100. The Real Roxie & Velma
Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling
BBC
4.3 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Happy centenary, Living Legends! We’re celebrating with a Chicago-themed case, looking at the real-life women who inspired the characters of Roxie Hart & Velma Kelly.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.2 | Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | I like when a manager wears a suit and tides, you know what I mean? |
| 0:09.7 | In 2025, we were here for the football. |
| 0:13.0 | The Wayne Rooney Show |
| 0:14.0 | As a manager, you're making decisions on what you're seeing on the pitch. |
| 0:16.9 | Sometimes it doesn't always pay off. |
| 0:18.3 | Football daily. |
| 0:19.4 | Loyalty in football. Does it still exist? There is no loyalty in football does it still exist there is no loyalty |
| 0:22.8 | in football and tunie and russo |
| 0:24.9 | do you feel like the pressure actually |
| 0:26.4 | helps you play the best football |
| 0:28.2 | we've prepared ourselves to step out onto the pitch |
| 0:30.6 | at the end of the day get the best of |
| 0:32.3 | 2025 with podcasts on |
| 0:34.6 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.3 | We're travelling to America today to April 1924. |
| 0:51.1 | The Jazz Age is in full swing, an era of lawlessness, debauchery and hedonism. |
| 0:55.6 | This week we find ourselves right at the centre of that debauchery. in a city synonymous with the roaring 20s. I am of course talking about Chicago. In this town, |
| 1:03.4 | gangsters run the show. The bootlegging turf wars between Al Capone, George Bugs, Moran and other |
| 1:09.5 | mobsters have transformed the streets into a virtual war zone. |
| 1:13.3 | Meanwhile, speak-easies and illegal jazz clubs are popping up on every street corner. |
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