A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
The Golden Age
Season 1 Episode 3 of 3
The historian tells the story of one of the first high-profile killers - Dr Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife - before turning her attention to the interwar period, when detective fiction reached the peak of its popularity at the hands of authors Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. After undergoing the elaborate initiation ceremony of the Detection Club, which was set up by a group of British writers in 1930, Lucy considers how Alfred Hitchcock's films and Graham Greene's books eclipsed the traditional murder-mystery story in the depiction of homicide
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley airs on U&Yesterday HD at 2:00 AM, Wednesday 27 May. (Subtitles, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Lucy Worsley
Presenter
Alastair Laurence
Series Producer
Michael Poole
Executive Producer
Matthew Thomas
Director