Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of women in the past from a contemporary, feminist perspective. 🎧 Podcast made by @storyhunteruk for @bbcsounds @bbcradio4
This time on #LadySwindlers it's Victorian BEAUTY SCAMMER Madame Rachel of Bond Street. Yes, even 200 years ago, people were making money out of female insecurities about appearance.
With the @guardian's super @ItsMeAnitaB ❤️
On @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds
https://t.co/9BoQJ92t8G
This time on #LadySwindlers, I’m joined by former US Secret Service Agent @EvyPoumpouras to meet Sophie Lyons, rags-to-riches conwoman in America's 'Gilded Age'. Listen on @bbcsounds or wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/EyRe8gaVoC
This week on #LadySwindlers we pause to take stock! The brilliant @helenlewis joins Ros & I to imagine their lives if our Swindlers had lived today?
https://t.co/YCSaNRfd57.
North Wales, 1909. 'Heiress' Violet Charlesworth disappears after her car crashes off a cliff. Is she really dead? Crime author Denise Mina & historians @rosalindcrone & @ELINtomos unravel the mystery on #LadySwindlers! 3.30pm, @BBCRadio4 or @bbcsounds:
https://t.co/0YBqFCIVdT
NEWS!
I'm both sad & excited to say that at the end of 2024, I'll be leaving my job as Chief Curator at @HRP_palaces! I've had the best colleagues in history for 21 years, but I want to spend more time with my friends at @LWLadyKillers and our growing #LadyKillers community❤️
#LadySwindler of the week: ALICE DIAMOND, leader of an all-girl shoplifting gang in the early twentieth century.
Join me at the scene of the crime in London's Oxford Street!
https://t.co/Qe0YtCxusu
This week on #LadySwindlers we have a fake princess who was captured by pirates! Listen to the extraordinary story of Bristol's Princess Caraboo on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds (or wherever you get your podcasts) 👇
https://t.co/znJMzfT6SU
We talk about how the creation of the #LadySwindlers podcast was motivated by annoyance - specifically with centuries of patriarchy. Thanks to @BBCRadio4 Woman's Hour for having me, and for taking the video too. Listen to the whole programme here:
https://t.co/BSiaTxLhKO
Turn the radio on! At 3.30 on @BBCRadio4, this week's #LadySwinders are an extraordinary all-girl gang of early twentieth-century shoplifters! Or if you miss it, listen here: https://t.co/5BEv7skAIL
Violet Charlesworth was an heiress with a taste for the high life and a love of Scotland, but was there more to her than meets the eye?
Listen to Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley on @BBCSounds#LucyWorsley#LadySwindlers
https://t.co/Sr998oxLfy
Thanks to @BBCRadioScot who featured this story on their morning show. Shout out to @SophieMHistory who helped with the research for this ep. Now available to listen @BBCSounds
**One correction needed for the article - the crash happened near Penmaenmawr (not Anglesey...)
A huge thanks to @Lucy_Worsley@rosalindcrone @LitRedCorvette @writtenbysalma Jonathan Keeble and the whole production team for their amazing efforts on our Live Lady Killers episode. Listen to it here https://t.co/mBMxzaoaTS. Or on @bbcradio4 at 3.30pm.
You can now listen to Lady Killers recorded live's highlights. Join @Lucy_Worsley , Professor @rosalindcrone , and broadcaster @writtenbysalma as they discuss memorable murderesses and more.
Listen live on @bbcradio4 today at 3.30 pm or an extended episode now on @bbcsounds