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Book of the Week: FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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The story of Violet Gibson, who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini.

4 Extra Debut. The troubles of Violet Gibson, daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini. Read by Sinead Cusack.

Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of the troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926. 

On Wednesday 7th April 1926, in front of a crowd of cheering Fascist supporters, Benito Mussolini is shot at close quarters. The bullet nicks the bridge of his nose and the bleeding is profuse. Who shot him and why did they do it?

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Sinead Cusack reads Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson

Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daugher of an Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926

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