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Detection Most Ingenious

Lucy Worsley explores how real-life crime, science and the emerging art of detection had an influence on the popular culture of homicide during the Victorian Age.

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59 minutes

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Music Played

  • Louis Levy & His Orchestra

    Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

  • Yann Tiersen

    7 Pm

  • Four Tet

    Circling

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (1st mvt: Adagio - Moderato)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Til Enda

BBC History

BBC History

The sensational murder stories of the Victorian era sold newspapers and crime fiction in a way that had never been seen before.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Lucy Worsley
Producer Rachel Jardine
Director Rachel Jardine
Series Producer Alastair Laurence
Executive Producer Michael Poole

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