Elusive radio programme

[mpriestnall]

Ozzy, thanks for the info.

Michell Raper is a name that escaped me although he mentioned all over the shot eg:

The Mammoth Book of the Jack the Ripper - Maxim Jakubowski

Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Casebook - Richard Whittington-Egan

Jack the Ripper - An Encyclopedia - John J Eddleston

[Ozzy]

When Genome first went online, which wikipedia tells me was 2014, I told Richard about it as I knew of this elusive radio show then. I can't recall exactly but I think I might of pointed out The Other Victorians episode to him at the time.

It would be nice to hear. I have/had a couple of episodes in The Other Victorians series on mp3. But not the Ripper episode. Not sure if I still have them. I haven't seen them around recently. By which I mean about the last 10-15 years.

Genome has changed and been added to since 2014 and I know when it first went onliine it didn't go into regional programming much, of which Richard's program could be.

By the way, the script for Who Was Jack the Ripper? by Michell Raper was published (Casebook info page link below) in 400 copies by The Tabaret Press in 1974. I wonder if anybody has a copy? Paul Begg? Stewart Evans?

https://www.casebook.org/ripper_medi...ion/raper.html

[mpriestnall]

The episode from The Other Victorians series about the murders is called, "Who Was Jack The Ripper?".

It was broadcast on Thursday 1st June 1972 at 8pm.

Episode info suggests it focuses on the Royal cover up angle...

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/18e81aee...0f2a65167b137a


"The series of gruesome murders committed by an unidentified psychopath in 1888 is perhaps the most notorious crime in British legal history. Among its most sensational features was the persistent rumour that the murderer was a highly placed aristocrat shielded by the police: and recently, and most sensationally of all. that he was the Duke of Clarence. eldest son of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII , and therefore eventual heir to the English throne. When this unhappy Prince died in 1892 there was a well-orchestrated outpouring of grief: Hope of a people's heart - your promised king - and mine, .wrote Alfred Austin. But could he really have been Jack the Ripper?"

Thanks for that!

I wonder if this was the broadcast Richard in the OP remembers hearing. Or maybe not? I pm'd Richard to ask for his response about this find...

[Curious Cat]

The episode from The Other Victorians series about the murders is called, "Who Was Jack The Ripper?".

It was broadcast on Thursday 1st June 1972 at 8pm.

Episode info suggests it focuses on the Royal cover up angle...

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/18e81aee...0f2a65167b137a


"The series of gruesome murders committed by an unidentified psychopath in 1888 is perhaps the most notorious crime in British legal history. Among its most sensational features was the persistent rumour that the murderer was a highly placed aristocrat shielded by the police: and recently, and most sensationally of all. that he was the Duke of Clarence. eldest son of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII , and therefore eventual heir to the English throne. When this unhappy Prince died in 1892 there was a well-orchestrated outpouring of grief: Hope of a people's heart - your promised king - and mine, .wrote Alfred Austin. But could he really have been Jack the Ripper?"

[mpriestnall]

Links above don't seem to work but the dates should be good!

"The Other Victorians" -A ten-part series examining the hidden and darker aspects of Victorian life.

Sounds feasible that a JTR episode could be a part of this series n'est pas?

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_fourfm/1972-06-15

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_fourfm/1972-06-08

[mpriestnall]

Links above don't seem to work but the dates should be good!

[mpriestnall]

I wonder if it was part of the "The Other Victorians" series ???

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedule...rfm/1972-06-08

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_fourfm/1972-06-15

[mpriestnall]

Hi .
I am still working on it.. LOL
Regards Richard.

Hi Richard

Radio Times listings now digitized here "Explore Radio Times 1923-2009" FWIW!

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

[richardnunweek]

Hi .
I am still working on it.. LOL
Regards Richard.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Come on Nunweek, what happened? Some of us need to sleep tonight!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Actually Al I was just reading through this thread and it wasn’t until I noted the post by Bob Hinton that I realised that it was from 10 years ago. So you can see why I’m Herlock Sholmes and not Sherlock Holmes

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

10 years on and still no update on the mystery programme? What a cliffhanger!

[Sam Flynn]

... I've actually forgotten my memory.

[Robert]

Could be, GM. I remember getting things wrong....at least, I seem to remember....

[The Grave Maurice]

...I'm not sure my memory isn't playing tricks on me....

After a certain age, I think we should all stop relying on our memories. We nearly always get it wrong.