It’s a Lucy Worsley weekend! | Blog

Do you love Lucy (i.e. Worsley)? Tune in this Sunday, December 15th for a mini-marathon of Lucy Worsley programming on WTIU.

Lucy Worsley’s Secrets of the Royal Palace
3 p.m

Join the beloved royal historian on an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. Lucy takes viewers behind the velvet ropes to the most secret locations of each building, from the forbidding Tower of London to the magnificent Hampton Court to the treasure-filled Kensington Palace.

Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
4:30 p.m

Lucy Worsley explores the mystery of Agatha Christie and applies her historian’s investigative skills to the queen of crime. She discovers a complex woman whose life and work reflect the upheavals of the 20th century.

Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and detective
6:30 p.m

Lucy uncovers the origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s early life as a medical student in Edinburgh and the author’s growing disillusionment with his detective.

Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and fiction
8 p.m

Lucy reveals Doyle’s desire to distance himself from Sherlock Holmes after the character’s apparent death at Reichenbach Falls, and how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story.