3pm on @bbcradio4, or on @BBCSounds!
Join me for the case of the fake philanthropist on today's #LadySwindlers
Join me for the case of the fake philanthropist on today's #LadySwindlers
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
3pm on @bbcradio4, or on @BBCSounds!
Join me for the case of the fake philanthropist on today's #LadySwindlers
Join me for the case of the fake philanthropist on today's #LadySwindlers
Big news: Professor Rosalind Crone and I are back to our criminal enterprises!
At least, we're on location recording the new series of ... drumroll ... #LadySwindlers !!
Coming soon to @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds 😃
At least, we're on location recording the new series of ... drumroll ... #LadySwindlers !!
Coming soon to @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds 😃
February 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Big news: Professor Rosalind Crone and I are back to our criminal enterprises!
At least, we're on location recording the new series of ... drumroll ... #LadySwindlers !!
Coming soon to @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds 😃
At least, we're on location recording the new series of ... drumroll ... #LadySwindlers !!
Coming soon to @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds 😃
Amazing testimony from senior police officer Jackie Malton about being a female detective sergeant in the 1970s in this week's #LadySwindlers.
Listen on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds 🙏
Listen on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds 🙏
June 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Amazing testimony from senior police officer Jackie Malton about being a female detective sergeant in the 1970s in this week's #LadySwindlers.
Listen on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds 🙏
Listen on @BBCRadio4 at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds 🙏
What did this week's #LadySwindlers highwaywoman Fanny Davies do next? Join me at The World's End to find out! Or listen on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 24, 2024 at 8:28 PM
What did this week's #LadySwindlers highwaywoman Fanny Davies do next? Join me at The World's End to find out! Or listen on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Have you had a good day? If so, I'm happy for you.
If not, then you might be in need of a restorative look at a Lego Suffragette.
(She's at the @bowstreetmuseum, which we visited for the new series of #LadySwindlers.)
If not, then you might be in need of a restorative look at a Lego Suffragette.
(She's at the @bowstreetmuseum, which we visited for the new series of #LadySwindlers.)
May 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Have you had a good day? If so, I'm happy for you.
If not, then you might be in need of a restorative look at a Lego Suffragette.
(She's at the @bowstreetmuseum, which we visited for the new series of #LadySwindlers.)
If not, then you might be in need of a restorative look at a Lego Suffragette.
(She's at the @bowstreetmuseum, which we visited for the new series of #LadySwindlers.)
It's a #LadyKillers #LadySwindlers milestone!
Please feel free to send cake.
And to listen to the latest episode here on BBC Sounds 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Please feel free to send cake.
And to listen to the latest episode here on BBC Sounds 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's a #LadyKillers #LadySwindlers milestone!
Please feel free to send cake.
And to listen to the latest episode here on BBC Sounds 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Please feel free to send cake.
And to listen to the latest episode here on BBC Sounds 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This time on #LadySwindlers, we meet a female international art thief. It's a great episode, with extensive discussion of the chicness of the French. With illustrator Malike Favre.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This time on #LadySwindlers, we meet a female international art thief. It's a great episode, with extensive discussion of the chicness of the French. With illustrator Malike Favre.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Who's on #LadySwindlers today, in the last episode of the present series? Only the magnificent and powerful novelist Naomi Alderman, talking about female superpowers!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Who's on #LadySwindlers today, in the last episode of the present series? Only the magnificent and powerful novelist Naomi Alderman, talking about female superpowers!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This week on #LadySwindlers, I go to Scotland Yard to learn about a fraudster with 40 aliases, and a penchant for pretending to be #Scottish.
It's the one about the fake philanthropist! Listen on @bbcsounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It's the one about the fake philanthropist! Listen on @bbcsounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
May 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This week on #LadySwindlers, I go to Scotland Yard to learn about a fraudster with 40 aliases, and a penchant for pretending to be #Scottish.
It's the one about the fake philanthropist! Listen on @bbcsounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It's the one about the fake philanthropist! Listen on @bbcsounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A wonderful sunny day in the north of England today, recording on location for #LadySwindlers. The new series will be coming soon to BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Friends, who recognises which castle we visited? #WhichCastle?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Friends, who recognises which castle we visited? #WhichCastle?
February 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A wonderful sunny day in the north of England today, recording on location for #LadySwindlers. The new series will be coming soon to BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Friends, who recognises which castle we visited? #WhichCastle?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Friends, who recognises which castle we visited? #WhichCastle?
This time on #LadySwindlers, visit the super-luxurious Bond Street salon of Madam Rachel, Victorian beauty scammer. With the Guardian's beauty columnist, Anita Bhagwandas. Listen now on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM
This time on #LadySwindlers, visit the super-luxurious Bond Street salon of Madam Rachel, Victorian beauty scammer. With the Guardian's beauty columnist, Anita Bhagwandas. Listen now on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This time on #LadySwindlers, @rosalindcrone and I are staking out a west London address on the trail of a notorious Victorian lady burglar. Search on BBC Sounds for 'Minnie Pheby' to hear the whole story!
June 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This time on #LadySwindlers, @rosalindcrone and I are staking out a west London address on the trail of a notorious Victorian lady burglar. Search on BBC Sounds for 'Minnie Pheby' to hear the whole story!
This time on #LadySwindlers, join me to attend a seance with the celebrated American mediums, the Fox sisters! new episode out now on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This time on #LadySwindlers, join me to attend a seance with the celebrated American mediums, the Fox sisters! new episode out now on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This time on #LadySwindlers, I asked Steph McGovern the riskiest thing she'd ever done to make money and got a surprising answer. Listen to the whole episode here!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This time on #LadySwindlers, I asked Steph McGovern the riskiest thing she'd ever done to make money and got a surprising answer. Listen to the whole episode here!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This time on #LadySwindlers! Join me in the cells of Bow Street Police Museum to meet a Victorian international art thief named Amelie Decuzpere, and hear the whole story on BBC Sounds!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This time on #LadySwindlers! Join me in the cells of Bow Street Police Museum to meet a Victorian international art thief named Amelie Decuzpere, and hear the whole story on BBC Sounds!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This time on #LadySwindlers, meet Fanny Davies, highwayperson (or so it was said.) She WAS definitely a thief, and would even steal your trousers. Her extraordinary story's on @bbcradio4.bsky.social today, on @bbcsounds.bsky.social or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 18, 2024 at 11:04 AM
This time on #LadySwindlers, meet Fanny Davies, highwayperson (or so it was said.) She WAS definitely a thief, and would even steal your trousers. Her extraordinary story's on @bbcradio4.bsky.social today, on @bbcsounds.bsky.social or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Get an eyeful of magnificent library! I went to the Royal Academy of Arts to find out about the young female artist who conned the eighteenth-century art establishment in this week's #LadySwindlers on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 28, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Get an eyeful of magnificent library! I went to the Royal Academy of Arts to find out about the young female artist who conned the eighteenth-century art establishment in this week's #LadySwindlers on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Did you know the Victorians also had the crime of spiking drinks? They called it HOCUSSING! More on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm today, or catch up on this week's #LadySwindlers on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Did you know the Victorians also had the crime of spiking drinks? They called it HOCUSSING! More on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm today, or catch up on this week's #LadySwindlers on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On #LadySwinders this time we're on the trail of a female armed robber in 1920s New York, the 'Bobbed Hair Bandit.' With CBS News Correspondent Erin Moriarty.
Listen on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds
#ladyswindlers #podcasts #history #lucyworsley
Listen on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds
#ladyswindlers #podcasts #history #lucyworsley
June 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On #LadySwinders this time we're on the trail of a female armed robber in 1920s New York, the 'Bobbed Hair Bandit.' With CBS News Correspondent Erin Moriarty.
Listen on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds
#ladyswindlers #podcasts #history #lucyworsley
Listen on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds
#ladyswindlers #podcasts #history #lucyworsley
Alas - it's the last episode of the present series of #LadySwindlers! Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, Professor Rosalind Crone and I discuss if crime ever pays, and what our own swindle might be. On BBC Radio 4 at 3.30 or on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Alas - it's the last episode of the present series of #LadySwindlers! Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, Professor Rosalind Crone and I discuss if crime ever pays, and what our own swindle might be. On BBC Radio 4 at 3.30 or on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This time on #LadySwindlers we meet a single mum who risks her life to make fake money on her kitchen table in 1780s London. @StephLunch discusses what women do to make money, & how women make better investors. And we visit the @TowerOfLondon!
Listen on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
Listen on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
May 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This time on #LadySwindlers we meet a single mum who risks her life to make fake money on her kitchen table in 1780s London. @StephLunch discusses what women do to make money, & how women make better investors. And we visit the @TowerOfLondon!
Listen on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
Listen on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds
In #LadySwindlers this week, Ros Crone, Deborah Frances White The Guilty Feminist and I share what our CRIMINAL MONIKERS would be. I can't understand why Ros and DFW were so unimpressed by mine. Listen on @BBCRadio4
at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
In #LadySwindlers this week, Ros Crone, Deborah Frances White The Guilty Feminist and I share what our CRIMINAL MONIKERS would be. I can't understand why Ros and DFW were so unimpressed by mine. Listen on @BBCRadio4
at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
at 3pm, or on @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
LadySwindlers series two lands on BBC Sounds on Tuesday!
I researched two cases for this series and will tell you about them as they go out…
I researched two cases for this series and will tell you about them as they go out…
May 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
LadySwindlers series two lands on BBC Sounds on Tuesday!
I researched two cases for this series and will tell you about them as they go out…
I researched two cases for this series and will tell you about them as they go out…
As we reach the end of the current series of #LadySwindlers it's time for a big thank you to Kirsty, to Riham, to all our wonderful producers, and to everyone behind the scenes at LadyKillers! We'll be back soon! In the meantime there are 40 episodes here on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
As we reach the end of the current series of #LadySwindlers it's time for a big thank you to Kirsty, to Riham, to all our wonderful producers, and to everyone behind the scenes at LadyKillers! We'll be back soon! In the meantime there are 40 episodes here on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
So, I researched Fanny Davies for the #LadySwindlers podcast earlier this year and my starting info was:
- She was a female highwayman
- She was executed
- The main source for her life was a death row mini-biography
(🧵)
- She was a female highwayman
- She was executed
- The main source for her life was a death row mini-biography
(🧵)
November 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM
So, I researched Fanny Davies for the #LadySwindlers podcast earlier this year and my starting info was:
- She was a female highwayman
- She was executed
- The main source for her life was a death row mini-biography
(🧵)
- She was a female highwayman
- She was executed
- The main source for her life was a death row mini-biography
(🧵)