Lucy Worsley's Crime Collection
Hand-picked programmes on the themes of 19th-century murder and mores.
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Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The glittering world of Lucy Graham, who gains all the wealth she desires by marrying Sir Michael Audley. Stars Hattie Morahan.
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The Invention of Murder, by Judith Flanders
Over the course of the 19th century, murder - in reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into novels, ballads, theatre and melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores this fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the century's most gripping and gruesome cases.
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate Summerscale
One summer's night in 1860 an unimaginably gruesome murder takes place in a remote Georgian country house. Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a Victorian murder case that gripped the nation.
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Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley investigates Florence Bravo, the focus of a sensational unsolved Victorian murder case, and asks whether she was a ruthless poisoner or an abused wife.
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Ladykillers: the historian detectives' take on Victorian crime
Looking at the lives of 19th female killers through the prism of modern thinking.
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Condemnation or compassion?
Do the cases of Florence Bravo and Mary Ann Cotton have anything to say to us now?
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Giving female murderers and witnesses a voice
Insights into the world of the Victorians and their attitudes to the accused.
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Encounters with Victoria
Lucy Worsley explores Victoria's reign through significant encounters.
