Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley

Mon, 11.30am, Radio 4

A new series of the historical true crime programme begins with the story of Christiana Edmunds, AKA Brighton’s “Chocolate Cream Killer”, a Victorian spinster driven to murder by unrequited love. But is that what really happened? With the help of forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead and fellow historian Rosalind Crone, Worsley revisits this sensational case of strychnine-laced confectionery from a 21st-century feminist perspective. Ellen E Jones