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Serial Killers - The Women Who Write Crime Fiction

imagine...,Autumn 2016

 Alan Yentob explores the enthralling world of female crime fiction in the company of some of its best-selling authors, including Patricia Cornwell, Val McDermid and Paula Hawkins - the newcomer whose The Girl on the Train was the breakout hit of 2015. While these writers stand on the shoulders of giants such as Christie, Highsmith, Rendell and PD James, their dark imaginings are more likely to have been nurtured at newsroom crime desks, in mortuaries, piecing bones of murder victims back together and in the bedrooms of modern marriages, where dark thrillers are sparked not by strangers in alleyways but by anxieties and paranoia much closer to home. Why are we so willing to be scared out of our wits, and why are women in particular so attracted to the thrills and comforts of crime fiction?

Credits

Role	Contributor
Presenter	Alan Yentob
Participant	Patricia Cornwell
Participant	Val McDermid
Participant	Paula Hawkins
Series Editor	Alan Yentob
Executive Producer	Tanya Hudson
Producer	Colette Camden
Director	Colette Camden

Broadcasts

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  Tue 29 Nov 201622:45

  BBC ONE EXCEPT YORKS & LINCS, NORTHERN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND HD, WALES,WALES HD
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  Tue 29 Nov 201623:10

  BBC ONE WALES, WALES HD ONLY
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  Tue 29 Nov 201623:40

  BBC ONE NORTHERN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND HD ONLY