Greg Jenner invites you to listen to the Christmas specials in the back catalogue and looks ahead to the new series of You're Dead To Me.
Chapter 1: Who is the host of this special?
It's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of Lady Swindlers.
Chapter 2: What is the premise 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. MUSIC
Meet a swindler with ever so many names.
Chapter 3: What extraordinary crimes do women commit?
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.
Chapter 4: Who are the guest detectives joining this season?
We didn't call Celia the bob-haired bandit. We called Celia Grandma.
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 Crone.
Chapter 5: What are the historical contexts of these crimes?
And we even come up with our own criminal nicknames. Cunning Crone. Luce the Noose. Luta Lucy and Robber Roz.
No bad ideas. Not all of them can be gone.
Chapter 6: How do societal views shape the narratives of these women?
Our guest detective team is expanding too. This season, we're joined by broadcasters, barristers, authors, activists, a psychologist and even an artist.
Actually, I was always fascinated by England. I don't know, it might have to do with Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant! Yes, it did. Four weddings and a funeral. Iconic.
Chapter 7: What can we learn from the stories of working-class women?
We tried to understand these women.
This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. This is survival.
Chapter 8: Where can I listen to Lady Swindlers?
We relate to them.
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.
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.
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Ho, ho, ho! Hello, friends. Greg here. I hope you're having a lovely Christmas season and a great new year is on the horizon for you. I just thought I'd pop in here to remind you of our lovely Christmas specials from the back catalogue. We've got three, of course, to enjoy. If you scroll down in the feed, the first one you'll find is the radio edit of Christmas with Charles Dickens.
A bit further down, you'll find the full-length podcast version. Our guests there were Dr Emily Bell and, of course, Mike Wozniak. It's a lovely one.
Dickens may be part of the reason that our idealised Christmas is snowy. And it was so icy during Dickens' early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814 and London celebrated its final Thames Frost Fair that year.
So what they would do is roll out tents and vendors onto the ice, do drinking, dancing, bowling, and there was even an elephant being led across the river just below Blackfriars Bridge. What?
An elephant walking on ice, Mike. Imagine the insurance forms you have to fill in for that. The health and safety risk assessment. They must have had a moment where they thought this is probably not going to be worth it. Surely, lads, come on.
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