Very British Murder

Historian Lucy Worsley explores how British murders from the early 19th century became a stapleof an astonishing range of entertainments. She explains how murders that both thrilled and terrified the public tell us about major cultural and social changes that were taking place in Britain. She also explores how these crimes became popular forms of entertainment, inspiring everything from ballads, puppet shows, theatre melodramas, 'whodunnit' fiction and crime thrillers at the cinema.