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Hello revisionist history fans Malcolm Gladwell here. I want to tell you about a new podcast

from Pushkin Industries called Bad Women, Ripper Retold. You know the story. In 1888, five female

prostitutes were brutally murdered in a London slum. Attacks so violent, the killer earned

a nickname, Jack the Ripper. For centuries, we've assumed these women were indeed bad women.

But what if everything we know about them is wrong. Historian Halley Rubenhold has uncovered

the true stories of the Ripper's victims. Pauli Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary Jane

all struggled against the misogyny that thrived in Victorian England until they found themselves

in the path of one of the most vicious killers in history.

Listeners are loving the show. I've called it brilliant, a badly missing layer to the story,

addicting, fascinating, informative and entertaining and a historical treat. Bad women is critically

acclaimed. It's been deemed one of the best true crime podcasts by the Guardian, Vulture and

Esquire. Vulture said Halley takes aim at her critics in her first episode and continues

throughout to satisfyingly skewer Ripperologists, especially one former officer who seems to think

the murder victims at the heart of the case must have done something to warrant their gutting

one way or another.

If you haven't listened to bad women yet, I don't know what you're waiting for. I'm going

to share a preview now that will get you totally hooked. You can binge the entire season on all

your holiday travels and stacations. Just search for bad women wherever you get your podcasts.

It's a warm September evening. The sky has darkened and a moon has risen over the flat,

completely river. Hundreds of day trippers and pleasure seekers are aboard the Princess Alice

as she steams through London. Music, singing and the excited chouts of children give the so-called

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