We’re off to Norfolk for a relatively unknown but legally significant story from early Victorian England. The tale begins at Felbrigg Hall where the respected and prestigious Windham family have ruled the roost for centuries. But are they prepared for the brewing scandal that awaits?

Keen listeners may remember talk of Joanna Southcott’s box of prophecies and how it led to the rallying cry of Bedford’s Panacea Society: ‘Open the box!’ This episode the whole mad shebang returns to our attention in the most surprising of ways - in relation to a poltergeist case in Cambridgeshire.

We’re off to Essex this episode for the story of George Pickingill, a cunning man revered as one of the most powerful wizards of Essex. He was also known as Old Picky, and perhaps more improbably still, as the oldest man in England!