The podcast where true crime meets history – with a twist, Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley, is back for a brand-new series.
Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back in time to meet women who didn’t play by the rules. Women trying to make it in a world made for men. Women who stepped outside their ordinary lives to do extraordinary things. What do their crimes and the times they lived in teach us about women’s lives today?
This season features world-famous spirit mediums, a woman who became known as the ‘Yorkshire Witch’, an international art thief and even a Victorian woman spiking men’s drinks, as the podcast travels back in time and across continents, from England and Scotland to the US.
Lucy Worsley says: “The ethos of our show is that it’s about women and their voices: both long-dead women, but also women alive in the world today.
“We always invite a modern-day expert female expert to comment on each historical case. That person might be a crime novelist, like Denise Mina, or a top female police officer with experience of burglary, like Jackie Malton, or someone who’s prosecuted similar crimes to the drink-spiking we looked at, like Nneka Akodulu KC.
“On top of that, our whole editorial team and of course our in-house historian Professor Rosalind Crone are female as well. It’s quite special and joyful (and it feels more unusual than it should be!) to work so closely with an all-female team!”
Season two of Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley begins on BBC Sounds and Radio 4 today, Tuesday 13 May, with new episodes released weekly.
