Introducing Lady Swindlers

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC

Personal Journals, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this brand new series of Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley we switch our attention to the swindlers, conwomen and hustlers.

This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Join Lucy Worsley and a team of all female detectives as they travel back in time to revisit the audacious - and surprising - crimes of women who were trying to make it in a world made for men.

Women who stepped outside their ordinary lives to do extraordinary things. What do their crimes and the times they lived in teach us about womens’ lives today? We meet Queens of the Underworld, hoaxers, thieves, scammers and even a fake heiress as we travel back in time and from England, Wales, Scotland, the US and Australia.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	I'm Lucy Worsley here, dropping in to tell you that we're coming back with more tales of women from the past.
0:15.0	Now when you hear this music,
0:17.0	you'll no doubt be thinking that we're about to bring you more of our Lady
0:27.2	Killers all about murderresses and women who kill but hang on on a minute. This series, we're making a change.
0:35.2	We're going to be on the trail of Lady Swindlers. Yes, that's right, Swindlers,
0:41.6	hoaxes, Scammers and, and we've even got a fake princess.
0:47.0	We'll be traveling back in time, and around the world from England, Wales and Scotland to the US and Australia.
0:58.0	This time there will be no dead bodies, but make no mistake, our Lady Swindlers are just as fascinating.
1:06.0	I am the notorious Tilly Divine.
1:10.0	They are show-offs.
1:12.0	Everybody was acquainted with my whole history.
1:15.0	She does sound fabulous though, don't she?
1:18.0	Huge outfits, massive dogs, lots of cars.
1:22.0	I have more diamonds than the Queen of England.
1:25.0	She likes the attention. She likes being seen. She likes wearing beautiful clothes.
1:29.0	This is someone who's really embracing life.
1:32.0	And their lives sound like crime capers. The accidents on a
1:36.8	Welsh cliff search for missing lady. Tilly herself was known to use a razor. She was arrested for malicious
1:45.8	wounding where she attacked a man. She walked right after him, pulled the razor out
1:51.4	and slashed him.
1:53.0	We'll be in hot pursuit of our lady swindlers.
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