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Radio 3,26 Feb 2019,44 mins

Jack the Ripper and women as victims

Free Thinking

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Historian Hallie Rubenhold, librettist Emma Jenkins, Dr Kate Lister from the @WhoresofYore twitter account and novelist Ruth Ware join Matthew Sweet. Hallie Rubenhold has published The Five - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Dr Kate Lister teaches at Leeds Trinity University and is the author of Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects. Iain Bell's opera Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel opens at ENO in London on 30th March. Ruth Ware's most recent psychological thriller is The Death of Mrs Westaway. Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is on Netflix. Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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