Lucy Worsley

This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. This is survival.

This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. This is survival.

I'm here shining up my fraudulent damehood. I started getting abuse online for having accepted a damehood, which is the ultimate mark of authenticity.

I'm here shining up my fraudulent damehood. I started getting abuse online for having accepted a damehood, which is the ultimate mark of authenticity.

It's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers. Join me and my all female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men. These were women who traded in crime, but who were ahead of their time. History calls them criminals. Society calls them frauds.

It's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers. Join me and my all female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men. These were women who traded in crime, but who were ahead of their time. History calls them criminals. Society calls them frauds.

But here on Lady Swindlers, we call them ordinary women who lived extraordinary lives. And we're still talking about them today.

But here on Lady Swindlers, we call them ordinary women who lived extraordinary lives. And we're still talking about them today.

Or travel with us to 1920s New York to meet Celia Cooney, the bobbed-haired bandit. A celebrity armed robber with a plan. But deep down, all she really wants is her dream home. And you don't have to just take our word for it.

Or travel with us to 1920s New York to meet Celia Cooney, the bobbed-haired bandit. A celebrity armed robber with a plan. But deep down, all she really wants is her dream home. And you don't have to just take our word for it.

This season, we're chasing fake mediums, a lady burglar and the infamous Yorkshire witch from England and Scotland to the US and beyond. Our Lady Swindlers are truly international. She moved from Scotland to England to Italy, later to New York, to New Zealand and Australia. As always, we're travelling back in time with our in-house historian, Professor Rosalind Krohn.

This season, we're chasing fake mediums, a lady burglar and the infamous Yorkshire witch from England and Scotland to the US and beyond. Our Lady Swindlers are truly international. She moved from Scotland to England to Italy, later to New York, to New Zealand and Australia. As always, we're travelling back in time with our in-house historian, Professor Rosalind Krohn.

And we've even come up with our own criminal nicknames. Cunning Krohn. Luce the Noose. Luce, Lucy and Robert Ross.

And we've even come up with our own criminal nicknames. Cunning Krohn. Luce the Noose. Luce, Lucy and Robert Ross.

Not all of them can be gone. Our guest detective team is expanding too. This season we're joined by broadcasters, barristers, authors, activists, a psychologist and even an artist.

Not all of them can be gone. Our guest detective team is expanding too. This season we're joined by broadcasters, barristers, authors, activists, a psychologist and even an artist.

Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history with a twist. Available now. Listen on the BBC app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, where true crime meets history with a twist. Available now. Listen on the BBC app or wherever you get your podcasts.