S2 E9: The Blackout Ripper on the Run
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Greta Heywood is being strangled in a Piccadilly doorway when a passerby interrupts the Blackout Ripper, who disappears into the night. Greta survives the attack and the killer leaves vital clues as to his identity.
The police are now closing in on their man - but can they catch him before he can claim more victims?
Further reading:
Andrews, Maggie and Lomas, Janis. The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Laite, Julia. Common Prostitutes And Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London 1885 - 1960 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Lewis, Jane. ‘The problem of lone mother families in twentieth century Britain’, The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Vol. 20 No. 3 (1998), pp. 251-283
Reeves, Josephine. ‘The Deviant Mother and Child: The Development of Adoption as an Instrument of Social Control’, Journal of Law and Society, Winter, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 412—426)
Roberts, Elizabeth. A Woman’s Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women, 1890 – 1940 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)
Slater, Stefan. ‘Prostitutes and Popular History: Notes on the ‘Underworld’ 1918 - 1939’, Crime, History and Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2009), pp. 25 - 48
Sweet, Matthew. ‘The West End Front' (Faber 2012)
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| 1:19.8 | 18-year-old night porter, John Shine, is navigating one of the narrow and twisting backstreet |
| 1:26.2 | of Piccadilly. |
| 1:28.2 | It's pitch black. |
| 1:30.2 | Come, you've got to let me make love to you. |
| 1:34.3 | No, already told you I'm not going to let you. |
| 1:37.5 | Up ahead, in the darkness, there are unseen people. |
| 1:46.5 | I can hear a rustling noise from doorway, the beam of a flashlight darts for a moment, |
| 1:52.2 | but is then extinguished. |
| 1:54.5 | As the teenager draws closer, the light comes on again and illuminates the legs of a woman |
| 2:01.2 | lying on the ground. |
| 2:03.4 | The person holding the flashlight drops something and disappears around a corner. |
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