2.04: Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped like a rat! Or is he? — Lord Londonderry in the haunted castle! — Johanna rushes to her destiny!

IN WHICH —

0:06:50: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 53:

• In this chapter, Johanna grows maudlin and overwrought and starts wallowing in self-pity, and is nearly unbearable, even for her best friend Arabella. Arabella suggests they go for a walk; Johanna insists that it be in Fleet-street, and that they walk back and forth past Sweeney Todd’s shop door the whole time. Will he notice? What will happen?

0:26:50: ARTICLE from the TERRIFIC REGISTER, Page 10:

• In this short article from an 1825 true-crime journal, we have a ghost story — a legend of a haunted castle, the ghost of which appears to the Marquis of Londonderry one night.

0:41:00: BLACK BESS (starring Highwayman Dick Turpin), Ch. 15:

• In this chapter, A large party of policemen bursts into the room. They go straight to Turpin and seize him, they’re obviously mostly interested in him. A wild scuffle ensues, in the course of which Turpin manages to get to the door and, seeing the front door guarded by four cops, dashes up the stairs to the bedrooms. Will he be able to get away onto the rooftops? Or will he be trapped upstairs in this house like a rat? We’ll find out!

PLUS —

• Learn the meaning of "up the spout," "anglers," "pinks of fashion," "clankers," "heavy wet," "ack pirate," "iron doublets," "laced women," "a flicker or two," "greenbags," "shop lobbers," and a few other words of highway-robber slang, plus a quick mention of a few bits of the rhyming-slang lingo that replaced Flash after it became too well known to be useful for the underworld characters who used it professionally ....

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

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