Episode Twenty - Murder On A Winter's Day: The Killer and the Lord

Hallowed Histories

Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as the online screening of Clive Dunn's documentary about M.R. James last month. We're going to be bringing you more screenings in 2021, so keep an eye out on our website and on the podcasts for further developments. A lot of the M.R. James footage will soon be available through our Youtube channel for those who missed it, we'll get that up and running very soon.

In the meantime, we will still be bringing you our monthly tales of East Anglian lore and legend, and we're kicking off 2021 with a story of murder in the venerable grounds of Norfolk's Honingham Hall. The confrontation between the sociopathic Private George Smith and the distinguished diplomat Sir Eric Teichman was short and deadly, and yet what bought these two men, so utterly different to each other, to a bloody end?

The 'friendly invasion', that is to say the arrival of American troops in Britain was overwhelmingly that - friendly. The story we tell today was an absolute outlier, and a shock to both countries.

We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon.

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This episode was hosted by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard. The technical wizardry was performed by Stephen L. Parkes.