you are: but are you a GENIUS? Irving Finkel doubts it. There is only one man this curator gives that label to and it is Edward Hincks... upstaged by the evil Rawlinson a...
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S10E08 The Typo That Won The War With Florence Schecter from 2018-04-19T09:29:18
Do you know the difference between a cryptogamist and a cryptogramist? No? Well it turns out that, during the Second World War, someone in the Ministry of Defence didn’t either. For any questions s...
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S10E07 The Mind Behind Einstein with Michael Conterio from 2018-04-04T23:03:11
the most important woman in the history of mathematics... possibly the most important PERSON. So why have you never heard of her? For any questions suggestions and feedback get in touch via Emmy N...
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S10E6 Ferguson's Gang with Lucy Porter from 2018-03-15T01:26:13
Peggy Pollard's life sounds so made up its ridiculous... borne to the upper classes, a genius scholar, criminally minded fundraiser, a brilliant seamstress and deeply devout catholic. Her life is f...
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S10E5 Victorian Poo with Paul Duncan McGarrity from 2018-03-05T07:00
London is full of it. Poo. Someone worked out that having it slosh about the streets wasn't ideal. And Paul Duncan McGarrity loves him. Learn how one man turned the thames into a giant flush, and w...
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S10E04 Sin Eaters With Bob Mills from 2018-02-15T00:00
Bob Mills is one of Iszi's favourite people. He is an hilarious comedian, talented broadcaster and has the best Nanana in History. Prepare yourself for a story of religious tradition, freaky coinci...
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S10E03 Deutero Paul With Adam Mastroianni from 2018-02-05T00:43:51
Iszi talks about her work on Making History, Music Hall, her mother in a wheelbarrow, The Other Winston Churchill (there were two) and Adam Mastroianni does a talk on Paul the Epistle and the other...
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S10E02 The Real Rights of Man with Ben Alsop from 2018-01-18T07:00
What happens if you are outshone by your contemporaries. While Thomas Paine was busy changing the world, another man, also called Thomas was trying to do the same. Both men believed in Liberty at a...
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S10E01 Drinking From Skulls With Paul Sinha from 2018-01-07T18:01:36
2018 brings a new format to the Z List Dead List - the regular episode will appear as usual (usually the third thursday of the month) but iszi is hoping to put out a mini episode at the start of th...
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S09E05 Worm Doctors and Monkey Glands from 2017-11-30T00:25:06
Struggling in the bedroom? Would some Monkey Glands help? Comedian Bethany Black on the surgical implant business of pre war Europe.. Plus! Ever had a worm living inside you? Want it taken out? L...
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S09E4 The Witch of UCL from 2017-10-23T20:45:27
Who really won the first world war? The Z List Dead List Halloweeeeen episode usually features a witch, and this episode is no exception. Brenna Hassett is yet to don her pointed hat, she is howeve...
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S09E3 A Live Recording of the Show! from 2017-09-28T00:01:13
Special Episode - listen to a live recording of the Z List Dead List. Find out who invented the Ultramarathon... before the Marathon! Who survived a suicide pact with Maths, and who was buried twic...
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S09E02 Daughter of God from 2017-08-30T22:05:42
Curing people with magic tea bags, preparing Jesus's house and ensuite shower, eating apples in the actual garden of eden... welcome to the most British of all religious sects and the crazy story o...
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S09E1 Broads Abroad from 2017-07-26T22:09:57
Which intrepid spinster was best buddies with Rudyard Kipling and fought off hungry leopards? Which woman judo chopped a Nazi to death? John Lloyd (Creator and Producer of Qi) on Mary Kingsley, a B...
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S08E6 Sunken Treasure from 2017-05-24T20:26:15
Fancy a change of career? Zoe Lyons has a suggestion. How about digging a trench in your garden, filling it with water and lying down submerged in a barrel for half an hour? Sound stupid? Well it i...
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S08E5 The Price Isn't Right from 2017-04-26T20:50:20
Find out MORE about the life of our favourite Pop Star Ghost Hunter, Harry Price. Including the world's more famous goat, the devil's favourite notebook, and the last person to be convicted under t...
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S08E4 Mislaid Comedy Heroes from 2017-03-22T23:54:06
Why did King Harold get shot in the Eye? Who was the first Accident and Emergency started for? What was a key trigger for Anti Apartheid? Grab a chair and listen to the Andre Vincent reveal the Mis...
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S08 E3 Greeks On The Moon from 2017-02-22T16:59:51
Natalie Haynes loves her Greek on the attic side of difficulty, she asks the audience of the British Museum 'when did man first aspire to set foot on the moon?' And exactly what did he expected to ...
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S08E2 Sex God from 2017-01-19T00:40:47
The title of Sex God gets bandied around quite a bit these days, as Carrie Quinlain knows all too well. But there can only be one true sex god. How he got to be a god is a little more disturbing. B...
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S08E1 The Richest Man Who Ever Lived from 2016-12-21T14:45:07
Who was the richest man who ever lived? How rich are we talking? 40 Donald Trumps?! Ahir Shah has the lowdown on the man who was so rich he was personally responsible for crashing an economy. Also ...
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S07E6 Have Briefcase Will Travel from 2016-08-25T00:00
Who was the most accident prone explorer in History? Drinking out of puddles and carrying a briefcase in a jungle, Sebastian Snow was one of the most famous British Explorers in his lifetime. Dan S...
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S07E5 The Better Boudicca from 2016-08-09T19:12:16
How do you pronounce Boudicca? Doesn't matter, she wasn't as crafty as the other Queen ruling at the same time. Who got Rome in between her and her love life. Find out about building Iron Age Forts...
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S07E4 Inglorious Badasses from 2016-07-06T23:39:47
As Britain is divided after the Brexit referendum iszi explores nationalism, identity and unity... ok.. well... hanging out in Cuba and forced circumcision. Pete Johansson is tub thumping for his n...
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S07E3 Intellectual Property Wrongs from 2016-06-22T22:53:44
Ever get annoyed someone stole your idea? What if no one found out about it until decades after you died? This is a story of an unknown feminist, an inventor and a brilliant campaigner for social e...
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S07E2 Prenaissance Man from 2016-06-08T10:14:45
The Renaissance was a time for massive innovation and invention and one man was over 200 years early to the party. Like, before the vol au vents were even baked. Spain was yet to be Spain, Islam wa...
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S07E1 Victorian Jokes from 2016-05-25T22:27:13
We are not amused... or are we? If you like you puns this is the episode for you. Find out about the popular jokes of the past, and the market that were sold in. What joke went viral over 100 years...
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S06E6 The Third Man On The Moon from 2016-04-27T10:43:14
Who was the third man on the moon? No, not the guy in orbit on the first mission... the third man to walk on the moon. Go on... who was it? This is why you need to listen to this podcast. Bec Hill ...
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S06E5 The Spy's Wife Who Loved Me from 2016-04-06T22:37:47
Who did your Dad lose his virginity to? Do you know? Dave Pickering does... and that particular tale leads us into wartime france, a tale of resistance and passion. Ooo er! Was free love a modern i...
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S06E4 Splitting Hares With God from 2016-03-24T00:40:52
In this Easter episode we discuss the power of belief and how it messes with otherwise brilliant minds... we also discuss Hares, Bill Hicks, rock-pooling and a sofa. Poets, authors and cuttlefish: ...
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S06E3 A Clash Of Symbols from 2016-03-10T00:26:37
In this episode we talk about the origins of the written word and how to go about writing... don't let a little thing like illiteracy stop you! Not all the Native American peoples decided to fight ...
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S06E2 Da Bombastus from 2016-02-25T00:21:38
In this episode we admire the father of toxicology, of psychotherapy, of evidence based medicine... but not as much as he admired himself. The self proclaimed king of doctors also a drunk who rubbe...
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S06EI Pop Star Ghost Hunter from 2016-02-10T15:12:22
In this episode we look at ghosts and the man who hunted them. Pals with Houdini, not quite a skeptic, taking mongeese too seriously... iszi and comedian Paul Gannon explore the world of Harry Pric...
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S05E5 Watt's Zen? from 2015-12-16T16:22:12
This week we go all Zen. Alan Watts is hugely famous in some circles but relatively unknown to others. This makes a lovely spiritual Christmas episode, so while the family crackles around you, list...
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S05E4 Ships, Trains, and Waterloo Teeth from 2015-12-10T01:38:58
This week is a mix match of brilliant facts, disgusting profiteering and tragic disasters. And don't call ships boats. Just no. If you like pub quizzes, this episode is for you. Topics covered incl...
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S05E3 Peddling Lies from 2015-11-12T00:46:01
Meet the Dave Gorman of the 19th century and she was a woman on a bicycle. A fibbing one at that. Expect guns, lies, abandonment and blood drinking. The next episode of the Z List Dead List is slig...
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S05E2 Sexy-ology from 2015-11-05T01:07:27
This week we talk about sex baby. Well, sex for babies, sex not for babies... sex for pleasure and sex for stuff which doesn't sound like a lot of pleasure but some people just love it. It won't su...
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S05E1 En Garde: The Attack Of The Killer Nun from 2015-10-29T00:09:52
Have you heard the one about the fighting, fencing, romancing, cross dressing, opera singing, bisexual, hairdressing nun? No? Well buckle up! Thanks for listening - if you can, please donate, but y...
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S05 Vampire Special: The Undead List... from 2015-09-02T23:03
Vampires: what is fact and what is fiction? The legend of the vampire is deeply ingrained in our culture but what are the origins of this monster? And is there any truth to the walking undead? Iszi...
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S04E6 Emperors, Whores and Rubbers from 2015-06-24T23:19:31
Who was the first Emperor of the United States? What makes an invention patentable? How much can you earn for spitting on people, or getting kicked up the backside? All of these vital questions and...
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S04E5 The Witch Of Eye from 2015-06-17T23:26:15
Which witch is the most famous in History? Margery Jourdemayne is up there and Iszi had never heard of her either! What was this early witch trial really about? An attempt to stop magic from killin...
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S04E4 An English Country Garden from 2015-06-03T23:58:41
WARNING: EXPLICIT - contains talk of things that are not for the faint of heart… or bottom. This week one hit wonders, towelling, Melbourne, suicide and whips. Can you control how you are remembere...
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S04E3 Monkeys&Sex Ed. from 2015-05-27T23:13:33
Was everyone in the past really a backwards racist? Dr Adam Rutherford guides us through the history of genetics looking at one of Darwin’s must unappealing cousins. And to save your faith in human...
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S04E2 In The Can from 2015-05-20T23:24:30
Is it better to die young or carry on and fizzle out? In this episode Ninja Brian (AKA Brian Wecht) talks about a famous kick ass mathmatician and Michael Legge discusses his favourite angry artist...
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S04E1 Typecast from 2015-05-13T23:16:14
Who was Huey Long and how did Tigger save lives? Getting to know people from history is tricky, particularly when heroes turn out to have rather horrid personal lives. Can we separate the art from ...
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S03E6 Mad Jack Churchill from 2015-03-16T12:19:29
In the last in this series, Qi Elf Stevyn Colgan celebrates the strangest soldiers of the second world war. How to stop a tank without a gun, plus the most original way to kill a Nazi and a bit of ...
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S03E5 The Devil's Library from 2015-03-12T00:01:35
Anna Savory is cursed. The curse has already claimed her father and grandmother. Now she delves into the pages of the Devil's library to uncover the last great English eccentric - Lord Berners. Mea...
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S03E4 They're watching you from 2015-03-05T01:02:41
S04E3 They're Watching You The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from History. Created by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence To help support the show please share it with your friends an...
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S03E3 Animalcules from 2015-02-26T01:00
S03E4 Animalcules WARNING: EXPLICIT - contains talk of things that gentlemen do to relieve tension. The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from History. Created by Iszi Lawrence @is...
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S03E2 Jest Kidding from 2015-02-19T00:01:59
S03E2 Jest Kidding The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from History. Created by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence To help support the show please share it with your friends and on soc...
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S03E1 Family Values from 2015-02-12T00:10:33
Series 3 Episode 1 Family Values The Z List Dead List is a podcast about obscure people from History. Created by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence To help support the show please share it with your frie...
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S02 Bonus Episode Diary Keeping from 2014-12-25T01:00
Series 2 BONUS EPISODE - Diary Keeping Oh no, last week's episode was the last in the series! However, I have put together a little bonus episode - not about a particular person from History but ab...
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S02E6 A Laing Opera from 2014-12-18T01:00
Series 2 Episode 6 A Laing Opera If you want to support the Z List Dead List please donate what you can via the Paypal button on the website. Even better than that, please share the podcast with yo...
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S02E5 Iron Pirates from 2014-12-10T23:59:29
Series 2 Episode 5 Iron Pirates If you want to support the Z List Dead List please donate what you can via the paypal button on the website. Even better than that, please share the podcast with you...
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S02E4 Death of a Double Act from 2014-12-04T01:00
Series 2 Episode 4 Death of a Double act If you want to support the Z List Dead List please donate what you can via the paypal button on the website. Even better than that, please share the podcast...
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S02E3 Experimental Cookery (om nom nom nom) from 2014-11-27T00:32:02
Series 2 Episode 3 Experimental Cookery Warning: a little bit ruder than usual this one. Please do continue to spread the word and share the podcast with your friends. Follow us on twitter @iszi_la...
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S02E2 Of Mice&Policemen from 2014-11-20T06:00
Series 2 Episode 2 Of Mice & Policemen Please do continue to spread the word and share the podcast with your friends. Follow us on twitter @iszi_lawrence and like our facebook page https//:www.face...
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S02E1 Frog In My Throat from 2014-11-13T00:19:33
Series 2 Episode 1 Frog In My Throat The first of a brand new series. Please do continue to spread the word and share the podcast with your friends. Or if you hated it, your enemies... The Z List D...
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Mind The Gap from 2014-10-16T06:00
Would you like to hear an interview with podcaster and comedian Richard Herring? Sign up to our mailing list and get your free download. www.zlistdeadlist.com Direct link to the mailing list: We w...
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S01E6 Hanging Out from 2014-10-09T06:00
Episode 6 Hanging Out This is the last of this series. WE WILL BE BACK in a few weeks! Please do continue to spread the word and share the podcast with your friends. Or if you hated it, your enemie...
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S01E5 The Internet Was Invented in 1860 from 2014-10-02T06:00
Episode 5 The Internet Was Invented in 1860 The Z List Dead List - a podcast about obscure people from history. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence www.zlistdeadlist.com Please do spread the wor...
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S01E4 The Most Famous Man In The World from 2014-09-25T06:00
Episode 4 The Most Famous Man In The World The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence. www.zlistdeadlist.com Please do spread the w...
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S01E3 Who did they think they were? from 2014-09-18T06:00
Episode 3 Who Did They Think They Were? The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence. www.zlistdeadlist.com Please do spread the word...
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S01E2 Did You Hear The One About The Angry Roman? from 2014-09-11T06:00
Episode 2: Did You Hear The One About The Angry Roman? The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by Iszi Lawrence @iszi_lawrence. In this episode we take a pee...
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S01E1 Cornish Pastors from 2014-09-04T10:00
Episode 1: Cornish Pastors The Z list Dead List - A podcast about obscure people from History. Hosted by comedian Iszi Lawrence. In this episode we take a trip down to Victorian Cornwall and discov...
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