Alice Levine

Our senior producers were Joe Sykes and Dasha Lissitzina.

Executive producers for Audible were Theodora Leloudis and Estelle Doyle.

I'm Alice Levine.

And I'm Matt Ford.

And this is British Scandal, an Audible original.

So Matt, in summary, we've met Dr Crippen, found a corpse, followed him and his typist over the Atlantic, heard him deny murdering his wife, and then he got hanged.

What have you learnt?

And are you an all-time stan of Inspector Dew?

A shining star in the force.

But telling the story, I think you will agree, opened up a lot of questions, not a straightforward one.

One of them being, are we 100% sure that Crippen actually did it?

Was Du right?

So I thought we could enlist an expert who knows this story probably better than anyone else in the whole world.

We're speaking to historian and author Hallie Rubenhold after this.

So I have to ask, what got you interested in the Crippen case in the first place?

And what do you think it tells us about wider society, that rewriting of the narrative and the eagerness of people to accept it?

To move on from who's writing the narrative, it's also interesting to look at whose point of view we're looking at these stories from.

Your area of interest is the women in these stories.

Why are the victims of murders always such a minor part in the narrative?

I have to say, we've done it.