News:

We now have an integrated wiki. Log in to the forum, then visit https://brassgoggles.net/wiki/.

Main Menu

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley.

Started by Mercury Wells, May 01, 2022, 08:18:15 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Mercury Wells

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley.

On BBC iplayer


Released On: 25 Apr 2022.
Available for over a year.

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

In the first case in the series, Lucy explores the story of Florence Bravo, the woman at the heart of one of the most sensational unsolved murder cases of the Victorian era, and asks whether she was a ruthless poisoner or an abused wife.

Lucy visits The Priory, Florence Bravo's grand house in Balham where, on 21st April 1876, after three days of agony, her young husband Charles died of poisoning. They had been married for only five months but the relationship was already under strain - Charles was jealous of the much older doctor Florence had been involved with before their marriage, he was frustrated that he had only limited control of her large fortune, both of them were drinking heavily, and Florence had suffered two miscarriages in close succession.
Oh...my old war wound? I got that at The Battle of Dorking. Very nasty affair that was, I can tell you.

The Ministry of Tea respectfully advises you to drink one cup of tea day...for that +5 Moral Fibre stat.

Cora Courcelle

I haven't had a chance to see this yet, but I do hope Lucy Worsley gets a chance to dress up - she usually manages to somewhere in the programme  :)
You have to tread a fine line between avant-garde surrealism and getting yourself sectioned...

Rockula

Quote from: Cora Courcelle on May 03, 2022, 02:55:48 PM
I haven't had a chance to see this yet, but I do hope Lucy Worsley gets a chance to dress up - she usually manages to somewhere in the programme  :)

You can't 'see' it. It's a Podcast on BBC Radio 4.  ;)
The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...

Cora Courcelle

I'll just have to imagine that she's dressed up instead  :)
You have to tread a fine line between avant-garde surrealism and getting yourself sectioned...

Mercury Wells

Quote from: Cora Courcelle on May 04, 2022, 03:18:54 PM
I'll just have to imagine that she's dressed up instead  :)

Well, she was very stunningly dressed as a Georgian dandy/man about town.
Oh...my old war wound? I got that at The Battle of Dorking. Very nasty affair that was, I can tell you.

The Ministry of Tea respectfully advises you to drink one cup of tea day...for that +5 Moral Fibre stat.