Lady Killers / Swindlers

Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of women in the past from a contemporary, feminist perspective. 🎧 Podcast made by @storyhunteruk for @bbcsounds @bbcradio4

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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.

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Hello friends - @helenlewis, @rosalindcrone and all the #LadySwindlers gang are waiting for you to join us on @bbcradio4 in ten minutes!
https://t.co/YCSaNRfd57.

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lady Killers / Swindlers @LWLadyKillers]

❤️

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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❤️

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

This week on #LadySwindlers we travel from London to 1920s Australia! To meet a violent female gangster - with former policy chief @chrisnixon185. 3.30pm on @BBCRadio4 or on @bbcsounds! 
https://t.co/86i5lREDIG  #ladykillers #ladyswindlers #truecrime #podcasts

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

#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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Today's the day! We've swapped murder for mayhem and #LadyKillers for #LadySwindlers in our new series on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds - listen now!
https://t.co/pBZ0Z4Qw81

[Lady Killers / Swindlers @LWLadyKillers]

At the #LadyKillers live show @Lucy_Worsley and @rosalindcrone discuss how “crime pays for historians”. Listen to a special extended episode here: https://t.co/cjQhFsR1Xj or wherever you get your podcasts #truecrimepodcasts

[Good Housekeeping UK @GHmagazine]

Lucy Worsley's new series explores the con-women of history https://t.co/niy9I0o6dO

[BBC Scotland @BBCScotland]

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

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

What happened in our BBC Radio Theatre #LadyKillers live show that's on @BBCRadio4 this afternoon? Get a sneak peek here!

[rosalindcrone @rosalindcrone]

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...)

[Julia Hayball @juliahayball]

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.

[Lady Killers / Swindlers @LWLadyKillers]

@BBCRadio4 @Lucy_Worsley @rosalindcrone @writtenbysalma @BBCSounds Listen now https://t.co/rNMiDKJve8

[BBC Radio 4 @BBCRadio4]

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