Happy Friday Listeners! Mostly Unsung is here with two fascinating and twisting tales from History. Every week we tell two stories that the history books ignored, those lesser known people and forgotten fables that never came up in history lessons from eccentrics, to pirates, writers to criminals.

This week Annie is striding the streets of Post War London with an upstanding member of the bar. A judge who gained a reputation for harsh sentences and a theatrical style that some admired and others hated. Connected to such famous British crimes as The Kray Twins and the trial of Ruth Ellis, we can only thank the Gods we have an appeal system in the UK Courts!

Then Andrea introduces our earliest story ever! A young woman in the very epicentre of the intrigues of Medieval Europe. Wars are being fought, marriages secure alliances and betrayal is round every corner. Outraged at the betrayal of her own King, what's a woman to do? Cash in her French Estate and take to the High Seas, of course! A story of piracy, revenge and ensuring everyone who crossed you lives to regret it.

Andrea used these sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Clisson

https://www.qaronline.org/blog/2021-01-20/pirate-profile-jeanne-de-clisson

https://theroyalwomen.com/2021/12/20/jeanne-de-clisson/

Annie used these sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melford_Stevenson

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/5333417

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