4.16: In the lion’s den with Sweeney Todd! — The highwaymen witness a cowardly murder! — The Bloody Gardener’s Lament.

This is our hour-long Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode, the second of our two weekly shows. It comes in two parts, to-wit:

PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 44:30:

• 01:00: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A dentist pounced upon and nearly choked to death by a gang of thieves.
• 03:15: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 72-73: We look in on Arabella to see how she is handling her feelings of responsibility for Johanna’s recklessness. And the verdict is – not well. She can’t figure out what to do. She can’t leave her there, for she’ll get killed; she can’t tell Mr. Oakley; or talk to her friends. What to do? She decides — surprisingly, for her decisionmaking so far has been pretty bad — to do something really very smart and sensible: Lay the whole mess out before Sir Richard Blunt. Meanwhile, Johanna is getting the full import of what it is to be Sweeney Todd’s apprentice boy … how is she holding up? Better than you might have expected! But will it be good enough? We shall see …
• 33:30: CRIME BROADSIDE: The final hours of six petty criminals sacrificed to the brutal bloodlust of a barbaric age in Britain.
• 42:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: A man who murdered his wife for insurance money faced his execution with total sang-froid.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 00:00 — 00:00:

• 45:15: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 40: Dick Turpin and Tom King press on into the New Forest, hoping to find a place of refuge for the night. Just as they are about to give up and settle in for an uncomfortable night under a tree, King spots a light, deep in the forest. The highwaymen follow the light, hoping it will lead to a warm place to rest … instead, it leads them to a dark, silent hollow, at the bottom of which they see a gaunt figure, digging what looks like a shallow grave ….
• 1:08:30: SOME STREET POETRY from an 1830s “broadside”: "The Bloody Gardener’s Lament.”
• 1:15:45: A RATHER NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Mot” (about a prostitute contemplating the approach of retirement age)
• 1:21:30: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London, every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• GAMMONERS: Gamesters, gamblers, or confidence men.
• HIGH FLYERS: Tip-toppers, first-raters.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: A fancy toff or titled swell. Used here as a reference to Corinthian Tom, the quintessential Regency rake depicted in Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (usually referred to as "Tom and Jerry").
• CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• MOT: Whore or lady of easy virtue.
• PAD IT: In context of today’s bawdy song, to walk the street soliciting for a “john.”
• TOGGERY: Clothing.
• COUTER: A sovereign — a coin worth £1.
• KID: In the context of today’s bawdy song, a lover or playmate.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.