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Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ahead of her new BBC Four series The Ruth Ellis Files, Gillian Pachter explores the controversial case of a British woman who was hanged for murder in 1955 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.3

And there was a lot of skepticism, I think, because of the fact that these were beautiful women who were solvent,

1:01.4

who seemed very together. They didn't look like victims. I think the same is true of Ruth.

1:06.2

That was Gillian Pacta, talking about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain.

1:21.0

You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine.

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

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I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.

1:47.6

Tomorrow night, the 13th of March at 9pm, BBC 4 will be airing the first episode in a new series entitled The Ruth Ellis Files,

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