Turns out the archetypal femme fatale - lying and manipulating hapless men into their black widow spun webs of duplicitousness - is absolutely true...at least for these confidence lasses. This week the people are not just mendacious - they're women-dacious. Neither Jess not guest host Rosie will apologise for puns as we flim flam you into listening about women pretending to be royalty, selling snake oil or just generally, unapologetically scamming so many men you earn the moniker Confidence Queen.

Have you ever ended up with more national monuments than you have space in your living room and therefore need to sell on eBay? Got a magical country surprisingly in need of wealthy citizens? Neither did any of these men, but they didn't let this hold them back. Join Jess and Philippa as they look at everyone's favourite scheming shyster: the confidence man.

Last episode, we looked at the connections between women and Satan. This week, it's time to look at what Rush Limbaugh oh so wittily refers to as witches with a "B". And how do women take control of such patriarchal narratives and redirect them to their own ends? And how does the successful witch keep her penis collection alive? Join Philippa and Jess as they ask the important questions.

Evil deceiver or Romantic individualist? A monster of shifting boundaries or a cosmic force that transcends duality? This week, Jess and Philippa look at one of history's most enigmatic figures: Satan himself. Throughout history, we've been asking ourselves: is he really all that bad? And why are women just unable to keep their hands off of him?

In our last episode, we looked at the beauty regimes of the upper classes. But what if you don't have an infinite supply of arsenic bath bombs? Or a bath? Or easy access to water? Jess and Philippa wallow amongst the lower classes of Victorian London to look at the methods by which they kept clean, and the ways in which efforts to assist them led to a new hobby for all.

Water is dangerous - and nowhere more so than in the bath. In a world dominated by the great unwashed - the putrid proletariat - the upper classes fought to preserve a modicum of decency while fending off sudsy perils. Join us this week for clean conversation and Jess's disturbing skin song.

Was one atrocious failure of an expedition not enough? Want to hear about another wannabe explorer who set out into brutal conditions woefully unprepared in order to beat a more experienced explorer to the goal? While they were dismally short on supplies, the world has a bounty of idiots, and so this week Jess and Philippa set out into the outback to follow the trail of Robert O'Hara Burke as he journeyed to the north of Australia, gong in hand.

When you decide to go on a road trip do you prioritise transportation, supplies, and company? If so, you're three steps ahead of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an almost university drop-out on a dangerous expedition. This week, Jess and Philippa compare travel plans as they dive into the deep dark of the Arctic winter and the merry snow ball fights that you can get up to when you're trapped on the ice.

This Wednesday, we're taking a break to explore the steamy realm of Victorian literature. Just what did the Queen's subjects find sultry enough to risk hairy palms and imminent death by consumption?

Join Jess and Philippa as they read from The Pearl, a magazine devoted to publishing erotic material towards the end of the 1800s before they were shut down by the authorities. For obvious reasons, these readings should not be considered safe for work or human decency.

Too taboo to even refer to the act outright, the Victorians wrote reams on the solitary vice, using whatever euphemisms they had to hand. This week, Jess and Philippa exercise similar tact and sensitively explore the act of riding the mayonnaise surf as well as the steps that the Victorians took to stem the tide.