A Very British Murder
Royal Palace Curator and television presenter Lucy Worsley would be great company at any dinner party. She takes the normally dry BBC documentary genre to new levels with her learned, conspiratorial and sometimes downright daffy style of presenting what has up to now been traditionally stodgy television fare.
In this series of historical documentaries (she's done many, check them out) she takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in British history. While the descriptions can be gruesome at times, it's never sensational the way that modern news coverage often is.
This three-part series is a good introduction to work of Lucy Worsley. If you like this, check out Empire of the Tsars, which is her history of Tsarist Russia.