Murder, Mystery and My Family

Episode 1

Jacoby

44 mins

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.

Episode 2

Smith

44 mins

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.

Episode 3

Lee

44 mins

The barristers explore the notorious case of 'The Man They Could Not Hang' - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.

Episode 4

Yarham

44 mins

Jeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.

Episode 5

Lefley

44 mins

Sasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.

Episode 6

Fox

44 mins

Jeremy and Sasha re-investigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?

Episode 7

McLachlan

44 mins

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.

Episode 8

Allen

44 mins

Sasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.

Episode 9

Grime

44 mins

Sasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.

Episode 10

Poff/Barrett

44 mins

The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?

Episode 11

Devlin and Burns

44 mins

Jeremy and Sasha return to the case they reviewed in the 2nd episode of the first series. Edward Devlin's relative Lindsay has returned to London from Australia to investigate new leads that could lead to an official review of the case.

Episode 12

Stone

44 mins

1 year on from when Jeremy and Sasha looked into the 1937 murder of a women in Leighton Buzzard (S.2 Ep.5) they catch up with Mary and Rose who have continued to investigate the case against their uncle and found some new evidence.

Episode 13

Major

Sasha and Jeremy meet with Jill Brown to learn what has happened since they first looked into the case of her cousin Ethel Major (in S.2 Ep.10). Jill has continued to delve into the family history and met with a friend of Ethel's daughter.

Episode 14

Dickman

2 years on from when they looked at the conviction of a Newcastle bookmaker for a shooting on a train (S.1 Ep.4), Sasha and Jeremy meet up with his great-grandson Rowan to discover what happened when he met with crime writer Diane Janes.

Episode 15

Chesham

One year on from their re-examination of the case of an Essex mother hanged for poisoning her family (from S.2 Ep.8), Jeremy and Sasha meet with Roz and Steve who are campaigning to secure a full pardon for Sarah Chesham.

Episode 16

Maybrick

Sasha and Jeremy take another look at the case that they examined in the first episode of series four. A young American woman was executed in 1889 for killing her husband, a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker, with arsenic.

Episode 17

Waddingham

Jeremy and Sasha take another look at the case that they examined in the fifth episode of series 3. The owner of a Nottingham care home was accused of the poisoning by morphine of one of her residents in 1935.

Episode 18

Brown

43 mins

The barristers return to the case that featured in the ninth episode of series four, and which inspired the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Dorset housewife, Martha Brown was accused of murdering her young husband in 1856.

Episode 19

Staunton

43 mins

Jeremy and Sasha take another look at the complex case of murder by neglect that they examined in the sixth episode of series four. An auctioneer, his brother, sister-in-law and his mistress were accused of starving his wife to death.

Episode 20

Lowson

44 mins

Sasha and Jeremy return to look again at the case they examined in the fourth episode of series 4 - the brutal murder of a policeman at Butterknowle in County Durham in 1884. Three men who accused but only one was hung.