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The Z List Dead List
Will you be remembered after you're dead? The Z List Dead List, a podcast about obscure people from History, hosted by Iszi Lawrence.
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S12E06 ATA GIRL!
While researching Billie Swift Takes Flight Iszi discovered the story of Diana Barnato Walker - a world record setting pilot who flew Spitfires during...
S12E05 Gertie The Dinosaur
When a dinosaur obsession works out. Victoria Coules has the best PHD going. She is researching representations of Paleontology in media. This means s...
S12E04 A Sore-Footed Success. The life of Florence Price.
Were all composers white men with powdered wigs? The shocking truth is no, of course they weren't. Iszi speaks to Elizabeth de Brito of The Daffodil P...
S12E03 Cry Hard with a Vision
I worry I may have been too positive about Margery Kempe. I do find her fascinating, not just because she offers a glimpse into life in the early 15th...
S12E02 The Story of Sarah Baartman
Kim Kardashian is now famously a billionaire, mostly from successful promoting and selling shapewear underwear which she promotes using her ass-sets....
S12E01 Maggotty Headed
'He was a shiftless person, roving and maggotty-headed, and sometimes a little better than crazed. And being exceedingly credulous would stuff his man...
Terrible Lizards Trailer
No episode this month BECAUSE I've been working on another podcast. I know. It is all about dinosaurs and this is just a small taster. Go to for more...
S11E19 Dead Kean
Brill performance by Greg Jenner - author of the BRAND NEW book Dead Famous - and host of the You're Dead To Me Podcast. His performance is nearly as...
BONUS EPISODE WITH BECHDEL CAST
Unusual episode where I guest on The Bechdel Cast where Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus put movies to the Bechdel Test. This episode was recorded liv...
S11E17 A Very British Spiderman
No violence, all charm, this podcast isn't about Marvel, but it is of a man who marvels at the smallest and least understood creatures. For more info...
S11E16 I find this pig GUILTY
History is full of criminals, and some are not human. Here is a tale of animals of the past, some guilty, some innocent all judged by the LAW. And all...
S11E15 The Serial Killer at No.45
If you live in Reading, you've probably heard of Amelia Dyer. She was the most prolific of all British serial killers and dumped the bodies in the c...
S11 E14 Woe To The Conquered
The man who conquered all of Rome... although Rome at the time was the size of Deddington. Still it is nice to beat the Romans, despite their well tra...
S11 E13 Troy Story - Heroes Gods and Amazons!
What does it take to be a hero? Nowadays rescuing others, not being a coward, or just standing up for you principles seems to be the key. In the Troja...
S11 E12 The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece
The odds are never a problem if you own half the racers. This is a story of a populist who brought down his own people. Born into wealth and unrivalle...
S11 E11 The Infinite Baker Kage
Accidentally predicting the future in her sci fi novels, Kage Baker's books set alight to the dork celebrator extraordinaire, comedian Jackie Kashian....
S11 E10 Real Men
Was Dr James Barry a pioneering transman or was she an insanely driven genius woman who sacrificed everything, even her own identity for her career? I...
S11E09 REJUVENATE!
Was Otto Overbeck an abject failure? A brilliant polymath? A Quack? An Abuser? Iszi and James Stark explore the curious career of a bizarre creature w...
S11E08 Wild Orange Whitehouse Man
Who knew laying cable could be so difficult? This isn't an episode about eating more fibre, it is about fibre optic's predecessor. The telegraph and h...
S11E07 Pouring Bees on Vikings
MERRY CHRISTMAS! And what could be more festive than talk of pious Christians finally overcoming their pagan occupiers by clever use of marrying enemy...
S11E06 Her Name Wasn't Lola
She's Irish, Spanish, American and Mistress to the King of Bavaria married 3 times, Dancer, actress, lecturer, author and murderer? Iszi thinks so. Do...
S11E05 Peach Baskets
This is not a very Z List episode if you are already a Basketball fan but I'm guessing, not many of us history nerds are... Steve Cross is tho! He ex...
S11E04 The 19th Century Kim Kardashian
What has Pears Soap, a soprano, bell ringing orphans, a lesbian affair, ritual dowsing, litigation and a Monkey called Mr Titileehee have to do with t...
S11E03 Tough As Old Boots with Alice Fraser
How do 6 stolen boots, a snake and drawing lots result in a man being eaten? Welcome to the horrible tale of Alexander Pearce 1790-1824. Who would eat...
S11E02 The Terror of the Taxi Cab with Jo Caulfield
The cry Mother Prodgers! echoes around the streets. Cab drivers flee, leaving the stand empty but for Mrs Caroline Giacometti Prodgers the nemesis of...
S11E01 What are you Like? with Mitch Benn
Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. So why was he deliberately written out of history? Mitch Benn explain...
S10 E9 A F*!#ing Genius with Irving Finkel
Think you're clever? Maybe you are: but are you a GENIUS? Irving Finkel doubts it. There is only one man this curator gives that label to and it is Ed...
S10E08 The Typo That Won The War With Florence Schecter
Do you know the difference between a cryptogamist and a cryptogramist? No? Well it turns out that, during the Second World War, someone in the Ministr...
S10E07 The Mind Behind Einstein with Michael Conterio
the most important woman in the history of mathematics... possibly the most important PERSON. So why have you never heard of her? For any questions su...
S10E6 Ferguson's Gang with Lucy Porter
Peggy Pollard's life sounds so made up its ridiculous... borne to the upper classes, a genius scholar, criminally minded fundraiser, a brilliant seams...
S10E5 Victorian Poo with Paul Duncan McGarrity
London is full of it. Poo. Someone worked out that having it slosh about the streets wasn't ideal. And Paul Duncan McGarrity loves him. Learn how one...
S10E04 Sin Eaters With Bob Mills
Bob Mills is one of Iszi's favourite people. He is an hilarious comedian, talented broadcaster and has the best Nanana in History. Prepare yourself fo...
S10E03 Deutero Paul With Adam Mastroianni
Iszi talks about her work on Making History, Music Hall, her mother in a wheelbarrow, The Other Winston Churchill (there were two) and Adam Mastroiann...
S10E02 The Real Rights of Man with Ben Alsop
What happens if you are outshone by your contemporaries. While Thomas Paine was busy changing the world, another man, also called Thomas was trying to...
S10E01 Drinking From Skulls With Paul Sinha
2018 brings a new format to the Z List Dead List - the regular episode will appear as usual (usually the third thursday of the month) but iszi is hopi...
S09E05 Worm Doctors and Monkey Glands
Struggling in the bedroom? Would some Monkey Glands help? Comedian Bethany Black on the surgical implant business of pre war Europe.. Plus! Ever had...
S09E4 The Witch of UCL
Who really won the first world war? The Z List Dead List Halloweeeeen episode usually features a witch, and this episode is no exception. Brenna Hasse...
S09E3 A Live Recording of the Show!
Special Episode - listen to a live recording of the Z List Dead List. Find out who invented the Ultramarathon... before the Marathon! Who survived a s...
S09E02 Daughter of God
Curing people with magic tea bags, preparing Jesus's house and ensuite shower, eating apples in the actual garden of eden... welcome to the most Briti...
S09E1 Broads Abroad
Which intrepid spinster was best buddies with Rudyard Kipling and fought off hungry leopards? Which woman judo chopped a Nazi to death? John Lloyd (Cr...