History X

Britain's infamous asylum. Haunting tales from England and Scotland. Listen to the podcast trailer and hear our multi-part full Bedlam episodes here recorded on location.

Bloodiest gangster in American history, Chicago. Host Joe Wojie visits Chicago on location with author Adam Selzer to investigate the Saint Valentines Day Massacre, specific locations of assassinations, prohibition war plans, and bloodshed in the city. Complexities of the gangster’s character and personality are uncovered: including Scarface as a diplomat, a businessman, a cultural philanthropist; intimate details of the Brooklyn native’s personal life; and his rise from a young New York enforcer to King of Chicago and Public Enemy #1.

We investigate Chicago’s Murder Castle. Host Joe Wojie visits Chicago to investigate Murder Castle and the love-life and killings of America’s first serial murderer, The White City Devil: Dr. HH Holmes. We analyze the serial murderer’s relationship with his girlfriends, his wives, and his daughter; as well as facets of his personality and what it would have been like to have known him or been in his presence. Ahead of the long-awaited Leonardo DiCaprio/ Martin Scorsese blockbuster on the subject NBC News Investigators subject experts Joe Wojie and Adam Selzer convene on the subject in terms of candid dark (and occasionally entertaining) truths. Gruesome details of the crimes are discussed. Taped on-location in Chicago with Adam Selzer: author of numerous book titles on HH Holmes.

Visit South Africa, QuaZulu-Natal. Revolution. Freedom. Host Joe Wojie transports you to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa on-location with Oxford University PhD Timothy Gibs to discuss his work and his life in Durban, South Africa before and after the fall of Apartheid. Doctor Gibs is a leading expert and has published widely on Nelson Mandela, and politics and culture in modern South Africa. We discuss at length the Nobel laureate; his politics, revolutionary struggles, imprisonment, the ANC, his rise to power and legacy in this, part I of II, on South African socio-economic and political change before and after 1994, and through 2020.

How far has South Africa come since universal suffrage 25 years ago? What’s the state of their economy, political culture; the standard of living? What’s it like to live there today? In the City? In the countryside? Journey with us to Durban and KwaZulu-Natal as we follow Dr. Timothy Gibs on a journey of discovery from urban to rural South Africa uncovering complexities of socio-economic and political change: including large-scale political assassinations, a culture of embezzlement and graft during the Jacob Zuma years, and a failing economy and troublesome crime rate amidst promising strides of greater social justice and equality.

The inspiration for AHS: Asylum, London. Host Joe Wojie visits the thousand year old madhouse that's been inspiration for horror films from Bram Stoker to American Horror Story. Recorded on location inside Bedlam Asylum, London England.

Peer inside the madhouse, London. A thousand year old madhouse; inspiration for Boris Karloff to American Horror Story- host Joe Wojie uncovers dark secrets in the archives, on location in London. Bedlam archivist David Luck shares creepy entertaining story telling of the English asylum. We travel to Scotland for more entertaining tales and education there.

Horror film inspiration for Bram Stoker and American Horror Story; host Joe Wojie uncovers truth from fiction about Bedlam Asylum on location in London England. Extended interview.

Whimsical. Dark. True. History of psychiatric medicine. History X Host Joe Wojie takes you on a journey of scientific discovery of some of the most bizarre medical and psychiatric cures from the past. This fact-pact studio episode in our Bedlam series is as entertaining as it is disturbing.

Interview and Riot Footage, Philadelphia. Hear original voices from inside Philadelphia's riot-zone as the city is set on fire by rioters and looters. Senator Troy Singleton discusses police brutality with host Joe Wojie amidst nationwide protests that continue to rock American cities. Original news and political discussion.