BBC Radio 5 Live – Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling, 39. The deadly love letters

This week, Laura looks into a 1922 murder case involving a married couple – Percy and Edith Thompson – and the man Edith was having an affair with, Freddy Bywaters. When Percy is stabbed to death by his wife's lover on a dark October evening, it doesn't take long for the public to exonerate Freddy – and blame Edith instead. But did Edith really play a role in her husband's murder? Or was she simply being punished for being a woman who lived outside of cultural norms?

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