Alice Levine

If you could correct one misconception, of which I imagine there are many, about the Crippen case, what would it be?

And you won't be surprised to hear that this is a theme of almost all British scandals, actually.

Really?

It just comes up over and over again, this sort of attempt to villainise the women at the centre of these stories who clearly have been victimised.

Oh, yeah, there's lots of rotten ones, for goodness sake, Hallie.

That is just a schoolboy error.

Really?

It feels like the Crippen case was very new age compared to something like Jack the Ripper, which considering it's only 20 years later is a huge leap.

So international manhunt, new tech, forensics.

Did this sort of signal the arrival of modern policing?

And do you think that the public had already decided Crippen was guilty before the trial started?

So why do you think it is that as the years go on, we forget the grisliness of these murders and cases like Crippen and it becomes so much more titillating?

Like on British Scandal, we don't really cover murders, but we do cover murders from 100 years ago.

That's exactly what the perfect criminal would say.

Or defend you.

For money?

You've got all the answers, haven't you, Hallie?

This is very soft.

Thank you so much for talking to us about this.

It's completely fascinating and it's been brilliant to have you on.