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Introducing https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/
"The Art of Crime is a podcast exploring the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts--created, written, and narrated by Gavin Whitehead", my son, who was awarded his DFA from the Yale School of Drama last spring.
Season 1 looks at six artists who have been accused of being the notorious Jack the Ripper who killed at least five women in the East End of London in 1888. The first two episodes of Season 1 are now available on many podcasting apps--including Google, Apple, Spotify and other podcasting apps--but you may also listen to it (with accompanying musical background) on the website, which also has photos, drawings, maps, transcripts of the episodes, references and other information.
I just finished listening to (S1E1)--The Whitechapel Murders--and I was fascinated to learn more about the victims and their lives in Victorian 19th Century London. (S1E2) introduces Willy Clarkson, Master of Disguise, who was a famous theatrical wigmaker and costume designer in London, as a suspect.
If you are fascinated by true crime--particularly ones unsolved--and curious about the connection of art to crime, please take a listen! (And subscribe!)
Thanks!
Edited to add that the podcast is now available on Google's free podcast app.
badhair77
(4,191 posts)Good for him. Sounds fascinating. Im bookmarking to check it out later.
yardwork
(61,408 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,316 posts)and I am hooked. I've never been particularly interested in the gruesome murders of Jack the Ripper, but I have always liked historical drama and murder mysteries. On a family trip to London when my son was still in high school, we went on a Jack the Ripper evening walk. Who knew where that was going to lead?
I don't listen to podcasts. I installed the free Google app to be able to access this, which sounds better on my phone than it did listening to the website on my laptop. I am thoroughly intrigued by the story, the details of the lives and circumstances in Victorian London of the victims, and the ability of the killer to evade being apprehended. Some very well known artists of the day have been named as suspects and it's quite the puzzle to reveal how and why they could be caught up in this mystery.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,327 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,316 posts)that when he checked the analytics on his website, that the next highest number of hits after Google, was from DU. Thanks for that!
I watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II this morning. We took the boys to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace on that Thanksgiving family trip almost 20 years ago when we also did a walking Jack the Ripper tour. That same trip I went to an evening Holiday Service at Westminster Abbey and heard the choirs singing Christmas songs. It was really special. The acoustics are marvelous.
I can't help but think, though, of the overwhelming poverty and misogyny that led to such horrible living circumstances in the East End of London where these brutal murders happened, in a place to which middle class and the gentry of England turned a blind eye, during the reign of a previous Queen of England.