Join Ben Maloney, Hugh McCarron, and Fay Lenner, as they take an epic journey through world history to discuss cryptic curiosities, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre phenomena that we are yet to understand. Dealing with the weird, the wacky, and the wonderful, this podcast will bring to light peculiar stories you'd never believe, traversing a range of topics from monsters to memory, pistols to pastry, and much more besides. New episodes every Monday!
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Ben Maloney
As a young harpsichordist and organist, Ben's ongoing isolation from ordinary society has long fuelled his hatred for the rest of humanity. Ben completed a degree in music at the University of York where he unfortunately met Hugh and Fay; he has now gone on to study for a masters (or half of one) in the stunning city of Manchester, at the RNCM. As well as playing outdated music, Ben is also an enthusiastic barbershopper, and loves nothing more than ringing chords with his quartet 'Man's Best Blend' or chorus: MUBS. In his spare time, Ben also enjoys a spot of sailing and a good political moan.
Hugh McCarron
Being from a small town in the wilderness of Derbyshire, Hugh was always pressed to find niche forms of entertainment. His childhood hobbies consisted of tinkling the ivories, making wooden spears, and painting odd-looking buildings and odd-looking people. Still recovering from veganism, Hugh enjoys the odd steak in the shadows, and recently found his inner Willy Wonka working at a chocolate factory. He met these two deviants - Fay and Ben - whilst studying in York; ever since, they’ve been involved in all manner of outlandish behaviour. One might say, they are like three peas in a pod(cast).
Fay Lenner
Fay first became acquainted with Ben and Hugh during a dramatisation of the works of Irish author James Joyce, in which she skilfully portrayed a goat. As a primary school teacher, Fay now imparts her (limited scope of) knowledge on unsuspecting nine-year-olds, and being a classically trained violinist, likes to spend her spare time practising the viola. Alongside this, she speaks fluent Hungarian, and crochets blankets in preparation for being a grandmother. Fay is very often required to bring matriarchal harmony to the trio, and to restrain the ensuing chaos.