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Victorian murder scandal

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Author and biographer Claire Harman talks to us about a 19th-century killing that drew in the literary world, including Dickens and Thackeray. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Some crimes over that winter were called a Jack Shepherd crime because the press had called them that.

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Some were called a Jack Shepherd crime because, say, the magistrates or the judges had called them that.

0:58.7

And some were called a Jack Shepherd crime because the perpetrators had called them that.

1:04.7

That was Claire Harmon on the impact of literary descriptions of crime in the 19th century.

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You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine,

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with the UK's best-selling history magazine, available in print and several digital formats all over the world.

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

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I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.

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Today's interview is with the author and biographer Claire Harmon,

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