Hallie Rubenhold
Author Hallie Rubenhold speaks about her prize-winning book of non-fiction, The Five.
Bookclub · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Presented by James Naughtie, the writer and historian Hallie Rubenhold takes questions from a Bookclub audience on her prize-winning book The Five: The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed by Jack The Ripper. The book shines a light on Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly who were all murdered in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. The Five won the Ballie-Gifford Prize for non-fiction in 2019.
This episode was recorded at The Queen's Reading Room Festival at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
Producer: Dominic Howell Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.