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.
Episode 023: Richard Whittingham: The Young Footpad of London's Streets
Send us your Feedback Richard Whittingham is barely past boyhood when he abandons his apprenticeship and steps into London's criminal underworld. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals recounts, his downfall begins not with malice but with weakness: an easy temper exploited by the wrong company and the relentless demands of women who trade affection for coin.
His story is the kind of true crime narrative that reveals how quickly a young life can unravel in Georgian London. Whittingham is...
12 Oct 2026
Episode 022: Thomas Reeves: The Notorious Highwayman and Footpad
Send us your Feedback Thomas Reeves is raised with every advantage a tradesman's son could hope for: an indulgent father, a respectable apprenticeship, and a clear path forward. But as Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, the young tinman falls under the influence of men who mock religion and treat morality as nothing more than a convenient fiction.
It is a corruption of the mind before it becomes a corruption of the hands. This true crime account captures the precise moment a y...
5 Oct 2026
Episode 021: John Thomson: Sailor Turned Highway Robber
Send us your Feedback John Thomson grows up in London among dishonest company, learning the taste of easy money before he ever learns a trade. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals records how this weaver's apprentice abandons his loom for the sea, where years of plunder and bloodshed remake him into something harder than the boy who left the shore.
When Thomson finally returns to land, the violence he has absorbed does not stay at sea. His story is the kind of true crime account that reve...
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