HOW VERY INTERESTING WITH DAVE CASH: Recent Episodes
Stephen Faragher
Join Dave Cash each month for tales of history, mystery, people and places from our region as well as weird and wonderful news stories from around the world.
In this episode we revisit episode 1 by re-telling the story of Liverpool's worst rail disaster at Liverpool St James Station followed by a light-hearted look at reports of river monsters in the Mersey.
The episode is closed out with some of the funniest news stories from around the world ever featured on this show.
Music: Lightless Dawn by Kevin McCleod and Mystic Forests
In this episode, Dave Cash will be discussing the Victorian murder spree of the so-called 'Black Widows' of Liverpool before talking about the 1793 Pelican disaster which, to date, ended with the single greatest loss of life on the River Mersey.
Finally, we will be exploring the weird and wonderful news making headlines around the world in our regular round up.
Joining Dave Cash for this Halloween Special episode is Alex Shankland, paranormal investigator and member of the Society for Psychical Research (The SPR). In addition, find out about the spectral clow that is said to terrify visitors to Flaybrick Memorial Gardens in Birkenhead.
Finally, rounding out the show there is the usual run down of weird and wonderful headlines making the news around the world, only with a spooky Halloween twist.
Join me for episode 13 as I explore the wonderful hidden yet endangered world of Wirral artist Ron Gittins who sadly passed away in 2019 leaving behind an extraordinary legacy.
Also, I try to answer the question; do big cats roam Merseyside and Cheshire? I look at sightings and the case for and against their existence.
Plus great music and one of the best stories I've ever featured on the News Roundup too!
In this episode, I revisit the worst peacetime fire disaster in Liverpool's history and also explore some of the heroism that undoubtedly saved lives during this terrible chapter in the book of Liverpool.
I also have a look at more shipwrecks around Merseyside including the MV Sarsia, a relatively modern wreck well known to Birkenhead residents.
Also, there are some weird stories in this month's News Roundup. Enjoy!
This episode looks at the infamous WW2 bombing of the college on Durning Road in Liverpool and also the so-called birthplace of The Beatles, Kensington's Percy Phillips Studio.
As always we have a selection of weird and wonderful new stories from around the world including junior ghost hunters, a murder mystery and more.
The Halloween Special includes listeners ghost stories, the brilliant Haunted Scouse TV from YouTube and a spooky themed news roundup! Plus a Halloween themed selection of music to DIE FOR!!! Mwahahahaha!
A special episode featuring an interview with Neil Holmes, author of Merseyside Blitzed, Liverpool Blitzed and Echoes of the Liverpool Blitz, about the World War Two bombing raids over Liverpool and Wirral. Plus the usual round up of weird news stories making headlines around the world and some great music too.
On this show we talk about the career and calamities of the SS Great Eastern as well as its final days on the Wirral shore plus we explore the semi-abandoned island of Stanlow. Plus there's a lot of knob jokes in our roundup.
In this episode, we investigate the strange hum that has been plaguing residents of an evening as well as checking in with author, historian, YouTuber, public speaker and more; Gavin Chappell. Plus, the news roundup has to feature one of the best news stories of the year!
This episode takes a look at the long unsolved murder of Alice Barton in Wirral and the 'other' fire brigade The Liverpool Salvage Corps as well as the usual run down of weird and wonderful news stories making the headlines the world over.
A very special episode featuring ghostly goings on in New Ferry, Wirral and a creature in Bidston that may or may not be a werewolf. Also dolls and theatrical spooks
In this episode I take a look at the tall tale of the Childe of Hale and the Liverpool origins of Candyman... and a foul mouthed duck
We explore the wrecks off the coast of Merseyside then meet YouTubes own Raider of the Lost History, Ollie from Bee Here Now
In this episode we take a look at the Impossible Murder of Anfield from almost a century ago before taking a walk on a beach to see the Ainsdale Anomaly. Is it a sea monster?
OK, it's not great but it could be worse. Episode one looks at a Mersey Tunnel mystery. Was there another tunnel under the Mersey centuries ago? And we take a look at the lesser known Liverpool train crash disaster of 1913.