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 Fontunzelman.

This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, today on Open Book, we enter the perilous world of thieves and poets.

Stick around for a satirical delve into literary plagiarism later.

But first, we question who owns a story in a deeper sense.

Guy Gunnaratner's breakthrough in our mad and furious city,

one plaudits for its unflinching exploration of an increasingly polarised London

in the wake of Lee Rigby's murder.

Guy's latest novel similarly refuses to shy away from challenging ground.

Mr Mr is narrated by Yar Yard Bass,

telling the story of his alienated childhood in East Ham through to radicalisation

and a fateful journey to the Middle East. Addressed to an unknown interrogator, the book

places a young man's attempts to vocalise his experiences within a demonised culture against the

backdrop of world-shaping global events, such as both Gulf Wars and the fallout from September

the 11th. And I'm pleased to say that Guy joins me now in the Open Book's studio.

Guy, as I mentioned there, your book's narrator, Yaya, starts the story at the beginning of his life

and it becomes clear how his early experiences shape him. Could you do the same and tell us about some of those formative experiences?

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