Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley episodes:

• 03.13.2024

  30. Difficult Women

  Lucy Worsley and Rosalind Crone are joined by Helen Lewis, author of ‘Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.’ They discuss what it means to be a difficult woman and why the airbrushing of feminist history can...

  
• 03.06.2024

  29. Mary Ann Brough - Mother with Everything to Lose

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Alexandra Wilson, a barrister specialising in criminal and family law and...

  
• 02.28.2024

  28. Alice Mitchell - Forbidden Love

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. In this episode Lucy is joined by Cameron Esposito, stand-up comic, actor, writer and host of the hit...

  
• 02.21.2024

  27. Sarah Bird - Cruel Employer

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. Lucy Worsley travels to Buckland Brewer, Devon, to investigate the death of a young servant girl on a...

  
• 02.14.2024

  26. Mary Surratt - Assassinating a President

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. In this episode Lucy is joined by Evy Poumpouras, former special agent with the Secret Service, where she...

  
• 02.07.2024

  25. Women on Trial

  Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and barrister Nneka Akudolu KC take a look behind the scenes of Lady Killers. They shine a light on the detective work required to build the cases of these infamous murderesses, how evidence is...

  
• 01.31.2024

  24. Frances Kidder - Wicked Stepmother

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Gwen Adshead, for many years a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist...

  
• 01.24.2024

  23. Jane and Ann Boyd - Secret Baby

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. In this episode Lucy is joined by the Right Honourable Dame Siobhan Keegan, the Lady Chief Justice of...

  
• 01.17.2024

  22. Marie Christensen - Murderous Matron

  It’s the 14th September 1896, just a short distance from Brisbane, on Australia’s east coast, and the sun is rising on Minjerribah Island, the ancestral land of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ‘Quandamooka People’. It’s an area rich in Aboriginal...

  
• 01.10.2024

  21. Maria Manning - 'Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey'

  Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America. This episode sees Lucy traverse London, hot on the heels of Maria Manning, the so-called Lady Macbeth of...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Introducing Lady Killers Series 3

  Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley is a smash hit historical true-crime podcast. Join Lucy and a team of female detectives as they investigate the ordinary lives - and extraordinary crimes - of women in the past from a contemporary...

  
• 05.23.2023

  20. Is the law gender blind?

  Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and lawyer and comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes discuss the wicked crimes of the last four Lady Killers in this series. They examine their treatment by the criminal justice system and ask whether there are parallels with...

  
• 05.19.2023

  19. Jane Toppan - Serial Killer Nurse

  Lucy Worsley investigates the historical crimes of women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Katherine Ramsland, a professor of forensic psychology at DeSales University, to visit Massachusetts in New England, USA and...

  
• 05.09.2023

  18. Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins

  Lucy Worsley investigates the historical crimes of women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by award-winning crime writer Lynda La Plante CBE to investigate the case of two sisters, Catherine Flanagan and Margaret Higgins....

  
• 05.01.2023

  17. Marguerite Fahmy - Self-confessed Killer

  Lucy Worsley takes a fresh look at an infamous shooting that took place at London’s Savoy Hotel, amid all the wealth and glamour of the Roaring ‘20s. On 10th July 1923, at the height of a violent thunderstorm, Marguerite Fahmy...

  
• 04.24.2023

  16. Edith Thompson - Modern Woman on Trial

  In this episode of Lady Killers, we travel back to the Roaring 20s as Lucy Worsley and guest detective Sasha Wass KC investigate how Edith Thompson, a woman who merely witnessed the violent killing of her husband, found herself...

  
• 04.17.2023

  15. Women's Bodies. Women's Rights

  In this episode of Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika discuss the first four cases - brothel-keeper Mary McKinnon, chocolate-cream killer Christiana Edmonds, enslaved woman Margaret Garner and abortionist Elizabeth Taylor. They examine legal prejudice,...

  
• 04.10.2023

  14. Mary McKinnon - Prejudice Against Sex Workers

  In Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of 19th and early 20th century women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Anastacia Ryan, Founder of SISU, a Glasgow-based charity for women at...

  
• 04.03.2023

  13. Elizabeth Taylor - Serial Abortionist

  Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Deborah Frances-White, women’s rights campaigner, comedian and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, to explore the case of...

  
• 03.27.2023

  12. Margaret Garner - Icon of Tragedy & Resistance

  Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of women from the 19th and early 20th centuries from a contemporary, feminist perspective. Lucy explores the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved mother in 1850s America, who commits a murder that...

  
• 03.20.2023

  11. Christiana Edmunds - Chocolate Cream Killer

  Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In the first case in her new series, Lucy explores the story of Christiana Edmunds, a respectable spinster who embarks on a mass poisoning spree...

  
• 03.13.2023

  Introducing Lady Killers Series 2

  Lucy and a crack team of female detectives uncover new cases in Lady Killers series 2. Listen to all episodes first on BBC Sounds from Monday 20th March 2023.

  
• 07.29.2022

  Bonus episode: Lucy Worsley talks to Greg Jenner

  Lucy talks to fellow historian Greg Jenner about "larking about" on the TV show Horrible Histories, how to triumph at a Tudor history quiz (visit a museum on the subject first!), working with your idols (Stephen Fry) and the process...

  
• 07.25.2022

  10. Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know

  In this final episode of Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone look back and discuss the last four cases and the issues and themes they share. Together they re-examine two of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, Amelia Dyer...

  
• 07.25.2022

  9. Hannah Mary Tabbs

  Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. This time, Lucy explores the case of Hannah Mary Tabbs, who was very good at being very bad. An African-American woman living in Philadelphia...

  
• 07.25.2022

  8. Esther Lack

  Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of 19th century women in the UK, North America and beyond from a contemporary, feminist perspective. Here, Lucy tells the story of the murderess Esther Lack and asks whether she was a cold-blooded child...

  
• 07.25.2022

  7. Mary Ann Cotton

  Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. This time, Lucy visits County Durham in North East England, to reinvestigate the woman known as Britain’s first female serial killer. Mary Ann Cotton was accused...

  
• 07.25.2022

  6. Amelia Dyer

  Lucy Worsley investigates the ordinary lives and extraordinary crimes of Victorian women accompanied by a team of female detectives. This time, Lucy is on the case of a baby farmer who’s thought to have killed between 200 and...

  
• 07.25.2022

  5. Getting Away With It

  In this episode of Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone look back and discuss the first four cases and the issues and themes they share. Together they look again at the alleged poisoners Florence Bravo and Madeleine Smith,...

  
• 07.25.2022

  4. Grace Marks

  Lucy Worsley investigates the ordinary lives and extraordinary crimes of Victorian women. This story is about a young servant, Grace Marks, accused of two brutal murders that generated enormous attention in the new world of Upper Canada...

  
• 07.25.2022

  3. Lizzie Borden

  On a hot August day in 1892, a wealthy Massachusetts couple, Andrew and Abby Borden, were hacked to death during broad daylight in their home in the small industrial city of Fall River. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter from his...

  
• 07.25.2022

  2. Madeleine Smith

  Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy explores the case of a young lady called Madeleine Smith. Part of high society in Glasgow in the 1850s, she was...

  
• 04.25.2022

  1. Florence Bravo

  Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In the first case in the series, Lucy explores the story of Florence Bravo, the woman at the heart of one of the most sensational...

  
• 04.20.2022

  Welcome to Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

  Join Lucy Worsley and a team of female detectives as they investigate the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. If you like what you hear, the whole series will be available to listen to from the 25th...