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S2 E1: Murders in a City Without Light

S2 E1: Murders in a City Without Light

FromBad Women: The Blackout Ripper


S2 E1: Murders in a City Without Light

FromBad Women: The Blackout Ripper

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

London's West End - once a glittering Mecca of nightlife - is pitch black. The lights are off to hide the city from waves of Nazi bombers - but in the darkness a merciless killer is hunting down the women of this district. 
Join hosts Hallie Rubenhold and Alice Fiennes as they walk those bomb-damaged streets to tell the stories of the women targeted by this "Blackout Ripper" over the course of just one week in 1942. 
You'll glimpse inside the theaters, jazz joints and dive bars of Piccadilly and Soho; witness deadly air raids; and criss cross the blacked out streets where a serial killer lurks. You'll learn too of the hardships that blighted the lives of many women in wartime, and the extent of the violence they faced at the hands of men from their own side in the conflict. 
Sources: 
Bone, James. London Echoing (London: Jonathan Cape, 1948)
Caddick-Adams, Peter. Sand and Steel: A New History of D-Day (London: Penguin Random House, 2019).
Cederwell, William. Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature (New York: Routledge, 2018). 
Farson, N. Bomber’s Moon (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1941).
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Released:
Oct 11, 2022
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Titles in the series (18)

It’s a cold case like no other. In the fall of 1888, five women were brutally murdered in the slums of London. The attacks were so violent that the killer earned a nickname - Jack the Ripper. But everything you think you know about Jack and those murdered women is wrong. Historian Hallie Rubenhold uncovers new facts about the five victims - revealing the appalling treatment they faced as women in the 1880s, and completely overturning the accepted Ripper story.