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.

On today's open book, a journey across the Black Atlantic.

From fictional islands in the Caribbean to Luciferne Sojourns to Scandinavia, we have three books

that blur the lines between Africa and Europe.

Later on, I'll be speaking to the British Garname poet Ni Aieque Parks and the Portuguese Angolan musician

Calaf Epalanga about their transition from performers to novelists. But first, the multi-award

winning author Lelais Lemae, whose 2020 book, The Country of Others, was the first in a trilogy of

novels following the fortunes and frictions of the French Moroccan Belhage family.

Watch Us Dance, the second in the series,

is an equally electrifying exploration of Moroccan society in the midst of huge change as embodied by a multi-generational cast of characters.

Only this time it's the wild abandon and revolutionary politics

of the 1960s and 1970s, which shapes their lives.

And I'm pleased to say that Leila joins me now on the line from Paris.

Leila, in the country of others, we met the French woman, Matild, who moves continents to start a family with Amin after World War II.

But could you tell us where we find this family at the beginning of this new novel Watchers Dance? Yes, at the beginning of Watchers Dance, we are in 1968 in Morocco

that is freshly independent. And Amin and Mathilde are now bourgeois after struggling for many,

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