Seamstress Doris Staples doesn't want to see Private John Waters any more... but the American soldier has other ideas. He goes to her workplace to make sure she doesn't "step out" with any other man... and carries with him a pistol. Men were expected to seek an outlet for their s ...Show more
BONUS: Black GIs and their "Brown Babies"
Unlike white GIs, it was made virtually impossible for African-American servicemen to marry the women they met and fell in love with in the UK during World War Two. If these couples had children, those so-called "Brown Babies" were stigmatized and scorned - with many ending up in ...Show more
A no-nonsense landlady has always tried to keep a professional distance from the transient theater folk who rent her rooms. But when a sweet hopeful actress comes to stay, the landlady finds herself hopelessly entangled in the lives — and deaths — of her tenants. Learn more about ...Show more
Lucy Worsley investigates the career of one of Sydney’s most notorious gangsters, Tilly Devine. Draped in furs and encrusted in jewels, she’s the madam of one of the most lucrative brothel networks the city’s ever seen. What brings Tilly from south London to Sydney? How does she ...Show more
On this episode of They Walk Among America… In the quiet middle-class neighbourhood of Queens Village, New York City, Harriet Mulhauser was just getting ready for the day ahead. It was March 20th, 1927, and Harriet’s morning was disturbed by a sharp knock on her front door. Openi ...Show more
Whitechapel, East London. Famous among many True Crime fans for the Jack the Ripper Murders where women on the very fringes of society were incredibly vulnerable to a murderer like Jack.
In our modern-day story today, two women at the very edge of modern society - one sel ...Show more