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The London Monster
A flesh and blood monster stalks the streets of London, causing bloodshed, outrage and mass hysteria. James and Alasdair meet innocent victims, scurrilous liars and the 18th Century’s greatest prankster.
Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.
Featured images: “The monster going to take his afternoons luncheon” etching by J. Gillray, 1790. Credit: Wellcome Collection
(CC BY 4.0) & “The monster disappointed of his afternoons luncheon-or porridge-potts preferable to cork-rumps.” etching by J. Gillray, 1790. Credit: British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)