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He was a\xa0a thug, a bully, and a murderer who made himself a British popular hero. He was a friend of Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, and he once said, \u201cI\u2019m homosexual but I\u2019m not a poof\u201d. We use the deplorable story of Ronnie Kray to explore class, crime and postwar British attitudes towards homosexuality. A content note: this episode contains frank discussions of childhood sexual abuse; as such, listener discretion is advised.\xa0\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nCampbell, Duncan. "The Selling of the Krays: How Two Mediocre Criminals Created Their Own Legend."\xa0The Guardian, 2015.\xa0https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/the-selling-of-the-krays-how-two-mediocre-criminals-created-their-own-legendlegends\nKray, Ronnie.\xa0My Story. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1993.\nPearson, John.\xa0Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. London: Arrow Books, 2011.\nPearson, John.\xa0The Profession of Violence. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.\n\xa0\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License.