This is the second episode about Eve’s Tearoom so listen to episode 1 of this series first. Last episode we visited a Greenwich Village tearoom in the mid-1920’s which hung a small sign on its door reading: “men are admitted but not welcome” and relayed the story of the police raid which closed it down. Tonight we follow the two women, lesbian adventurer Eve Adams and policewoman Margaret Leonard, who clashed in Greenwich Village in 1926 to find out what happened to them afterwards. The raid on the tea room ripped one woman from her family, chosen family, and friends. The event put her in prison, sentenced her to debilitating labour, and deported her across the ocean to a country she was unfamiliar with. The other made her career from her actions at the tearoom, launching into a life of daring undercover work.

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