Introducing Lady Killers Series 3

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC

Personal Journals, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley is a smash hit historical true-crime podcast.

Join Lucy and a team of female detectives as they investigate the ordinary lives - and extraordinary crimes - of women in the past from a contemporary feminist perspective.

In this series, Lucy revisits the unthinkable crimes of murderesses including Mary Surratt, accused of conspiring to assassinate a U.S. President and Maria Manning the so-called ‘Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey’.

Each episode focuses on a true story and sees Lucy take an in-depth look at the crime, how it was received at the time, and how it compares with what happens today.

Throughout the series, she is joined by an all-female detective team to dig deeper into the social issues and circumstances that helped to create these murderesses. This series our guest detectives include: barristers, a psychiatrist, an indigenous rights advocate, a former U. S. Secret Service agent, and a best selling Gothic novelist.

Along with our in house historian, Rosalind Crone, Lucy retraces the steps of women who kill from more than 100 years ago travelling across England and to Northern Ireland to take a peek at the lives of our Lady Killers. We also visit the U.S. and Australia.

A whole new series of Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley is coming soon.

Produced in partnership with the Open University.

A StoryHunter production for BBC Radio 4.

If you're in the UK, listen to the newest episodes of Lady Killers first on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/3M2pT0K

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0:00.0	My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?
0:05.1	Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?
0:10.6	We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.
0:13.4	It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,
0:17.6	but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.
0:21.5	It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.
0:25.0	Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick,
0:27.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:38.0	Lady Killers is back with me Lucy Worsley on BBC Radio 4.
0:48.0	Join me and a crack team of female detectives to reinvestigate more astonishing crimes from the past,
0:52.0	all committed by women.
0:55.0	We're traveling back in time and across the world to Australia, the US and the UK
1:00.5	to reinvestigate the crimes of female murderersers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
1:07.0	We premeditated to take his life.
1:11.0	To our home invited him one Thursday night.
1:15.0	He left me with no money and was going to take the children away from me.
1:19.0	I was not going to allow him to do so.
1:21.0	We're seeking to understand these women and their crimes from the perspective of 21st century
1:27.4	feminists. We have barristers, activists, a psychiatrist, an indigenous rights advocate a former US secret service agent and a best-selling gothic novelist
1:39.6	We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability.
1:43.7	We've got to have the courage to put all the women back,
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