{"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 005: Barbara Spencer: The Young Coiner of Cripplegate","slug":"episode-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate","published_at":"2026-06-15T00:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19339658-episode-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19339658-episode-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback Barbara Spencer is barely out of childhood when the world begins to shape her into something dangerous. Raised without restraint in the cramped lanes of Cripplegate, she is the kind of figure that Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals captures with unflinching clarity: a young woman too proud for servitude, too restless to stay still, drawn by temperament toward the edges of lawful life. Her drift into counterfeiting feels almost inevitable; a single act of defiance c...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback Barbara Spencer is barely out of childhood when the world begins to shape her into something dangerous. Raised without restraint in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":294,"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-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate/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-005-barbara-spencer-the-young-coiner-of-cripplegate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}