Murder After Midnight (London Broadcasting Co.)
MARTIN FIDO is considered one of the world's leading authorities on the Ripper murders. A former visiting professor at Michigan State University, he has also taught at the University of Leeds and is the author of The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper, The Truth About Jack the Ripper (audiotape), The Murder Guide to London and The Chronicle of Crime, as well as The World of Sherlock Holmes, The World of Agatha Christie and a host of other books and talking tapes. With Paul Begg and Keith Skinner, he is co-author of the Jack the Ripper A-Z. Broadcasting and tour guiding both came about following the Ripper book. In the winter of 1987 Clive Bull,a Show Host for the London Broadcasting Company (LBC), ran the first three 'Murder After Midnight' programmes experimentally, and the series is running still. Fido was the host from 1987-2001.
This is a slight departure into reality, but after you listen to a few you will see why I had to post them. At first after listening to a few and wanting to post the collection I encountered the quandry of where to put it. After weighing news, history crime, murder and the such I realized that even though true the stories all boiled down to one thing, Mystery, so here it is in Whodunit for lack of a more appropriate group. Enjoy, I am, these are spellbinding and True.
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Cheers for this, Rick i am a big fan of Mr Fido, but this is new to me. the wonders of this marvellous site, eh. Keep up the great work my friend. dave from Down under
Oh boy did I love Martin Fido's Muder After Midnight!
These were on LBC Radio in (if memory serves) the mid to late 80s, and they were on at Random times in the early hours of Sunday morning! It was a bit of a nuisance because they could be on at anytime from 2am to 5am!
Incase I fell asleep, I used to have a double cassette deck that did auto reverse, back to back recordings! And with a couple of 90 minute cassettes, I could cover that period of time (with the best will in the world, I often dozed off!).
He also did about half a dozen, double cassette audiobooks - and the The Ripper one was excellent. I also remember a 3 hour assessment of the Manson Murders being very good. I've still got them all!
Its difficult to know exactly how accurate all his stories are. I've no doubt they're all based on a strong form of actual events, but I suspect he embellishes a lot, and his naturally dramatic readings add to the drama too!
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Outside of your Jacks, Yorkshire Rippers, Rillington Places etc, it's surprising how many I actually remember (at least once they get going I do)
Great thread.
These were on LBC Radio in (if memory serves) the mid to late 80s, and they were on at Random times in the early hours of Sunday morning! It was a bit of a nuisance because they could be on at anytime from 2am to 5am!
Incase I fell asleep, I used to have a double cassette deck that did auto reverse, back to back recordings! And with a couple of 90 minute cassettes, I could cover that period of time (with the best will in the world, I often dozed off!).
He also did about half a dozen, double cassette audiobooks - and the The Ripper one was excellent. I also remember a 3 hour assessment of the Manson Murders being very good. I've still got them all!
Its difficult to know exactly how accurate all his stories are. I've no doubt they're all based on a strong form of actual events, but I suspect he embellishes a lot, and his naturally dramatic readings add to the drama too!
I'm gonna enjoy listening to these!