43. Catharine Murphy - Money Maker
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
BBC
4.7 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Worsley is back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the audacious and surprising crimes of swindlers, hustlers and women on the make. Women trying to make it in a world made for men.
Producer: Jane Greenwood Readers: Clare Corbett and Jonathan Keeble Sound design: Chris Maclean Executive producer: Kirsty Hunter
A StoryHunter production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | October 2012. |
| 0:03.0 | My registry service. |
| 0:04.0 | Seven people are caught in a devastating house fire. |
| 0:07.0 | There's people inside? |
| 0:09.0 | Over 12 years later, the only survivor Dr. Abdul Shakur is still searching for answers. |
| 0:15.0 | Why my family? Why? |
| 0:17.0 | How did it happen? |
| 0:18.0 | I pledged to bring those responsible to justice. |
| 0:21.4 | And was the investigation compromised from the start? |
| 0:24.4 | There could be evidence that's being interfered with. |
| 0:26.8 | Crime next door. Who killed the Chaucour's? |
| 0:29.9 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.9 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.9 | You're about to listen to a brand new series of Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley. |
| 0:42.5 | New episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:45.7 | but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes a week early, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:54.2 | Welcome to Lady Swindlers with me, Lucy Worsley, |
| 0:58.6 | where true crime meets history with a twist. |
| 1:07.9 | Join me and my all-female team of detectives as we travel back more than a hundred years |
| 1:13.4 | to revisit the audacious crimes of swindlers, hustlers and women on the make. |
| 1:20.8 | Women who are trying to make it in a world made for men. |
| 1:25.3 | What do their lives and crimes tell us about women in the past and how different |
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