Histoire Criminelle, les enquêtes de Scotland...

Southampton, 1929 Cette affaire débute dans un garage, un garage avec une enseigne reconnaissable entre toutes : une tête de loup peinte en rouge, celle de la « Wolf’s Head Oil Company ». Un froid matin de janvier 1929, au milieu des boites d’huiles éparpillées, on retrouve un co ...  Show more

Londres, 1840 Notre série débute dans l’un des quartiers les plus élégants de la capitale : Mayfair, à deux pas de Hyde Park. Dans une petite rue élégante qui s’appelle Norfolk Street. Une rue bordée de belles demeures, dans laquelle on se sent bien. Et pour cause : il y a des ro ...  Show more

In the first of two programmes, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.Between the middle of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth, Britain was transformed. This was a revolution, but not a political one: over the course of a few gene ...  Show more

London is today one of the greatest cities in the world, and the story of its origins is fittingly spectacular. Founded by the Romans as Londinium in around 47-50 AD, the metropolis served as a major commercial hub and indeed military target until its abandonment in the 5th ce ...

On 8 August 1963, a gang of thieves held up a British Royal Mail train on its journey from Glasgow to London. They stole more than £2 million. It was the biggest ever raid on a British train.Most of the robbers ended up behind bars, but most of the money has never been recovered. ...  Show more

In 1897 Queen Victoria marked her diamond jubilee and Britain was in a celebratory mood. The British Empire had never been stronger. Few could imagine that this world-spanning empire might very well be peaking. But in 1897 Britain was in no mood for painful self-reflection. Inste ...  Show more