Ménage à Murder: 1920s Love Triangle Killers
Edith Thompson was the model 1920's flapper girl. Her husband Percy was more suburban. When young Freddy Bywater entered the marriage home, things became deadly.This week Maddy Pelling tells Anthony D...
14 Okt 202449min
Bodies in the Walls: Postwar London's Darkest Crime
John Reginald Christie was the most notorious murderer of his era. On the outside he was every inch the Old Fashioned Englishman, respectable norms personified. But inside the walls and under the floo...
10 Okt 202450min
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Doctor (Suspect 4)
Part 4/4. By looking at the men accused of being Jack the Ripper, we uncover dark truths about Victorian society - and our own. Why were these men, most of them almost certainly innocent, singled out ...
7 Okt 202439min
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Discover the true story of Burke and Hare’s murderous rampage through the streets of Edinburgh, all to serve the needs of the city’s scientific minds. We're rerunning this early episode to mark the re...
3 Okt 202444min
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Artist (Suspect 3)
Part 3/4. By looking at the men accused of being Jack the Ripper, we uncover dark truths about Victorian society - and our own. Why were these men, most of them almost certainly innocent, singled out ...
30 Sep 202450min
Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata
The wounds that Christ received on the cross - the stigmata - have had a strange afterlife, reappearing on the flesh of followers from St Francis of Assisi right through to the present. The stigmata a...
26 Sep 202435min
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Barber (Suspect 2)
Part 2/4. By looking at the men accused of being Jack the Ripper, we uncover dark truths about Victorian society - and our own. Why were these men, most of them almost certainly innocent, singled out ...
23 Sep 202451min
Ned Kelly: Australia's Notorious Outlaw
Ned Kelly is a murdering, bank-robbing, Australian folk hero. What is the true history of this mythic figure? And how did an outlaw - or bushranger - rise up to become a symbol for a new nation?Anthon...
19 Sep 202438min
