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Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London—can finally be solved. Were the boys murdered by their uncle King Richard III for the throne? Or was it a massive conspiracy to hide the truth?
Film Interviewees
- Philippa Langley
- Rob Rinder – Criminal Barrister
- Tracy Borman – Co-Curator, Historic Royal Palaces
- Nathalie Nijman – Dutch Research Group
- Matt Lewis – Historian & Chair of the Richard III Society
- Zoë Maula – Dutch Research Group
- Henrike Lähnemann – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- Ann Wroe – Author, Perkin
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SECRETS OF THE DEAD is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events.