The Clockwork Orange Murder is murder that led to the Stanley Kubrick withdrawing his film The Clockwork Orange from Britain during his lifetime. This copycat killing saw an elderly vagrant bludgeoned to death in a church graveyard – just like in the film. Part two is the Rhyl Mummy following a mummy discovery in a home. When Leslie Harvey decided to get his mum’s house redecorated while she was in hospital, he hadn’t bargained for discovering a twenty year old mummified body in the landing cupboard. The body was that of a former lodger of his mother’s and it transpired that Mrs Harvey had been helping herself to the victims maintenance payments ever since.
The Great Train Robbery took place in In August 1963, sixteen men pulled off one of the most daring crimes in British History. They hijacked and robbed £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an extraordinary feat of meticulous planning. Death at the 'Blind Beggar' follows the crime that shot the Kray Twins to notoriety and led to the eventual downfall of their gang. The Blind Beggar, a pub in the heart of London’s East End was the setting for the point blank killing of rival gangster George Cornell.
Murder in Suburbia examines a classic love triangle that rocked suburbia and ended in murder and death for all three protagonists. Edith Thompson had an affair with lodger Fred that resulted in him killing her husband Percy. Although Edith did not participate in the murder, she was hanged for it. While The Blonde Assassin is a tale of sex, lust and jealousy as Ruth Ellis shot dead her unfaithful lover David Blakley outside the Magdala Pub in Hampstead on Easter Sunday. For this crime, she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
In 1976 Peter Hogg killed his unfaithful wife Margaret, wrapped her body in a roll of carpet and dumped it in the Wast Water in Cumbria. The accidental discovery of the body seven years later led to Hogg’s arrest and details of his ‘awful marriage’ coming to light. The Honeymoon Murder is about two wealthy Chinese newlyweds who arrived in the Lake District in 1928 to enjoy their honeymoon. Husband Chung Yi Mao became distraught when his wife’s body was found dead in local waters. Despite his law degree, he slipped up when giving evidence to the police and it emerged that he had murdered her for her vast fortune
The brutal murder of 22 year old maidservant Rose Harsent has remained unsolved for nearly a century. She was pregnant and her body was badly burned. A man was tried twice for her murder but never convicted. The events of that night still remain a mystery. Part two is about Alma Rattenbury who was accused of bludgeoning her husband to death with a carpenters mallet, although ultimately it was her 18 year old garden boy and lover who was convicted of the murder. Three days later Alma committed suicide, unable to cope with her true loves gaol sentence. However, the true motive for the murder remains in doubt even after all these years.
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Presented by Maxwell Hutchinson, this third programme looks at No 57 between 1880-1905 and shows how Victorian Gothic and the influence of the aesthetic and arts and crafts movement affected the house. No 57 is by now not as fashionable as it once was and the whole area has come down in the world a little bit. The occupants are the Alders - who turn one room into a nursery for their children and Mrs Annie Edwards, a music teacher with grown up children is a lodger in the house.
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The former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects will examine how design has affected one Georgian house and its inhabitants in Bristol, from when it was first built in 1779 right up to the present day. Throughout the series Maxwell reveals how fashions in interior design have mirrored social, political and economic trends. The opening programme reveals how the house was built as part of a boom in speculative building in Bristol and who the early residents were. Covering the period from 1779 – 1845 the main characters are John Britton, a young gentleman who decorated the house in late Georgian simplicity and Mrs Hobbs, a widow who lived in the house for thirty years and followed the latest Regency interior trends.
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1945: The Year that changed the world - The Beginning of the End
Tensions between the Allies mount. The British want to strike into the heart of Germany but the Americans are cautious and don’t want to loose men. This allows the Russians to advance deep into Eastern Europe.
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