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This week, the World-Weary women discuss strange science and tech! Cassiopeia looks at the gruesome experiments conducted in the search for a cure for Yellow Fever. A 1980's school teacher living in a haunted cottage communicates with a 16th century vicar and a "friend from 2109" via an early microcomputer: Violet discusses the time-warp-technology case of The Dodleston Messages.

This week, the World-Weary women question "What's in a name?" with a coincidental rivalry theme. Violet explains the conquests of the mighty samurai warlord, Uesugi Kenshin: how they came to be known as the "Dragon of Echigo" and their famous rivalry with the "Tiger of Kai". Cassiopeia looks at the 19th century's scientific "name and shame" war that started with a Prince of Botany and ended with feuding palaeontologists.

This week, the World-Weary women are back with a Spooky Somerset Special! Cassiopeia drops the local scandal on the circus magnate that demanded the return of a "Witch" skeleton to his spooky attraction, the Wookey Hole Caves. Violet investigates the dark history of the haunted beauty spot and ancient monument, Dead Woman's Ditch.