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Greg Jenner talks to Lucy Worsley about Lady Killers

You're Dead to Me

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A Woman in the Dock

Lizzie Borden's story is intriguing too, because it's also about how women are supposed to behave when accused of a crime. A woman in the dock becomes like a sort of mirror reflecting back all these different views that people have,. That people hold about how women ought to behave. I think that of all the sympathetic ways that we've looked at murder, S, G, is the one that's hardest to make a case for. And they're not all found guilty, no spoilers here, but it's not a universal, every single one of them gets locked up, banged up, you know, dead to right. So there's also quite a lot of doubts,

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