Murder on the Victorian Railway
Thu Feb 21, 9-10pm, BBC2
The details are compelling, but wider issues are only sketchily addressed and with no great insight: the expanding railway network was a cause of excitement and fear; the popular press was booming; the wealth divide was gigantic. Who knew? But at least the parade of unknowns playing parts including the police inspector, the cabbie and the prostitute avoid the worst excesses of hammy silliness all too common in such films. ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whicher’ covered similar ground to greater effect (and, in fairness, on a far bigger budget), but this is still a sound if inessential slice of the capital’s social history.
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