True Crime 1599

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For the last decade, True Crime has become ubiquitous on television and podcasts. Yet despite its current popularity, it's not a new phenomenon. In this programme, author Charles Nicholl take us back to a time before podcasts, TV, pulp magazines, even Penny Dreadfuls - all the way to the English stage 400 years ago when, for the first time, playhouses were putting contemporary news onstage.