Crime may be the dark side of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, down through the ages, it has appropriated its rules and used what it wants by foul and unfair means.’Criminal offense Classics’ examines all manner of crimes and murders from days gone by. It cautiously recreates the entire crime through comprehensive and pains-taking study. The cases range from the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar towards the even more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her hubby Joshua in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.Your host each week, is Mr. Thomas Hyland – ‘connoisseur of criminal offense, student of violence, and teller of murders’ and played by Lou Merrill.