Well, hello there, delicious friends, and welcome to Who'd Ed Watnow, the History Podcast

that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and

Reader of Books. You might be perceptive enough to check my tone and be like,

she sounds weird. I am, as the French call it, Le Sick. And because I'm so under the weather,

I'm just not fit for a chord in a full episode. And I have great plans. And this story I think

deserves all of my attention and everything I can give

and it would be disrespectful to not share it properly. So in the meantime, I am re-releasing from the

vault the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper episodes because people have been annoying me again lately,

and another those theories has come up which conveniently points at a Jewish immigrant.

I wonder why suddenly, in today's current political climate that that's happening.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy, which is a terrible way to phrase it. The first

canonical victim. The story of Polly Nichols. Well, Marianne Nichols and Polly to her friends,

but Polly was her chosen name and as such, we're going to call her that because she deserves it,

unlike the history she's been given. And bear in mind that this is a few years old, the audio

might not be the same that you're used to, but I hope you can enjoy it anyway. Thank you,

and I will see you in the next episode. The five victims, the five canonical victims of Jack there,

are the five that have been definitely absolutely attributed to him,

although I have opinions about one of them, but we'll discuss that later.

They're only important, the only matter, the only reason anybody wants to hear anything about them

is because they were victims of a serial killer, a serial killer that, you know, has never been unmasked.

And people care more about their death than they cared about their lives.

And that's why I'm here, because I feel that it's important to understand who these women

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