A Very British Murder

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A Very British Murder

Lucy Worsley explains our macabre fixation with killing. Hear how real-life crimes in the early 1800s gave society a thirst for murder.

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Series 1
1:00:00
Learn about the boom in detective fiction during the interwar era, a time of Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock. Lucy Worsley's chronology of killing climaxes.
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Lucy Worsley dissects society's dark obsession with slayings. Hear how science and detection affected the culture of homicide in the Victorian Age.
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