#147 – Resistance: The Last Fight of Countess Lubieńska (Kensington, London, England)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is about Countess Łubieńska, a formidable woman who endured a life of unspeakable horrors, and yet she never stopped fighting for the rights of others. But when a simple night-out turned deadly, her last fight... would be for her life.
- Date: Friday 24th May 1957, at 10:19pm
- Location: Platform 5 of Gloucester Road tube station, London, UK, W8
- Victims: 1 (Countess Teresa Łubieńska, nee Skarżyńska)
- Culprits: Unknown
- Keywords: assassination, Polish, war, WW2, Blitz, tube,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:13.4 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within |
| 0:20.2 | and beyond the West End. |
| 0:23.9 | Today's episode is about Countess Lubyenska, a formidable woman who endured a life of unspeakable horrors, |
| 0:32.8 | and yet she never stopped fighting for the rights of others. |
| 0:37.4 | But when a simple night out turned deadly, her last fight, never stopped fighting for the rights of others. |
| 0:38.1 | But when a simple night out turned deadly, her last fight would be for her life. |
| 0:45.3 | Murder Marley's research used in authentic sources. |
| 0:48.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature |
| 0:56.7 | loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel |
| 1:03.6 | like you're actually there. My name is Michael, I am your tour guide and this is Murder Mile. Episode 147. |
| 1:17.6 | Resistance. The last fight of Countess Lubyenska. |
| 1:34.7 | Today, I'm standing at the Gloucester Road tube station, SW7. |
| 1:43.3 | Two streets east of the Polish super spy Christina Scarbeck, four streets northwest of the Devil Child's Home Invasion, directly opposite the basement |
| 1:48.0 | where John George Haig dissolved the entire McSwan family in a drum of acid, and three |
| 1:54.0 | streets from the infamous killings of a misunderstood young man. |
| 1:59.0 | Coming soon to Murder Mile. |
| 2:06.0 | This is Platform 5 of the eastbound Piccadilly Line Service at Gloucester Road, with the |
| 2:11.6 | surface station opened in 1868 and the deep level lines in 1906. following a recent refurbishment, much of this |
| 2:20.3 | tube stop remains unchanged. |
| 2:23.3 | With its ornate titling, its deep green and cream tiles, its blood-red surface station, and |
| 2:30.3 | its wonderfully arched platforms down below. Aesthetically, it's actually quite beautiful. |
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