大象传媒

Over the course of the 19th century, murder - in reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama.

Seeing therein the foundation of modern notions of crime, Judith Flanders explores this fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in which they were commercially exploited.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by David Jackson Young.

1. The Ratcliffe Highway Murders
2. Origins of Modern Policing
3. Red Barn Murder
4. Adelaide Bartlett
5. New Technology

Read by Robert Glenister

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in January 2011.