{"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":19,"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":"2026-09-15T02:17:49.215118+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 018: James Shaw: Highwayman and Murderer of the Hampstead Road","slug":"episode-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road","published_at":"2026-09-14T12:02:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19792833-episode-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19792833-episode-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback James Shaw is a man who cannot settle. Born into a family with the means to set him on a respectable path, he drifts through one trade after another, never sticking, never satisfied; Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals captures him at the precise moment restlessness curdles into something far more dangerous. He blames a negligent wife, he blames circumstance, but beneath every excuse lies a temperament that finds honest labour unbearable. It is a story that belongs ...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback James Shaw is a man who cannot settle. Born into a family with the means to set him on a respectable path, he drifts through one tra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":306,"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-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road/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-018-james-shaw-highwayman-and-murderer-of-the-hampstead-road.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}