This week we visit Sligo County, Ireland on a June day in 2009. Today we’re not the only tourists in town.. Who was the mysterious Peter Bergmann (or failing that) why did he go to Sligo, of all places to die?
Content Warnings: Suicide, terminal illness, spousal abuse, marriage breakups, wartime violence - including assassination, espionage and torture.
Sources Include:
The Unsolved Mystery of Peter Bergmann by Rosita BolandThings Fall Apart: The Apocalyptic Appeal of W.B. Yeats The Second Coming by Dorian Lynskey The Man Who Deleted His Past Before He Was Found Dead by Francisco GarciaOur Man in Vienna by Panagiotis DimitrakisMilitary Conscription in Austria by Anat PeledRosses Point from Discover IrelandRosses Point History and Folklore at Rosses point’s website
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26 Aug 2026
Mad Jack Churchill
This week we’re all over the map, from Burma in the midst of the Saya San Rebellion, to the Island of Brač in the former Yugoslavia, to Britain’s Severn river. We follow the mad, occasionally performative life of Mad Jack Churchill - quite possibly the last man to kill an enemy combatant in war with a longbow.
Content Warnings: Wartime violence, prisoner of war camps, colonial violence and forced migration.
Sources Include:More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived by Paul KirchnerShattered Lands by Sam DalrympleThese interviews with Jack from the Imperial War MuseumMad Jack Churchill… at War History Online, by Christian Oord.
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8 Aug 2026
The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - Two
This week, on Tales we return to Nuremberg, Bavaria: Last month I warned you the Tale of Kaspar Hauser is no fairytale.. This time we ask, what if it is more like a fairytale than we take for granted - just we often misunderstand those old kids’ stories? Part Two of a Two parter.
Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception.
Apologies all, this has been held up by me catching a nasty nasal infection that has taken weeks to clear… For a while, at least I think we should be back on a fortnightly schedule - or close to it.
Sources Include:
Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von FeuerbachThe Great Pretenders by Jan BondersonNapoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
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