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Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

Books and Authors

BBC

Society & Culture, Books

4.2824 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

It was an extraordinary news story.

0:09.0

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

0:14.0

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

0:18.0

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

0:21.6

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

0:25.6

I'm Alex Fondunzelman.

0:26.6

This is The Lucan Obsession.

0:28.6

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.6

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:36.6

Somertime. Summer, summer, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Summertime.

0:47.0

June is the month that officially kickstart summer in the Northern Hemisphere, which means that it's time to pack away the worries of the winter just gone until at least September.

0:52.2

And if 2022 doesn't turn out to be the summer of love exactly,

0:56.2

there is at least the promise of a few months under the sun

0:58.7

with friends and family in the great outdoors.

1:01.7

For many of us, while we missed human connection,

1:04.5

rediscovering a deep connection with nature

1:06.6

was one of the more positive things to come out of the COVID crisis.

1:10.4

And in today's open book, we'll be finding our roots in the garden

1:14.0

and planning some routes through balmy evenings and clandestine crop circles.

1:18.9

Lula Ellander's grounding, finding home in a garden,

1:21.5

is about creating a thriving green space in a plot which might soon be lost.

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