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.

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Hello, it took Eam Forster 11 years to write his great Edwardian novel of empire, a passage to India.

When I began the book, I thought of it as a little bridge of sympathy between East and West.

But then, he said, my sense of truth forbids anything so comfortable.

Now, a hundred years after its publication

will be revisiting Forster's novel,

asking why it means so much to writers

and assessing how well it stands up

to the scrutiny of modern readers.

Forster began writing a passage to India in 1913,

following on from the commercial success

of his English society novels,

A Room with a View and Howard's End, but with its deeply moral questions about race and

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