This documentary unravels the bizarre stories surrounding the murder of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. The story is one of the biggest falls from grace the British aristocracy ever recorded, featuring the first interview with the woman convicted of aiding and abetting the Earl’s murder. The Earl of Shaftesbury was the scion of an historic family whose assets included grand properties in the UK and France, a 9000-acre estate and works of art worth tens of millions of pounds. He split his time between the ancestral family home in Dorset and the French Riviera where he enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle of drink, drugs and sex with women, all funded by his multi-million-pound inheritance.
Edwina Currie, Matthew Parris and Ian Hislop lead politicians and journalists, who share personal memories of Cecil Parkinson and the scandal that ended his political ambitions. In 1983, the politician's 12-year affair with his secretary, Sara Keays, was revealed in a media storm that overshadowed the Conservative Party's Conference, forcing him to resign in disgrace.
A toxic divorce case in 1963 involving sexually explicit Polaroid photos of the Duchess of Argyll with an unidentified man rocked 1960s Britain. Who was he?
