#203. Britains Female Mafia Boss ‘The Black Widow’ - Linda Calvey
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Linda Calvey, also known as the Black Widow, is one of Britain's most notorious female gangsters.
Known for committing armed robberies and accused of the murder of her partner.
Linda shares her story of police conspiracy, gangland murder and talks Myra Hindley, Reggie Ray & Charles Bronson.
This is The Eventful Life of Miss Linda Calvey.
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| 0:00.0 | How was that for you being the wife of someone who's bang at it still? |
| 0:03.8 | It was the life that I'd never seen. |
| 0:05.7 | We got married while he was in Bronsworth Prison. |
| 0:08.6 | You got married while he was in prison? |
| 0:10.3 | Took me out another time and that's when I met Reggie Gray. |
| 0:13.5 | I was sort of so in this bubble that I didn't think past that bubble until in 1978. |
| 0:23.5 | My husband went on a robbery and he said to me I really really don't want to go so I said well don't go he said I have to and on that robbery he got |
| 0:28.6 | shot dead and it was from that day I changed in his coffin on the day that he was buried I I said to him, I will take up what you were doing. |
| 0:40.1 | I'll become the leader of the game. |
| 0:42.2 | And you gained a lot of respect very quickly. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.7 | I got charged with gangland murder. |
| 0:46.9 | The tariff starts 21 years up. |
| 0:50.1 | Reggie Cray used to write to me and he proposed to me twice as we walked inside my house. |
| 0:56.0 | Bang! |
| 0:57.0 | And we turned and there was somebody there, big figure in black with a balaclava and a son of shocker. |
| 1:03.0 | And I saw the blood coming through this jacket and he pulled his mask up. |
| 1:08.0 | Did you know who he was? |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. |
| 1:25.0 | On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives. |
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