
Murder, Mystery and My Family
2018– · BBC One · 45 min · 5 seasons
S05E10 · Poff/Barrett
Fri, 9 July, 8:00 pm
The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?
About
Two of the UK's top criminal barristers, Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein, explore historical murders where the convicted went to the gallows pleading their innocence.
Investigating cases which bear all the hallmarks of a miscarriage of justice, they join forces with a living member of the convicted criminal's family and a variety of specialist experts to re-examine the crime, evidence and trial.
Episodes
- E01
Jacoby
Mon, 28 June· 45 minBarristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.
- E02
Smith
Tue, 29 June· 45 minBarristers Sasha and Jeremy reinvestigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.
- E03
Lee
Thu, 1 July· 45 minThe barristers explore the notorious case of ‘The Man They Could Not Hang' - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.
- E04
Yarham
Fri, 2 July· 45 minJeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.
- E05
Lefley
Sun, 4 July· 45 minSasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.
- E06
Fox
Mon, 5 July· 45 minJeremy and Sasha reinvestigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?
- E07
McLachlan
Tue, 6 July· 45 minBarristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.
- E08
Allen
Wed, 7 July· 45 minSasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.
- E09
Grime
Thu, 8 July· 45 minSasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.
- E10
Poff/Barrett
Fri, 9 July· 45 minThe barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?
Cast

Sasha Wass
Sasha Wass

Jeremy Dein
Jeremy Dein

Tony Hirst
Narrator