

Encore: Charles Manson, Part One
29/12/2025 | 49 mins.
We’re back in the MTW archives today for the first of our Charles Manson two-parter.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]

Encore: The Missing Mona Lisa
22/12/2025 | 42 mins.
We’re travelling back through the MTW archives to bring you Iain’s episode about the OTHER Louvre heist. Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]

99. The Heineken Kidnapping
15/12/2025 | 45 mins.
Get ready for Iain’s distinctly non-Chrismassy Christmas episode. This week, we’re looking at the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]

98. The Dandelion Poisoner
08/12/2025 | 37 mins.
The infamous tale of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a 20th-century solicitor accused of murdering not only a professional rival – but also… his own wife.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected] of help and support with suicide and feelings of despair are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

97. The Eiffel Tower Conman
01/12/2025 | 47 mins.
Laura looks at the life of Victor Lustig, an ambitious 1920s conman who ‘sold’ both the Eiffel Tower and Tower Bridge to gullible businessmen. Plus, he built a fake ‘money printing machine’ AND he swindled $5,000 from history’s most notorious gangster, Al Capone.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]



Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling