72. Disappearing Act | Lucky Lord Lucan : Act I

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 5 of Done and Dunne and our investigation into the mysterious vanishing of Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, also known as Lucky.

John Bingham certainly started life on a lucky streak. This episode delves into Lord Lucan’s background, including his family, early childhood, and the meeting his future wife Veronica Duncan. We also introduce our wide cast of characters all playing in the hot spot of 1960s swinging London, John Aspinall’s Clermont Club and Mark Birley’s Annabel’s.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com.
0:05.5	U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible.com.uk slash Wondery. Welcome to Dunn and Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining
0:24.2	our investigation today, and do I have a story for you, friends? We are taking an international
0:30.6	departure this season, which is all today. All the episodes in season five dropping for you in one big dollop as we head across the pond
0:40.4	to explore the mysterious vanishing of Lord Lucan, the very posh playboy aristocrat, given name Richard
0:50.3	John Bingham, with really just about every hand in life dealt in a mostly positive way,
0:57.2	a lot going for him, really. Lord Lucan does have one famous hand at the gambling tables,
1:03.2	which will provide him with his nickname Lucky. Lucky Lucan. See, Lucky might not have been as lucky as his name suggests. Adding in his own choices
1:15.2	in life as we all do. It is on November 8, 1974, Lord Luchin disappears. Out of here. Just simply
1:25.9	vanishes off the face of the world.
1:29.5	Troubling about this quick goodbye, lucky thing,
1:33.4	his ghosting of the world is just hours after his children's nanny
1:39.3	has been found murdered in Lord Lucan's about to be ex-wife's home. Lord Lucan and his
1:47.7	Lady Veronica Lucan have been going through quite an ugly divorce and custody battle after a
1:54.5	terribly unhappy decade of marriage. It is terribly suspicious timing for the absent Lucky.
2:02.8	Hours after the crime, Lucky's just gone, not to be found, unless you are Dominic Dunn,
2:11.6	on the beat of Lord Lucan's vanishing from November 8, 1974,
2:21.6	our man Nick will get on this investigative beat once his writing career is in full swing in his Vanity Fair days.
2:27.2	Dominic Dunn writes a piece for Vanity Fair in May 1993 called The Gentleman Vanishes.
2:38.3	Dunn's work will come 20 years after Lucky's Irish goodbye on a cold, wet, and weary, November 8, 1974. And our man, Nick has questions.
2:48.7	He will ask many, many questions, only getting some answers. But there is
2:54.8	something awfully fishy when it comes to the Swinging London High Society set that Lucky Lucan is
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