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Blood Ties Podcast

S2 Ep14: S02E14: The Last Woman Hanged in Britain

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Ellis was a model and nightclub hostess. After being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, she was put to death by hanging in 1955. Was she the victim of a cruel boyfriend? Or a calculated killer?

CREDITS: 
Producer: Poppy Damon 
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell

CONTACT: 
Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod
Instagram: bloodties_pod



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0:35.5

I'm Molly Wansall.

0:37.0

And I'm Jeffrey Wansel. And I'm Geoffrey Wonsall.

0:38.3

And for the last 16 years or thereabouts, we have been having lunch every Saturday and often our conversation turns to murder.

0:45.1

And that's what's prompted us to launch this true crime podcast called Blood Ties.

0:52.4

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father

0:58.0

Jeffrey Wansel. Hello everyone. Welcome back as Molly says. We're always thrilled that you take the

1:04.3

trouble to listen to these podcasts. It was an adventure for us both and here we are many months later still climbing Everest it's a

1:15.7

wonderful experience and we're very very grateful to all for listening yeah thanks everyone

1:20.3

anyway how are you how are you i'm pretty well i haven't had a terrible outbreak of hay fever, I'm pleased to say.

1:28.4

That's good.

1:29.1

Although I have taken a little bit of pyroton from time to time just to keep it at bay.

1:33.4

Yeah.

1:34.0

I'm blessed to say that it's been a relatively cheerful week, although I did have to go and see my mother who's very ill and very demented, which is very difficult.

1:46.4

But it's been a relatively cheerful week good i can't go over the weather i don't remember there ever being a summer this good

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