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Life During the Black Death Pandemic

Episode number: 1

Overview: The Professor recounts what the Black Death was like, consulting a rat and Death himself.

Stealing The World's Most Expensive Necklace

Episode number: 2

Overview: The Professor delves into an old catfishing scheme and the role it played in parting a queen with her head.

Surviving the Titanic: History's Luckiest Woman

Episode number: 3

Overview: A White Star Line employee survived the sinking of both the Titanic and its sister ship - what do the Professor and a notorious propeller have to say about it?

The Dancing Plague

Episode number: 4

Overview: In the season finale, the Professor talks dancing mania in Strasbourg in 1518, the famous incident where those people in France danced till they died.