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Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

26. Mary Surratt - Assassinating a President

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley uncovers the story of Mary Surratt, a pious widow and mother, who faced a death sentence for conspiring to murder President Abraham Lincoln. Show more

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28. Alice Mitchell - Forbidden Love

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley uncovers the story of Alice Mitchell who kills her former girlfriend in Memphis, Tennessee in 1892 after a stormy and illicit relationship. Show more

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21. Maria Manning - 'Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey'

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley is hot on the heels of Maria Manning, the so-called Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey, who killed her lover and shocked the nation in 1849. Show more

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

23. Jane and Ann Boyd - Secret Baby

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley uncovers a case of infanticide in the north of Ireland in the 1860s with the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Dame Siobhan Keegan. Show more

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16. Edith Thompson - Modern Woman on Trial

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Guest Detective Sasha Wass KC joins Lucy Worsley to investigate the suburban stabbing that put New Woman Edith Thompson, on trial for her husband’s murder. Show more

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

18. Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley investigates how two sisters poisoned acquaintances for the life insurance money. With author Lynda La Plante CBE. Show more

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22. Marie Christensen - Murderous Matron

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Human Rights activist Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts joins Lucy Worsley to investigate the 1896 murder of a First Nations child and the ongoing impact of Australia’s Stolen Generations. Show more

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

17. Marguerite Fahmy - Self-confessed Killer

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley delves into the remarkable story of Marguerite Fahmy, a Frenchwoman whose fairytale romance comes to a grisly end when she shoots her husband at the Savoy Hotel. Show more

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19. Jane Toppan - Serial Killer Nurse

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley and forensic psychologist Dr Katherine Ramsland investigate a nurse who’s killing her patients and ask how she got away with murder for so long. Show more

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

20. Is the law gender blind?

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley and Professor Rosalind Crone discuss women and the law with immigration lawyer and comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes. Show more

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

12. Margaret Garner - Icon of Tragedy & Resistance

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley explores the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved mother in 1850s America, who commits a murder that transforms her into an icon of tragedy and resistance. Show more

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13. Elizabeth Taylor - Serial Abortionist

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley explores the story of Elizabeth Taylor, a backstreet abortionist in late 19th-century Melbourne, Australia, who spent decades playing cat and mouse with the law. Show more

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24. Frances Kidder - Wicked Stepmother

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lucy Worsley uncovers the case of a 25-year-old woman accused of drowning her stepdaughter in a remote part of Romney Marsh in Kent in the 1860s. Show more