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Sounds,25 Mar 2024,60 mins

Series The Blackout Ripper

The Death of a Quiet Druggist

Bad Women

Available for 156 days

Evelyn Hamilton has annoyed her bosses in the male-dominated world of pharmacy - they find her quiet and independent nature mystifying and odd. After an unhappy stint at a druggist shop outside London, she's landed a new job and a fresh start in a faraway town. In February 1942, Evelyn sets out on her long journey 鈥� just as the Blackout Ripper is hunting for his first victim鈥� Join hosts Hallie Rubenhold and Alice Fiennes as they trace Evelyn's life and struggles; and with the help of Lauren Ober (host of The Loudest Girl in the World podcast) examine why the quiet pharmacist's demeanour provoked such hostility. Sources: Andrews, Maggie and Lomas, Janis. The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Diniejko, Dr. Andrzej. 鈥楢 Chronology of Social Change and Social Reform in Great Britain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries鈥�, The Victorian Web, 2014 Neale, Alexa. 鈥楥ase Files For Murder Trials: The Case of Cyril Johnson鈥�, 鈥淒omestic Murder鈥� She Wrote, September 2016 Webb, Laura and Webb, Kevin. 鈥楽elina Cooper: The Story of a Working Class Suffragist鈥�, March 2019, UK Vote 100

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