All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The New Taste for Blood

    • September 23, 2013
    • BBC Four

    Lucy Worsley investigates the dark and revealing history of our curious relationship with killing. She explores notorious real life crimes from the first half of the nineteenth century, finding out how these murders were transformed into popular entertainments.

  • S01E02 Detection Most Ingenious

    • September 30, 2013
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S01E03 The Golden Age

    • October 7, 2013
    • BBC Four

    Lucy Worsley explores the Edwardian era and the golden age of detective fiction between the wars - the time of Dr Crippen, Agatha Christie and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.