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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini - Frances Stonor Saunders Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of the troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926. On Wednesday 7th April 1926, in front of a crowd of cheering Fascist supporters, Benito Mussolini is shot at close quarters. The bullet nicks the bridge of his nose and the bleeding is profuse. Who shot him and why did they do it?Abridged by Jill WatersWas she mad or was she pretending to be mad to execute her theosophically rooted political agenda? And dontcha think it's a shame that the second bullet misfired? 2.5 stars