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Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
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Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective.

Episodes
  • 2026 / 2 / 3
    57. Jessie McLachlan - Silenced Servant

    Lucy Worsley meets Jessie McLachlan, a woman accused of murdering one of her friends in Glasgow in 1862. There’s no obvious motive, but if she didn’t do it, who did?To investigate this infamous case, Lucy is...

  • 2026 / 1 / 27
    56. Elvira Barney - Accidental Killer

    This time, Lucy is exploring the story of Elvira Barney, a rich socialite in 1930s London, living a life of fast cars, cocktail parties and nightclubs. When her boyfriend Michael dies of a gunshot wound...

  • 2026 / 1 / 20
    55. Cloe - Forced Resistance

    Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of women from the 19th and early 20th centuries from a contemporary, feminist perspective.In this episode, we hear the story of Cloe, a black enslaved teenager who lives with...

  • 2026 / 1 / 13
    54. Martha Brown - Domestic Violence

    Lucy Worsley is back with a new series of Lady Killers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. This time Lucy heads to Dorset to explore the life of Martha Brown, a victim of domestic violence, ...

  • 2026 / 1 / 6
    53. Elizabeth Cook - Body Snatcher

    Lucy Worsley is back with a new series of Lady Killers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. In this episode, Lucy travels back to 1831 to Aldgate, then a poor part of East London, to investigate...

  • 2025 / 12 / 30
    52. Amelia Haslett - Lady Killer in My Family

    Lucy Worsley is back with a brand new series of Lady Killers. Lucy and her team of all female detectives re-visit the unthinkable crimes, committed by murderesses, more than a hundred years ago. In this...

  • 2025 / 12 / 23
    51. Murder by the Book - Live from the Hay Festival

    Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley - the stories of women who kill - is back for a brand new series. This first episode is recorded in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival in 2025, with special guest...

  • 2025 / 12 / 16
    Coming soon - Lady Killers Series 4

    Lucy Worsley returns to cover more cases of murder and intrigue in a brand new series of Lady Killers. Coming soon, first on BBC Sounds.

  • 2025 / 7 / 22
    50. Swindling Superpowers

    In the final episode of season two of Lady Swindlers, Lucy Worsley and her partner in crime, Professor Rosalind Crone, are joined by novelist and game designer Naomi Alderman, author of the award-winning...

  • 2025 / 7 / 15
    49. Elizabeth Manning - Hocusser

    Lucy Worsley is back with another episode of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the...

  • 2025 / 7 / 8
    48. Amelie Decuzpere - International Art Thief

    Lucy Worsley is back with another episode of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the...

  • 2025 / 7 / 1
    47. Fox Sisters - Spirit Mediums

    Lucy Worsley returns with her new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history, with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to meet women who...

  • 2025 / 6 / 24
    46. Minnie Pheby - Lady Burglar

    Lucy Worsley meets Minnie Pheby, a strong and agile young woman who defies all the gender stereotypes of Victorian society – not a homemaker, but a homebreaker. She’s the devil compared with the idealised...

  • 2025 / 6 / 17
    45. Bold Conversations

    Lucy Worsley returns with another episode of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Joined by historian Ros Crone and comedian, activist and author Deborah Frances-White, Lucy revisits...

  • 2025 / 6 / 10
    44. Celia Cooney - Bobbed Haired Bandit

    Lucy Worsley is back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the...

  • 2025 / 6 / 3
    43. Catharine Murphy - Money Maker

    Lucy Worsley is back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the...

  • 2025 / 5 / 27
    42. Annie Gordon Baillie - Serial Swindler

    Lucy Worsley continues her new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history, with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to tail scammers,...

  • 2025 / 5 / 20
    41. Mary Bateman - Yorkshire Witch

    Lucy Worsley is back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all female detectives travel back more than a hundred years to revisit the...

  • 2025 / 5 / 7
    Coming soon: Lady Swindlers Series 2

    Coming soon. Lucy Worsley and team return for a second series focusing on conwomen, thieves, hoaxers and swindlers.

  • 2024 / 12 / 2
    40. By Hook or by Crook

    Lucy Worsle digs into the lives of bold women who choose - by hook or by crook - to escape a life of poverty, misfortune and hardship. This episode highlights the fascinating tales of four invincible women....

  • 2024 / 11 / 25
    39. Ann Mary Provis - Art Hoaxer

    In this new series Lucy Worsley switches her attention from Lady Killers to Lady Swindlers - con women, thieves and hustlers. This time Lucy is investigating the case of Ann Mary Provis, an obscure young...

  • 2024 / 11 / 18
    38. Fanny Davies - Uncommon Thief

    In this new series Lucy Worsley switches her attention from Lady Killers to Lady Swindlers - con women, thieves and hustlers. This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all...

  • 2024 / 11 / 11
    37. Madame Rachel - Beauty Scammer

    In this new series Lucy Worsley switches her attention from Lady Killers to Lady Swindlers - con women, thieves and hustlers. This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of all...

  • 2024 / 11 / 4
    36. Sophie Lyons - Crime Doesn't Pay

    In this episode of Lady Swindlers, Lucy Worsley is exploring the life of Sophie Lyons, pickpocket, blackmailer and conwoman extraordinaire, known as the infamous Queen of the Underworld.Born in Germany in the...

  • 2024 / 10 / 28
    35. Women Who Dare

    Lucy Worsley, historian Professor Rosalind Crone and author and journalist Helen Lewis, explore the lives of four notorious Lady Swindlers. They’ll be discussing underworld boss Tilly Devine, fake heiress...

  • 2024 / 10 / 21
    34. Violet Charlesworth - Fake Heiress

    In this episode of Lady Swindlers, Lucy Worsley meets Violet Charlesworth, an heiress with a taste for the high life. From her family home in North Wales, Violet drives the length and breadth of the country...

  • 2024 / 10 / 14
    33. Tilly Devine - Underworld Queen

    Lucy Worsley investigates the career of one of Sydney’s most notorious gangsters, Tilly Devine. Draped in furs and encrusted in jewels, she’s the madam of one of the most lucrative brothel networks the city’s...

  • 2024 / 10 / 7
    32. Princess Caraboo - Fake Princess

    Lucy Worsley and her all-female team of detectives travel back in time to meet con artists, hoaxers and crooks from across the world. Women living extraordinary lives in a world made for men.In this episode...

  • 2024 / 9 / 30
    31. Alice Diamond - Queen of 40 Thieves

    In this brand new series Lucy Worsley switches her attention from Lady Killers to Lady Swindlers - conwomen, thieves and hustlers. This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Lucy and her team of...

  • 2024 / 9 / 23
    Introducing Lady Swindlers

    In this brand new series of Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley we switch our attention to the swindlers, conwomen and hustlers. This is where true crime meets history - with a twist. Join Lucy Worsley and a team...

  • 2024 / 9 / 23
    Bonus Episode: Lady Swindlers

    In this special episode of Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, recorded in front of a live audience, Lucy is joined by Professor Rosalind Crone, Lady Killers in-house historian and Salma el-Wardany, writer, poet...

  • 2024 / 3 / 13
    30. Difficult Women

    Lucy Worsley and Rosalind Crone are joined by Helen Lewis, author of ‘Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.’ They discuss what it means to be a difficult woman and why the airbrushing of ...

  • 2024 / 3 / 6
    29. Mary Ann Brough - Mother with Everything to Lose

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.In this episode, Lucy is joined by Alexandra Wilson, a barrister...

  • 2024 / 2 / 28
    28. Alice Mitchell - Forbidden Love

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.In this episode Lucy is joined by Cameron Esposito, stand-up comic,...

  • 2024 / 2 / 21
    27. Sarah Bird - Cruel Employer

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.Lucy Worsley travels to Buckland Brewer, Devon, to investigate the...

  • 2024 / 2 / 14
    26. Mary Surratt - Assassinating a President

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.In this episode Lucy is joined by Evy Poumpouras, former special agent...

  • 2024 / 2 / 7
    25. Women on Trial

    Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and barrister Nneka Akudolu KC take a look behind the scenes of Lady Killers. They shine a light on the detective work required to build the cases of these infamous...

  • 2024 / 1 / 31
    24. Frances Kidder - Wicked Stepmother

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Gwen Adshead, for many years a...

  • 2024 / 1 / 24
    23. Jane and Ann Boyd - Secret Baby

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.In this episode Lucy is joined by the Right Honourable Dame Siobhan...

  • 2024 / 1 / 17
    22. Marie Christensen - Murderous Matron

    It’s the 14th September 1896, just a short distance from Brisbane, on Australia’s east coast, and the sun is rising on Minjerribah Island, the ancestral land of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ‘Quandamooka...

  • 2024 / 1 / 10
    21. Maria Manning - 'Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey'

    Lucy Worsley travels back in time to revisit the unthinkable crimes of 19th century murderesses from the UK, Australia and North America.This episode sees Lucy traverse London, hot on the heels of Maria...

  • 2024 / 1 / 3
    Introducing Lady Killers Series 3

    Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley is a smash hit historical true-crime podcast. Join Lucy and a team of female detectives as they investigate the ordinary lives - and extraordinary crimes - of women in the past...

  • 2023 / 5 / 23
    20. Is the law gender blind?

    Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and lawyer and comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes discuss the wicked crimes of the last four Lady Killers in this series. They examine their treatment by the criminal...

  • 2023 / 5 / 19
    19. Jane Toppan

    Lucy Worsley investigates the historical crimes of women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Katherine Ramsland, a professor of forensic psychology at DeSales...

  • 2023 / 5 / 9
    18. Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins

    Lucy Worsley investigates the historical crimes of women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by award-winning crime writer Lynda La Plante CBE to investigate the case...

  • 2023 / 5 / 1
    17. Marguerite Fahmy

    Lucy Worsley takes a fresh look at an infamous shooting that took place at London’s Savoy Hotel, amid all the wealth and glamour of the Roaring ‘20s.On 10th July 1923, at the height of a violent thunderstorm,...

  • 2023 / 4 / 24
    16. Edith Thompson

    In this episode of Lady Killers, we travel back to the Roaring 20s as Lucy Worsley and guest detective Sasha Wass KC investigate how Edith Thompson, a woman who merely witnessed the violent killing of her...

  • 2023 / 4 / 17
    15. Women's Bodies. Women's Rights

    In this episode of Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika discuss the first four cases - brothel-keeper Mary McKinnon, chocolate-cream killer Christiana Edmonds,...

  • 2023 / 4 / 10
    14. Mary McKinnon

    In Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of 19th and early 20th century women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Dr Anastacia Ryan, Founder of SISU,...

  • 2023 / 4 / 3
    13. Elizabeth Taylor

    Lucy Worsley looks at the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective. In this episode, Lucy is joined by Deborah Frances-White, women’s rights campaigner, comedian and host of The...