Crosshairs

Episode 2 : Jean-Paul Marat

Its 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Famed political journalist Jean-Paul Marat, a voice for those
who want rid of the excesses of the monarchy, is taking a meeting in his bathroom. He has a debilitating skin
condition and the bath is the only place where he can find relief. It's there that the twenty-four year old Charlotte
Corday finds him, claiming she has information about his political opponents but instead plunging a knife into
Marat’s chest, ending the life of one of the most vocal anti-royalists of his time.
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With one squeeze of a trigger, or flash of a blade, the course of history can change forever.
In this series - we tell the stories of assassinations throughout history, plotting the path of the killer and victim, step by step, until they meet. We examine the fall out, following the assassination of world leaders. We reveal how cultural icons were targeted, and why. And we unpack stories which you may never have heard about before.
From What's the Story Sounds - and narrated by Jonathan Guy Lewis - Crosshairs is your weekly dose of crime and history, with new episodes every Thursday.