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A Very British Murder. 3 of 3. The Golden Age.

2026-04-18 107 Dailymotion

First broadcast 7th October 2013.

Lucy Worsley looks at the golden age of murder taking in both factual examples e.g. Wallace, Crippen, and fictional examples e.g. Christie, Hitchcock.

Lucy Worsley - Self - Presenter (as Dr Lucy Worsley)
Mathew Prichard - Self - Grandson of Agatha Christie
P.D. James - Self - Crime Writer
Simon Brett - Self - Crime Writer and Master of Ceremonies, Detection Club
Charlotte Higgins - Self - Critic and Dorothy L Sayers Expert
Alfred Hitchcock - Self - Horror Film Director (archive footage)
John Russell Taylor - Self - Biographer of Alfred Hitchcock
Graham Greene - Self - Crime Writer (archive sound)
Agatha Christie - Self (archive footage)
Hawley Harvey Crippen - Self (archive footage)
Walter Dew - Self (archive footage)
Sylvia Sidney - Self - Mrs. Verloc (archive footage)