BBC Radio Podcasts from Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
40. By Hook or by Crook
Lucy Worsley discusses Lady Swindlers who take matters into their own hands.
39. Ann Mary Provis - Art Hoaxer
Lucy Worsley meets Ann Mary Provis, an audacious art hoaxer in Georgian London.
38. Fanny Davies - Uncommon Thief
Lucy Worsley meets Fanny Davies, a common thief who leads a most uncommon life.
37. Madame Rachel - Beauty Scammer
Lucy Worsley meets Madame Rachel, Victorian London’s most notorious beauty scammer.
36. Sophie Lyons - Crime Doesn't Pay
Lucy Worsley meets Sophie Lyons, America’s Queen of the Underworld in the late 1800s.
35. Women Who Dare
Lucy Worsley, Helen Lewis and historian Rosalind Crone discuss audacious Lady Swindlers.
34. Violet Charlesworth - Fake Heiress
Lucy Worsley and team track down Violet Charlesworth, Edwardian heiress turned fugitive.
33. Tilly Devine - Underworld Queen
Lucy Worsley meets Tilly Devine, queen of Sydney’s 1920s criminal underworld.
32. Princess Caraboo - Fake Princess
An Indonesian princess holding court in Regency England? Lucy Worsley is on the case.
31. Alice Diamond - Queen of 40 Thieves
Lucy Worsley meets Alice Diamond, London’s queen of shoplifting in the 1920s.
Introducing Lady Swindlers
Lucy Worsley introduces a brand new series of Lady Killers.
Bonus Episode: Lady Swindlers
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley is live from the Radio Theatre.
30. Difficult Women
Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and Helen Lewis discuss the cases.
29. Mary Ann Brough - Mother with Everything to Lose
Lucy Worsley investigates a mother who does the unthinkable to her children.
28. Alice Mitchell - Forbidden Love
Lucy Worsley uncovers the story of a teenage love gone horribly wrong.
27. Sarah Bird - Cruel Employer
Lucy Worsley investigates the death of a teenage girl on a remote Devon farm.
26. Mary Surratt - Assassinating a President
Lucy Worsley tells the story of a woman accused of plotting to murder a president.
25. Women on Trial
Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and Nneka Akudolu discuss the cases so far.
24. Frances Kidder - Wicked Stepmother
Lucy Worsley uncovers the case of a stepmother accused of drowning her stepdaughter.
23. Jane and Ann Boyd - Secret Baby
Lucy Worsley uncovers a case of infanticide in the north of Ireland in the 1860s.
22. Marie Christensen - Murderous Matron
Lucy Worsley investigates a brutal crime committed in Australia by a Murderous Matron.
21. Maria Manning - 'Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey'
Lucy Worsley meets the woman at the centre of a murderous Victorian love triangle.
Introducing Lady Killers Series 3
Introducing Season 3 of the smash hit series, Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley.
20. Is the law gender blind?
Lucy Worsley, Professor Ros Crone and Sikisa Bostwick Barnes discuss the cases.
19. Jane Toppan - Serial Killer Nurse
Lucy Worsley investigates a nurse with a penchant for poisoning.
18. Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins
Lucy Worsley investigates two sisters with a taste for arsenic.
17. Marguerite Fahmy - Self-confessed Killer
Lucy Worsley investigates a sensational shooting at London’s Savoy Hotel in 1923.
16. Edith Thompson - Modern Woman on Trial
Lucy Worsley investigates the infamous 1922 Ilford Murder.
15. Women's Bodies. Women's Rights
Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and Ayesha Hazarika discuss the cases so far.
14. Mary McKinnon - Prejudice Against Sex Workers
Lucy Worsley looks at the case of a tavern owner accused of murdering a customer.
13. Elizabeth Taylor - Serial Abortionist
Lucy Worsley looks into a backstreet abortionist in 19th-century Melbourne.
12. Margaret Garner - Icon of Tragedy & Resistance
Lucy Worsley explores the drastic choice made by an enslaved mother in 1850s America.
11. Christiana Edmunds - Chocolate Cream Killer
Lucy Worsley uncovers a respectable Victorian spinster who becomes a mass poisoner.
Introducing Lady Killers Series 2
Lucy and a crack team of female detectives uncover new cases in Lady Killers Series 2.
Bonus episode: Lucy Worsley talks to Greg Jenner
Lucy and Greg chat about the process of making You're Dead To Me.
10. Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know
Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone look back and discuss the final four murderesses.
9. Hannah Mary Tabbs
Lucy Worsley investigates the case of Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso.
8. Esther Lack
Lucy Worsley investigates a desperate mother driven to commit a horrendous triple murder.
7. Mary Ann Cotton
Lucy Worsley investigates Britain’s first female serial killer.
6. Amelia Dyer
Lucy Worsley investigates a baby farmer accused of killing hundreds of infants.
5. Getting Away With It
Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone look back and discuss the first four murderesses.
4. Grace Marks
Lucy Worsley asks if a 16-year-old Irish immigrant was forced into a murder plot.
3. Lizzie Borden
How a young lady was immortalised as an axe murderer in 19th-century New England.
2. Madeleine Smith
Lucy Worsley investigates a secret love affair turned toxic.
1. Florence Bravo
Lucy Worsley investigates a Victorian woman at the centre of a sensational poisoning.
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Investigate the crimes of Victorian women, from a contemporary, feminist perspective.