The Notorious Dr Crippen | Devil's Breath
4/15/202651 min
In the Old Bailey, evidence piles up, tempers flare, and Hawley Crippen discovers that pyjamas can tell a damning story.
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First 90 secondsAlice Levine· Host0:00
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Matt Forde· Host0:14
I'm just filling in my passport form.
Alice Levine· Host0:16
Oh, yeah.
Matt Forde· Host0:16
Obviously need to get it counter-signed by someone from a credible profession.
Alice Levine· Host0:20
Yeah.
Matt Forde· Host0:20
Someone who, you know, is an upstanding member of society.
Alice Levine· Host0:23
What are you thinking?
Matt Forde· Host0:24
Um, I was thinking I'd get a lawyer.
Alice Levine· Host0:26
Yeah, okay. Yeah. I mean, not entirely uncontroversial.
Matt Forde· Host0:32
Good point. Yeah. I need maybe, like, an industry that's more respected.
Alice Levine· Host0:36
Unimpeachable.
Matt Forde· Host0:37
Yes. Like maybe, maybe journalists or, or tabloid editors.
Alice Levine· Host0:41
Ugh, I don't know why, that makes me a bit nervous.
Matt Forde· Host0:44
Oh, a, a member of the Catholic Church.
Alice Levine· Host0:46
Why don't we just go back to the drawing board maybe?
Matt Forde· Host0:49
I see where you're nudging me with this. I need to effectively go higher up.
Alice Levine· Host0:53
Yeah, just untarnished, no controversy, a profession that just, like, everybody loves and isn't gonna kind of raise any eyebrows.
Matt Forde· Host1:00
How about prince?
Alice Levine· Host1:01
Just pick carefully out of the ones available. [birds squawking] 27th of August, 1910, SS Megantic, just off Liverpool docks. Ethel follows the warder onto the deck, feels her stomach churn with nerves as the huge domed building at the pier head comes into view. She pulls the veil from her hat low over her face and tries not to cry. This last