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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Sawyer

The week in audio: The Lucan Obsession; Halloween: Trilogy of Terror; Extrasensory – review

Lucan Stewart Lee Will Sharpe James Fox Rick Astley John Pollock Sandra Rivett BBC Sounds Radio 4
black and white photograph of Lord Lucan and Veronica Duncan, after they announced their engagement, 14th October 1963.
Pictured in October 1963, Lord Lucan and his future wife, Veronica Duncan, subjects of ‘snackable’ Radio 4 series The Lucan Obsession. Photograph: Terry Fincher/Getty Images

The History Podcast: The Lucan Obsession (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
Uncanny – Halloween: Trilogy of Terror (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
Extrasensory (Apple TV+) | Apple podcasts

The Lucan Obsession is a snackable 10-part Radio 4 version of a gory cold-case thriller. It has the familiar ingredients of a true crime show: a young woman brutally killed; weird, contested details that don’t quite add up; a main suspect who was never caught; conflicting theories as to what might have happened. But, crucially, no confession, no nailed-on “solve”. And, this being the UK, there’s a spicy extra element: the upper classes.

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