{"podcast":{"title":"Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals","slug":"lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","podcast_index_feed_id":7851653,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2616179.rss","website_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/v1152h5un11qdzxts4md3km6c05t?.jpg","author":"Dark Stories","episode_count":8,"summary":"Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals is a true crime podcast unlike any other; because every word of it was written nearly 300 years ago. Each week, we read aloud one chapter from a remarkable book first published in London in 1735: a sprawling collection of murderers, highwaymen, coiners, housebreakers, pirates and worse, recorded in vivid and unsparing detail. The crimes are real. The voices are authentic. And the world they reveal, brutal, strange, and surprisingly familiar, has been waiting three centuries to be heard again. True crime did not begin with podcasts. It began here by the burning light of a candle.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T00:19:40.894239+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 003: William Barton: The Highwayman Who Could Not Stay Still","slug":"episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still","published_at":"2026-06-01T00:02:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19263310-episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19263310-episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback William Barton is born with restlessness in his blood. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, his father abandons him as a child, fleeing to Jamaica with a concubine and a hold full of goods; the boy grows up in his grandfather's eating-house, surrounded by comfort he cannot bring himself to accept. This is true crime at its most unsettled: a young man who cannot sit still, who trades a safe apprenticeship for the open sea and trades the sea for soldiering...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback William Barton is born with restlessness in his blood. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, his father abandons him a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":547,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episodes/episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-003-william-barton-the-highwayman-who-could-not-stay-still.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}