Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Hosted by Lucy Worsley · BBC Radio 4
4.8from 1,687 ratings
- 92
- Episodes
- 43
- Transcribed
- 1,687
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley investigates women from the past being put on trial from a feminist perspective.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- history · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Apr 2022
- Latest episode
- 25 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
43 of 92 episodes have a transcript.
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Don’t Women’s Clothes Have Pockets? (From Here For The History)
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ladies in Court
11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lucy Meares and Sophia Richards - Transported Sisters
Inside a recent episode
Why Don’t Women’s Clothes Have Pockets? (From Here For The History)
Published 25 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And this is often creating those dresses that you see in films like Pride and Prejudice. So the waistlines of women's dresses move from the natural waist up to under the bust. They call it the Empire Line. And this is because one of the proponents of this style was Empress Josephine, who was married to Napoleon, and he was leader of the first French Empire. And so that gives us the name Empire. And they often call it the empire silhouette. They call it the goddess dress, the column dress. And because of that, it really became very popular. But what is the relevance of this to our story? Well, this new style does come with a bit of a problem. […]
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- Alice Loxton
- Ben Henderson
- Rosalind Crone
- Nneka Akodulu
- Sasha Wass KC
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 544 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,143 ratings
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- 65
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 100
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Lucy Worsley host the show. Published by BBC Radio 4.
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