Pushkin

Hey Deep Cover listeners!

While we're working on a new season, I wanted to share a preview of another Pushkin show.

It's called Bad Women.

In a gripping first season, historian Hailey Rubenhold uncovered the true stories of Jack

the Ripper's victims.

And now she's back with a new season, exploring the lives of the women murdered by another depraved

killer, the Blackout Ripper.

Hailey takes listeners back to wartime London, whose buildings have been devastated by a

rain of bombs and where the streets have been plunged into darkness.

Over a single week in February of 1942, the Blackout Ripper stalks these streets, hunting

for his victims night after night in bars and clubs.

New research from police files, court transcripts, and exhaustive genealogical studies.

Hailey reconstructs the lives of the women, the Blackout Ripper brutally attacked and murdered.

These were women who were dismissed as mere good-time girls, who were asking for trouble

for choosing independent lives in the city.

She examines what place these women at the margins of society and why the war years

were perilous for so many women.

In the preview you're about to hear, Greta Hayward finds herself walking through the Blackout

City with a lute and menacing airmen who just won't leave her alone.

And with each step, her panic rises.

Will she ever reach safety?

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