The Extra Legendary Bit: Public Executions, Coppers & Roland the Farter

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They didn't stop public hangings because people found them distasteful. They stopped them because the crowds kept rioting. Johnny and Gav on Britain's strangest spectator sport, and the few years when you could have taken in an execution and a football match on the same day. The Extra Legendary Bit is where Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods dive into your messages and uncover the gloriously unhinged tales sent in by the Bloomin' Legends nation. What You'll Hear in This Episode: ⚖️ The correction, and the pedantry it unleashed – Johnny owns the Thackeray error, explains how Peter Ackroyd's biography of London tripped him up, and discovers that being slightly wrong is the most…