Bad Bridget
Episodes
Bad Bridget: S2E6 - The Irish
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of the season we talk about the tricky subject of discrimination, both against and by the Irish. Sophie Cooper details how the Iri...
Bad Bridget: S2E5 - The Revengers (live from Electric Picnic)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us live from Electric Picnic, Ireland’s largest music and arts festival, for this live episode on all things revenge. Hear about the women who ...
Bad Bridget: S2E4 - The Bad Girls
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many of us would have been in trouble if stubbornness was a crime when we were teenagers? Hear about how being stubborn and disobeying your parent...
Bad Bridget: S2E3 - The Lovers
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all love a happy ending … but this rarely happened for many of our Bad Bridgets. Listen in for some tales of love gone wrong. We hear how emigrat...
Bad Bridget: S2E2 - The Thieves
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever shoplifted or had your pocket picked? Well let us tell you about some of the Bad Bridgets who were extraordinary thieves. These are some...
Bad Bridget: S2E1 - The Servants
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Season 2 of the Bad Bridget podcast! To begin this season we’re talking about a very common occupation for many Irish women (and Bad...
Bad Bridget: S1E5 - The Murderers
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve saved our most sensational cases to the end! Hear about the woman who murdered her neighbour and put her in a trunk to steal her house, the wi...
Bad Bridget: S1E4 - The Demon Drink!
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish have a long association with alcohol and in this podcast we look at what happened to those Irish women who got into trouble with alcohol abr...
Bad Bridget: S1E3 - The Unmarried Mothers
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the stories of girls and women who left Ireland pregnant or became pregnant in North America outside marriage. Some who migrated from Irelan...
Bad Bridget: Season 1 Still To Come...Unmarried mothers, the demon drink, and murder...
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy a preview of the next 3 episodes in the Bad Bridget podcast, where we'll be hearing about the struggles and `shame' of unmarried mothers, the im...
Bad Bridget: S1E2 -The Sex Workers
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many Irish women travelled to North America, got jobs and sent money home. But perhaps their families did not know where that money came from! Hear a...
Bad Bridget: S1E1 - Poverty
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Bad Bridget Podcast! Hear how many young Irish girls and women, some as young as 11 or 12, travelled alone to America to escape poverty...
The Bad Bridget Podcast Trailer
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bad Bridget, the new podcast telling the untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American Dream become a nightmare In this promoti...