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Feb 2024
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Season 07 Episode 16: Take Me Dancing To...

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In the late 1960s, there were few better places to enjoy a night out in Glasgow than the Barrowland Ballroom. 

At weekends, as many as 2000 would cram into the venue to dance away the night. 

Among them, was one of the UK's most notorious mysoginistic murderers, whose true identity remains to this day, Unexplained. 

This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith.

Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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