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Criminal

Episode 229: A Glamour and a Mystery

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths. It was the first photograph she’d ever taken — and it became the source of a mystery that lasted for most of the 20th century. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, and members-only merch. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Phoebe.

0:03.4

We're planning a virtual live event on August 24th.

0:06.9

It's going to include criminal trivia, you can play along and win prizes, and I'll be

0:12.0

performing some magic tricks.

0:14.7

To join us, become a criminal plus premium member.

0:18.4

You'll also get to listen to all of our episodes without any ads.

0:21.8

And bonus episodes where criminal co-creator Lauren Spor and I take you behind the scenes

0:27.0

and talk about how we find our stories.

0:29.9

And for criminal plus, at thisiscriminal.com slash plus.

0:34.6

And thanks very much for your support.

0:36.8

You have all these special materials here to keep things safe.

0:47.2

Yeah.

0:48.2

Yeah, you did a quick risk assessment.

0:53.2

In March, we visited the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds in England.

0:59.2

They have the very first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays and medieval manuscripts

1:04.4

from the 12th century.

1:06.7

But we were there to see something else.

1:10.2

We were told it was going to be very cold and we wouldn't be able to wear our coats inside.

1:15.5

You have the sore, sore delicate and precious.

1:18.6

The conservation officer was setting up the room so we could see some negatives of old

1:22.9

photographs.

1:25.2

And I'm just merely putting these down to stop, to stop this light sheet moving around

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