Jack the Ripper Retold

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 1888 a series of brutal killings took place in Whitechapel, London which might be the most famous unsolved murders of all time. The case and the killer attracted a worldwide media frenzy like never before and the perpetrator nicknamed Jack the Ripper has gone down in infamy. But an obsession to identify the killer both then and now has meant that the victims of these terrible crimes have been largely forgotten. Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly all met their end at the hands of this monstrous killer and their lives deserve to be remembered.

Joining Dan to try and help put the victims back at the centre of this case is Hallie Rubenhold host of the new podcast Bad Women: Ripper Retold. Hallie has worked to explore in-depth the lives of the Ripper's victims and the issues that contributed to their deaths, such as homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, and prostitution.

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0:00.0	Hi, really welcome to Dan Snow's History.
0:03.1	There's an old expression that part of you dies when one of your friends succeeds or something
0:07.8	like that.
0:08.8	Well, I must say, I'm blessed.
0:10.1	That's not true for me.
0:11.1	I love it when the gang does well and no one deserves more success than how he ruined
0:16.4	the old.
0:17.4	She has been writing wonderful history books for years.
0:19.4	We share a love of the 18th century and success has come to her.
0:23.7	Monumental bestselling, global renowned success has come to her following her publication
0:29.4	of her book about the victims of Jack the Ripper, the five.
0:33.6	The women who put over looks in our obsession with a mythologized Victorian serial killer
0:38.4	who may not even existed or have been one person.
0:40.6	Anyway, Halle has put those women squarely back in the centre of the story and in doing
0:44.4	so she's turned an entire industry on its head.
0:47.2	She just released a podcast series, Bad Women, The Ripper Retold.
0:51.7	It's available wherever you get your podcast nail and I got to talk to her.
0:54.6	I caught up with that.
0:55.6	I asked about Jack the Ripper, I asked about the women who he killed in 1888, within spitting
1:00.6	distance of the history hit office, which is situated in what is now the hippest and most
1:05.6	exciting part of London.
1:07.1	Before you look at this into Halle's podcast, please listen to it here.
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