{"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 007: Matthew Clark: The Cowardly Footpad Who Turned Killer","slug":"episode-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer","published_at":"2026-06-29T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19409211-episode-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19409211-episode-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback Matthew Clark is the kind of figure who makes true crime so unsettling: not a mastermind, not a hardened villain, but a lazy, cowardly young man whose small vices compound into something monstrous. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals introduces him as a creature formed entirely from the worst impulses of low life; idle, drunk, driven by lust, and too timid to commit even the crimes he plans. Born in St. Albans to parents of modest means, Clark squanders every opport...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback Matthew Clark is the kind of figure who makes true crime so unsettling: not a mastermind, not a hardened villain, but a lazy, coward…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":423,"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-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer/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-007-matthew-clark-the-cowardly-footpad-who-turned-killer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}