Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five won last year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for its brilliantly researched and pioneering portrayal of the five victims of Jack the Ripper – focusing not on the manner of their death, countless books have done, but on their lives. Join her and Alex to find out why and how she began such a vital historical project.

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