This week Byron explores that dark heart of crime and punishment, touring one of the Irish capital’s best loved historic buildings, Dublin’s Tower of Dublin.

Episode 6 – Dublin’s Tower of Dublin

Directions

This weeks tour begins at the entrance to the Tower of Dublin. The tower is built over the Tulip estuary on the historic grounds of Ballydowd Manor. The museum can be reached in about eleven minutes on foot from the city centre.

Credits

Image

Tower Bridge by vgm8383. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 Generic license.

Music

Public domain recording of Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade – Allegro giusto, nel modo russico senza allegrezza, by Petrovich Mussorgsky. Performed by Skidmore College Orchestra.

Creative Commons recording of the Bubu Cha Cha by Neurowaxx. Available under Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported license.

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All available under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

Dramatis Personae

Intro / Outro by the inimitable Mr. Nicholas Johnson.

Reading from ‘Tiger Note, a life in infamy’, by Elephant Creosote, courtesy Feminist Pornstar records.

Byron Frump as himself.

High Lynchman Fenian O’Connell as himself.

Vice torturer Edmond as himself.

Terry as himself.

Office Partée as himself.

Captain Marmaduke Fonteroy II, deceased, featured with kind permission of his family.

The Eyeless Boy cannot be named under the official secrets act.

Special Thanks

Dermot Byrne for production assistance and additional vocal talent.

No puppies were hurt during the making of this programme. Well, only the naughty ones.