Burke & Hare Audiobook (Free)

This is actually the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Scottish grave robbers who weren’t Scottish and didn’t rob graves. They were in fact Irish, so that as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh’s anatomists became rather hard work, they just got to murdering people-usually their neighbors-for income. In collaboration with their common-law wives, they set about supplying corpses for Dr. John Knox, an eminent Scottish doctor, with considerable excitement and gusto. The play comes after their business exploits from small origins, through their times of peak result, and to the last reckoning-set against a global that is getting recognizably modern.