Dr Crippen & Mr Christie: Hallie Rubenhold & Kate Summerscale

Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen, and The Peepshow: the Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Hallie Rubenhold & Kate Summerscale in conversation with Christopher de Bellaigue

Two outwardly respectable men who invade and mutilate the female body; two of our most brilliant social historians, the one exposing Edwardian aspiration, the other picking her way through the human detritus of post-war London; a single session that unflinchingly holds a mirror to us all.

Dr Crippen and Reg Christie - names to chill the soul - lead us to a cast of accomplices, culpable bystanders, dupes and sleuths, and to the all too human, all too neglected victims. Meet those ‘who perpetually play with the truth, who trim it, conceal it,’ and the societies that watch, shocked and titillated, as the horror unfolds.