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, few revolutions are as sudden or total as the one that occurs when you become a parent.

Twenty years on from publication, I'll be discussing Rachel Cusk's controversial account of motherhood,

a life's work, with Laura Dockrell and Kate Moss.

But before that, a revolution of a different kind, the one that shook

French colonial Morocco in the 1950s. Leila Slamani is the world-renowned French Moroccan author

of Adele and Lullaby, a chilling depiction of a nanny working in modern-day Paris which won

the pre-goncourt. Her latest novel, The Country of Others, a generational saga

set in tumultuous times, marks the beginning of a planned trilogy that draws on the writer's own

family history. And to discuss it, I'm delighted to say Leila joins me now down the line from Rabat.

Leila, welcome to Open Book. Thank you. Thank you so much. One of your main characters in the novel, Matild, comes to Morocco from Alsace in the 1940s,

while her new husband Amin is returning there after fighting for France in the Second World War.

What state is the country in when they arrive?

It's the end, as you said, the end of the war.

And Morocco is living a kind of revolution because when France lost against the Nazi in 1940, the vision Moroccan people,

and especially the elite has of France is going to change. For the first time, they think that

maybe France is a weak country and maybe they can

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