On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

I'm Alex von Tundselman.

This is The Lucan Obsession.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

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Today we go inside Bob Dylan, across Northern Italy and all over war-jittery Europe. With me to introduce

their good read are the writer and comedian Rob Newman, who first hit the mainstream with the

Mary White House experience and Newman and Badil, and whose most recent Radio 4 series include

the total eclipse of Descartes and the half-full philosophy hour.

The latest of Rob's six books is Neuropolis, a brain science survival guide,

and his on tour with a new stand-up show this autumn.

With Rob is the author, broadcaster and screenwriter Safras Manzoor,

whose memoir greetings from Barry Park about growing up in Luton and the music of Bruce Springsteen was made into the feature film Blinded by the Light that he co-scripted.

Salfrazzar's most recent book, They, What Muslims and Non-Muslims get wrong about each other, is out in paperback this autumn.

Saffaraz, to you first, your choice of a good read is what?

It's Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume 1, notable because there never was a volume 2, and it came out in 2004,

and it's a sort of memoir. It's about him sort of talking about the influences that made him the artist he is. And

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