They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper

In a literary high-wire act, Bruce Robinson offers a radical reinterpretation of Jack the Ripper, contending that he was not the madman of common legend, but the vile manifestation of the Victorian Age's moral bankruptcy. In exploring the case of Jack the Ripper, Robinson asserts that any ""gentlemen"" that walked above the fetid gutters of London, the nineteenth century's most depraved city, often harbored proclivities both violent and taboo-yearnings that went entirely unpunished, especially if he bore royal connections. As Robinson makes clear with his unique brilliance, the Ripper was far from a poor resident of Whitechapel ⦠he was a way of life.

Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail & I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Jennifer 8, and The Rum Diary. He has also written the screenplays for The Killing Fields, Shadow Makers (released in the US as Fat Man and Little Boy), Return to Paradise, and In Dreams. He is the author of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, Paranoia in the Launderette, and two books for children, The Obvious Elephant and Harold and the Duck, both illustrated by Sophie Windham. He lives in London.

Phil Fox studied acting at RADA, where he won the Bronze medal and the Character Acting Prize. He has experience on stage and on TV, including playing Major Von Pfunz in Moira Buffini's Gabriel and playing the Headteacher in John Morton's mockumentary People Like Us. As a voiceover actor, he has narrated several audiobooks, including Bruce Robinson's They All Love Jack and the first two novels of Robert Thorogood's Death in Paradise series.

Philip Fox is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.