Host Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Corin Throsby and Comedian Ed Gamble to look at the role and development of vampire characters throughout 19th century Gothic literature and its continuing effect on pop culture today. Which vampire character is based on infamous bad boy Lord Byron? Who was the first vampire character to have fangs? And in case you ever need to know, just how many ways are there to kill a vampire?
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Agatha Christie
Leonardo da Vinci (Live)
Victorian Bodybuilding
The Rise of the Tudors
Cleopatra
Al Andalus
The Jacobites
Atlantis
Sarah Bernhardt
The Columbian Exchange
Frederick Douglass
Vital Electricity
The Indus Civilisation
Early Medieval Papacy
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Grainne O’Malley (Radio Edit)
Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine (Radio Edit)
The Asante Empire (Radio Edit)
Prohibition in the USA (Radio Edit)
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