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.
Dr Death' follows tale of a gruesome serial killer who used thecover of World War Two to get away with murder. Dr Marcel Petiot promised his 27 victims an escape from Nazi occupied France, but instead murdered them in cold blood in his home.The Monster at Montmarte is about the late 1980’s which saw the colourful Montmartre district of Paris terrorised by a prolific killer, who targeted elderly ladies. The police finally tracked down and arrested a transvestite drug addict and his younger boyfriend.
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.
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1945: The Year that changed the world - War in the Pacific
The Japanese industrialised early in the Twentieth Century but with no supply of natural resources, they embarked on a strategy of territorial expansionism and sought to stamp their mark on the region. The Americans and British were not happy about this and wanted to protect their own colonial interests in the region. The Americans put an embargo on trade with Japan. The Japanese choice was to give in to American wishes or launch a war against the USA.
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.
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.
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.
‘The British UFO Files’ reveals for the first time the secret history of alien aircraft investigations led by the most powerful forces within the British government. Featuring eye-witness accounts by top ranking military personnel, previously unseen top secret documentation and rare archive footage, the film examines in detail a cache of information ranging from the alleged production of Nazi UFOs to the landing of an alien spacecraft at a British air-force base.
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The third secret of Fatima was purportedly known by only two people: the Pope and Lucia, the Portuguese visionary who in an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917 was given dire prophecies of the future of the planet. Within 7 weeks of each other these two key players have died. This extraordinary story examines the original Fatima visions and how Pope John Paul II believed he was himself the fulfilment of the third secret and that through his obsession with this obscure message saved the world from a thermo nuclear holocaust.
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