by Doris Ker
Six classic cases in the story of British criminal investigation as we know it today.

Narrator Trader Faulkner
From January 1883 until January 1885 a series of explosions took place in London which were to mystify, then terrify, the British public. The police 'Dynamite Department', as it was popularly known, succeeded in tracing certain substances found at the scene of each bombing back to an American source. But it wasn't until the contents of a trunk belonging to one James Gilbert Cunningham, a Fenian agent, were examined that the breakthrough occurred.
This particular case brought the Special Branch of Scotland Yard into existence. With the voices of: ANTHONY JACKSON, STEVE HODSON, MICHAEL FAWKES, DAVID BRIERLEY, WILLIAM EEDLE, KEVIN FLOOD, HAYDN JONES, SHIRLEY DIXON, DAPHNE ROGERS, IRENE SUTCLIFFE and FRANK GRIMES
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)