George Dent and Julie-Marie Strange, Trainspotters Extraordinaire A review of ‘Murder on the Victorian Railway‘ first shown 21 February 2013, BBC 2. To watch an earlier interview with Kate Colquhoun, the author of Mr Briggs’ Hat, click here. The body on the tracks; the carriage spoiled with blood; the missing watch; the clue of the hat. Murder! On the Railway! Not, in this case, an Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle mystery, but, the murder of a businessman, Thomas Briggs, on
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Shooting the Victorians – Kate Colquhoun
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBJjvbGukE[/youtube] “I think what is interesting to me is being able to communicate history in an extremely rigorous and scholarly way – never making stuff up, never leaving any stone unturned, never refusing to question what needs to be questioned – endlessly, in fact – but there is nothing wrong, in fact there is everything right in my mind, in being able to communicate that in the most compulsive and seductive way possible. To make history alive.” – Kate Colquhoun
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