Series Two

In addition to the main podcast, each week there will be a sound recording of an extract which complements the podcast. You are strongly encouraged to listen to the extract first before listening to the main podcast. We have also included a text-based version of the extract so that you can view it as you listen to the podcast. The extracts can be found by clicking here

  1. Introduction (Please note there is no additional audio extract this week)
  2. Becoming insane. George Trosse (1650s) [Extract 2.1] [Extract 2.2]
  3. Depression. Hannah Allen (1660s) [Extract 3.1]
  4. Obsession. Alexander Cruden (1739) [Extract 4.1]
  5. Religious lunacy. Dionys Fitzherbert (1610)  [Extract 5.1]
  6. Madness and genius. James Boswell (1778)  [Extract 6.1]
  7. Religion and recovery. William Cowper (1764) [Extract 7.1]
  8. Compulsive and delusional behaviour (1777) [Extract 8.1] John Philip (4 podcasts)
    1. A poor clerk and a society heiress
    2. John Philip’s point of view
    3. Trial and committal
    4. John’s fate and that of his victim
  9. Protection or control? Alice Hill, ‘an idiot’ (1730s, 1740s)   [Extract 9.1]
  10. A ‘silent madness’. Hugh Blair (1747)  [Extract 10.1]
  11. Attempted suicide. William Cowper (1763)  [Extract 11.1]
  12. Suicide 1. Letters, diaries, and notes in the National Archives of Scotland[Extract 12.1] [Extract 12.2] [Extract 12.3] [Extract 12.4] [Extract 12.5] [Extract 12.6] [Extract 12.7] [Extract 12.8] [Extract 12.9]
  13. Suicide 2. A London coroner’s inquest verdict, 1791 [Extract 13.1]
  14. Being an asylum patient 1: Cardiff Asylum regulations, 1919  [Extract 14.1]
  15. Being an asylum patient 2: Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, late 19th century     [Extract 15.1]
  16. Being an asylum patient 3a: Herman Charles Merivale admitted to Ticehurst, 1875    [Extract 16.1]
  17. Being an asylum patient 3b: Herman Charles Merivale at Ticehurst, 1875  [Extract 17.1]
  18. Being an asylum patient 4: Christian Watt at Aberdeen Royal Mental Asylum, 1877  [Extract 18.1]
  19. Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862 [Extract 19.1]
  20. Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738  [Extract 20.1]
  21. Living with madness 2: an insane murderer, 1727 [Extract 21.1]
  22. Shell shock. ‘War Neuroses: Netley Hospital, 1917  [Watch Film Clip]