Bonus - Kate Webster: The Real Life Sweeney Todd
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Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Thanks to ‘NOW’, and the new show ‘The Nevers’, we’re taking all you spooky bitches on a trip to Victorian London for an extra special bonus episode. And it’s a wild one...in fact, today’s episode resulted in one of the most sensational trials of the time - so big, that the future King of Sweden made the trip all the way to The Old Bailey just to watch!
In January 1879 Mrs Julia Martha Thomas hired Kate Webster, a petty criminal, to be her live-in maid. A month later Mrs Thomas’s neighbours would complain of a foul stench coming from the woman’s home. Things only became weirder when Kate was seen wearing her boss’s clothes and allegedly selling jars of ‘Best Dripping’ to pub landlords…
Was Kate Webster the real-life Sweeney Todd?
Strap yourself in for theft, murder, an interesting stew, and even a cameo from the great Sir David Attenborough.
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| 0:00.0 | Guess what? |
| 0:01.0 | What? |
| 0:02.0 | We're going on tour. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:05.0 | And not just any alter. |
| 0:06.5 | Not just any alter. |
| 0:07.5 | We are going on our first ever red handed crosses the pond for a North American tour. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.6 | You asked us and we took many years to deliver. |
| 0:18.1 | But we have done it. |
| 0:19.5 | And when I say done it, I mean we have achieved visas. |
| 0:22.6 | The tour obviously has not happened yet. |
| 0:24.3 | But when it does happen, we will be coming to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. |
| 0:29.7 | LA, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Royal Oak, Toronto, Washington, Philadelphia, |
| 0:36.8 | Boston and New York City, baby. |
| 0:39.9 | So start spreading the news. |
| 0:42.2 | We're leaving in quite a few weeks. |
| 0:44.9 | But tickets are on sale right now. |
| 0:47.7 | They make excellent Christmas presents. |
| 0:49.5 | They do indeed. |
| 0:50.5 | So we will be in the US and Canada between March and April 2023. |
| 0:56.4 | So it feels like a long time away, but it really is not. |
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