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Loveable Rogues

Loveable Rogues

Loveable Rogues

In this episode, we look at seventeenth and eighteenth century celebrity criminals.

Hosted by

Dame

Joanna

Lumley

Sound Editing

Viel

Richardson

Listen Now:

0:00/1:34

The Highwayman of Hearts

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Joanna

Clarke

About this story

Claude Duval’s story is that of a 17th-century highwayman who women love and men fear.

Delve Deeper

Wikipedia has a good painting of Claude Duval dancing with a lady on the highway.

The Pregnant Pickpocket with Four Hands

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

Jenny Diver is a cunning 18th-Century pickpocket who will be forever immortalised in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

Hanged in 1741, Jenny Diver was a pickpocket famed for stashing her loot in a fake pregnancy belly. Immortalised in Gay’s ‘Beggar’s Opera’ and ‘Mack the Knife’. The Georgian Underworld has an account of Jenny Diver, and her wonderful ‘cant’ vocabulary, and you can read more about her life and death at Capital Punishment UK.

Somone’s Sneakin’ Round the Corner

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Zak

Ghazi-Torbati

About this story

Notorious thief Jack Sheppard was widely known in the 18th-Century for his daring prison escapes. He inspired the character MacHeath in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and he’s the Mack of the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

You can find Jack’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

The Highwayman of Hearts

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Joanna

Clarke

About this story

Claude Duval’s story is that of a 17th-century highwayman who women love and men fear.

Delve Deeper

Wikipedia has a good painting of Claude Duval dancing with a lady on the highway.

The Pregnant Pickpocket with Four Hands

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

Jenny Diver is a cunning 18th-Century pickpocket who will be forever immortalised in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

Hanged in 1741, Jenny Diver was a pickpocket famed for stashing her loot in a fake pregnancy belly. Immortalised in Gay’s ‘Beggar’s Opera’ and ‘Mack the Knife’. The Georgian Underworld has an account of Jenny Diver, and her wonderful ‘cant’ vocabulary, and you can read more about her life and death at Capital Punishment UK.

Somone’s Sneakin’ Round the Corner

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Zak

Ghazi-Torbati

About this story

Notorious thief Jack Sheppard was widely known in the 18th-Century for his daring prison escapes. He inspired the character MacHeath in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and he’s the Mack of the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

You can find Jack’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

The Highwayman of Hearts

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Joanna

Clarke

About this story

Claude Duval’s story is that of a 17th-century highwayman who women love and men fear.

Delve Deeper

Wikipedia has a good painting of Claude Duval dancing with a lady on the highway.

The Pregnant Pickpocket with Four Hands

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Lulu

Freeman

About this story

Jenny Diver is a cunning 18th-Century pickpocket who will be forever immortalised in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

Hanged in 1741, Jenny Diver was a pickpocket famed for stashing her loot in a fake pregnancy belly. Immortalised in Gay’s ‘Beggar’s Opera’ and ‘Mack the Knife’. The Georgian Underworld has an account of Jenny Diver, and her wonderful ‘cant’ vocabulary, and you can read more about her life and death at Capital Punishment UK.

Somone’s Sneakin’ Round the Corner

Written by

Olivia

Bell

Performed by

Zak

Ghazi-Torbati

About this story

Notorious thief Jack Sheppard was widely known in the 18th-Century for his daring prison escapes. He inspired the character MacHeath in The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera, and he’s the Mack of the song Mack the Knife.

Delve Deeper

You can find Jack’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

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