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Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

Introducing Lady Killers Series 2

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC

Personal Journals, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7908 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Lucy and a crack team of female detectives uncover new cases in Lady Killers series 2. Listen to all episodes first on BBC Sounds from Monday 20th March 2023.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.0

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.0

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, moments and movements,

0:14.7

stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position at the heart of British music means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.6

We were, are and always will be right there at the center of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and

0:34.4

infamous moments in music check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:38.6

This is Lady Killers from BBC Radio 4 with me Lucy Worsley, where true crime meets history with a twist.

0:50.0

We're back and once again we're taking a look a feminist look actually at the wild

0:57.6

and unthinkable crimes committed by murderers in the past.

1:02.4

This season we start in 1823 and we push forward to

1:06.2

1923 that's a hundred years of women who kill. You'll hear our lady killers voices voices. You'll learn about their lives, their stories, and we'll ask,

1:18.0

a thing so very different today. I would much rather kill them at once and thus in their sufferings, then have

1:26.9

them taken back to slavery. I held her in my arms and watched with delight as she gasped her life out.

1:35.0

What have I done? I have been married six months and it has been tortured.

1:42.0

We'll hear about has been tortured.

1:46.0

We'll hear about Margaret Garner, a desperate enslaved woman who murdered her own daughter.

1:50.0

Jane Toppen, a nurse from New England who killed her patients.

1:55.0

And Marguerite Farmy, a glamorous young socialite, trapped in an abusive marriage.

2:02.0

We also have a female stalker who wreaks havoc

2:05.2

on a whole community and a serial abortionist.

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