A half-hour- long Tuesday Twopenny Terrible Minisode IN WHICH —

0:02:40: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin's adventures), Ch. 16:

• In which: Highwayman Dick Turpin is in a bit of a tight spot. He’s slipped away from the highway and hid in the darkness of a hedgerow, turning the stolen horse loose with a slap on the rump. But the grabs are closing in, until … wait, is that the spectre horseman again? He looks just like Dick, he’s dressed just like Dick … Who is he? Is he really a spectre? Can’t be, the cops sure can see him, and they’re racing away after him … will he lead them away from Dick? We shall see.

0:22:40: THE BALLAD OF BET BLOWSY:

• An especially spicy supper-club song, regularly sung at Offley's Burton Ale Rooms in the early 1830s, about a waterfront prostitute and her disappointed would-be customer. This song may actually be the earliest reference to a "shart" in English-language history (it probably isn't, though).

0:25:40: TERRIFIC REGISTER, pg. 29:

• "A Broken Heart." This article references the execution of Jemmy Dawson, a participant in the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, and the grief of his pretty fiancee upon his execution for treason. Includes a reading of William Shenstone's ballad written on the case.

PLUS —

• A miscellany of flash-cant words and other tidbits of late-Regency and early-Victorian life!

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a half-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!