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Sounds,18 Dec 2023,35 mins,

Series The Ripper Retold

Polly Walks Out

Bad Women
Contains some violent scenes and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

Available for 289 days

Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she walked out on it all. Why? Surviving without a husband was almost impossible for a lone women, so Polly began a slow spiral into desperate poverty that would eventually put her in the path of her killer, Jack the Ripper.

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