" Edgar Lustgarten used to open his hugely popular True Crime BBC programme in the 1950s with the words ""Have you ever murdered anyone? Perhaps you'd rather not say"". Up to six million listeners tuned in every week to hear Lustgarten drily recount the details of major trials. It is probably fair to say that he invented the True Crime audio genre.

The Chiron True Crime series was recorded by Lustgarten in a London studio in Dolby quality in 1976. Lustgarten’s voice is austere but not without wit, gripping yet somehow addictive. The voice of a top Barrister presenting the facts of the case with the hangman's noose waiting silently in the shadows.

“The foreman porter approached what looked like an empty compartment, says Edgar Lustgarten, and opened the door on a slaughterhouse.

That a frightful murder had been committed there was no doubt at all. But could there be equal certainty about the murderer? The case against the accused rested largely on ‘identification’—a type of evidence that has led to several miscarriages of justice, and of which—as a result—juries have grown increasingly wary. Should the jury that tried Dickman have relied upon it? The verdict they reached was controversial, and has so remained. Edgar Lustgarten presents the trial so that you can form your own opinion—and ends by venturing an opinion of his own.”"