Julian Fellowes Investigates - Ep. 4 The Case of the Croydon Poisonings

[@lauriewarner4848]

Just think, laying in on a Friday morning, coffee that the hubs brought to my bedside, an English mystery and J Fellows….pure happiness!

[@Hypnobunny1]

Love this Julian Fellows is wonderful his voice is very calming hope he does more stuff like this. Loved Stella Gonet and Jean Marsh remember her from upstairs downstairs fantastic actress x

[@MsPea]

Wow. Some pretty well-known actors involved in this. I recognized quite a few of them from other films or series. I've never heard of this series, but it's well-done--costumes, sets, actors, writing. I love period pieces like this. Thanks for posting.

[@Hypnobunny1]

I remember Jean Marsh in Upstairs Downstairs loved that show

[@annhinson5670]

Excellent! Kept me captivated all through. Are there really people that wicked? Yes, I think so.

[@bobbiecoles629]

I love Julian Fellows stories. His talents are endless. He has made good use of his time on earth. Thank you Mr. Fellows. Sincerely Bobbie from Silver Spring,Maryland.

[@Brembelia]

Julian Fellowes also made a stellar Prince Regent in The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews.

[@jonhohensee3258]

Talents are endless? He's terrible with the ukulele.

[@Hypnobunny1]

Think he played the prince regent in Sharp along side the yummy Sean Bean

[@reginamay1]

Agreed

[@vandalmeida.30.09]

What a beautiful n clear English pronunciation. Tks from Brazil!🇧🇷☘🌾🌱

[@alexandradane3672]

Julian Fellowes was able to command quite a stellar cast!

[@thepearlatelier4256]

Thank you for this. I love british shows. Simply marvellous.

[@HoneyHush3425]

Me too...

[@tammiep9628]

I started watching, and I’m all excited. But then decided to stop and go purchase the whole series. That is just what I did. Now I cannot wait to get it so I can begin watching, this time the whole series. I am like that, that’s why I love KZbin. I have purchased more DVDs from watching KZbin than from anywhere else. Thanks KZbin for letting me see what’s out there.

[@Sherirose1]

I am so addicted to this voice and these programmes. Haven't found these earlier. I'm looking g forward to the rest.

[@cestmoikim6514]

Where is Ms. Marple when we need her? Or Poirot, Foyle, Morse/Endeavour, Inspector Lewis, the Barnaby's, Rosemary&Thyme?

[@animallover4955]

Sherlock

[@victoriasaper1625]

@ c’est moi, No bring on the best Jane Tennison

[@pennyfulton3418]

....But every one of those is famous for solving the case, only after everyone has already been killed . So I fail to see the point, when Julian fellows has done the same job !

[@shilohabaddon]

Vera

[@maritzaagosto1793]

This ought to be interesting 🤔 .

[@cassieoz1702]

Such a collection of (now) famous actors

[@kennethbooker4955]

Another British film good cast

[@simonf8902]

As a Doctor I think degeneration of the heart due to sun is brilliant. I must look into this.

[@neilreynolds3858]

Don't forget that it only happens when fishing.

[@jillygirl2024]

Julian Fellowes is a favorite - whether as a writer, host, actor, producer - he always produces quality work

[@cinnie1818]

Thank you as always just love your stories and your wonderful voice.

[@primadonna4535]

I love the historical ones - Proves evil is not a modern thing

[@harrietlyall1991]

Brilliant. What a master story teller Julian Fellowes is, and what a chilling tale of lives ruined and ended.

[@WildWestGal]

Julian Fellowes is a master story writer, and a brilliant 'host'!!!

[@annashaw4329]

Thanks for sharing.....More episodes please!

[@alicehudson8079]

Thank you for these, they are very good. I like Julian Fellowes' voice.

[@Ian_Jules]

0:43 Jean Marsh (original Upstairs, Downstairs). And 6:20, a very young Thomas Brodie-Sangster. I haven't seen these in several years. Interesting to see many other familiar faces in the cast.

[@gloriamostyn1861]

Fellowes has quite a different approach to mystery storytelling. I quite enjoyed Julian Fellowes Investigates - Ep. 4 The Case of the Croydon Poisonings

[@judikingsman6132]

Excellent...it's British, that's why. 💙

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Where the hell is Poirot when you need him?

[@lechat8533]

But he at least sent his valid... :)

[@didarden]

Bahahahaha

[@terriaustill2211]

Lol

[@sheilagravely5621]

I wonder if the old bat did it?

[@aubgriss2009]

Or Mrs. Marple. She would have solved it.

[@sandrabradstreet]

What a gem! Thank you so much for this!

[@leanneblake4248]

I saw all these Episodes about 15 -20 yrs ago on Australian TV. Truly Wonderful .Thank you & Cheers.

[@myname7056]

Leanne Blake I have the DVDs.

[@scottgeorge4268]

British five-part docudrama series produced by Touchpaper Television (part of the RDF Media Group), which premièred on BBC One on 16 October 2004.

[@SM-gl8yo]

Never heard of this before. Thanks so much! Very enjoyable.

[@CoxJoxSox]

I think Julian Fellowes did it - he seems to be everywhere!

[@duyagetme]

:-)

[@elainepayne7047]

Like Stephen Fry!

[@DorothyGTyas]

*Hahaha-haha!* ☜💀

[@luvsupreme]

🤣🤣😭

[@sharonhennessy8868]

Funny Haaaa Haaaaaaaaaa!!!

[@nlcrme]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Simply fantastic. You can never go wrong with Julian Fellows.

[@patrickphair488]

All that & "The House Of Elliott" too Wonderful Thank you

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Wow the actors in these recreations are tops!

[@SleutherStrode]

proper working actors is why, not amateurs

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

Sarah Barber The Narrator Julian Fellowes is the creator/writer/director of Downton Abbey amongst other things. He knows these societies and their quirks because he was raised that way as he is from an aristocratic family.His full name and title and occupation is as follows... Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Robyn Jones Thanks for the info on the narrator\creator of the program. I wonder then if he's related to Lord Kitchener? What I meant by my original comment is that I was surprised surprised to see such high caliber actors in the re-creations. For an American it would be like seeing James Spader, Paul Giamatti, and Shirley MacLaine on Unsolved Mysteries or America's Most Wanted re-creations on a show. It's just not done in American TV but I do see your point that Julian Fellowes is a high profile figure socially, culturally and in the film industry and therefore was obviously able to draw top actors for these parts. I just can't think of anyone in America being able to put quality actors on a TV show about historic crimes. Still of all the Crime programs I've seen, whether American, British or Australian, I've never seen bankable professional working actors do the crime re-creations and I was just totally caught off guard.

[@inkyguy]

Evan AB, British actors don’t have a “star system” and don’t get paid ridiculous sums of money to do film and television in Britain. They go to Hollywood for that. They remain yeoman actors in which any part is still a job worth doing well. It’s an entirely different mindset than in the states which is obsessed with celebrity and fame.

[@joemifsud981]

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 What does "DL" mean?

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Interesting and well-presented. Thanks!

[@terriaustill2211]

Refreshing, LOVED having narrator in the scenes. Wish this was more commonly done!

[@myrakeefer5977]

My first time watching this love it.i am hooked

[@kimquinn7728]

The man who played the son at the dying mothers bedside, I think he played Robert Ferris in Sense and Sensibility. A brother of Hugh Grant's character. Was so comical. Would anyone else know?

[@bluegypsy71]

Yes...that’s him...he did a good job of playing a foppish lazy gossiping Robert Ferris👍😅

[@acousticsong-guitarco964]

Kim Quinn Yep, that’s him

[@ctobias961]

Yes he played Robert Ferris! He was also the brother-in-law of Emma Thompson (Eleanor Dashwood) at the time ☺️

[@fermio1]

Excellent Julian Fellowes reconstruction. Need more of them.

[@muffin6369]

The great Jean Marsh from the original Upstairs Downstairs.

[@fanyt1894]

I live on this road and it has not changed since then....

[@moviemonster2083]

It was NOT Tom! It was Grace. Tom couldn't even succeed at being an entertainer in swinging London of the time, he could not pull this off. Grace was the only one with the real motive and opportunity and it's been established since then that other people around her (HER, not Tom) died under suspicious circumstances, including two daughters. She was a psychopath and a narcissist. I find these counter-factual accounts, no matter how entertaining, to be ill-advised. They make people question the validity of justice. These accounts always try to find everyone else guilty, or at least potentially so, instead of the most obvious and let's face it, most of the time, they ARE the real guilty party. This is why people always want to revisit pregnant-wife killer cases and free these evil people because 'maybe' he's innocent! Grace was let off. She used the prejudices of the time and her status as a bourgeoise to get away with triple-murder. Hanging the crime on Tom seems to be not only unjust, but cruel. Watch the episode about the case from a podcast called 'They Got Away With Murder', and perhaps you'll see what I mean.

[@charlenelaguer7072]

Great story and very well played in the drama and execution of the murders!!!!! Thanks for sharing :)

[@user-onyoutube868]

Julian Fellowes narrating in the midst of the acting reminds me of Rod Serling in some of The Twilight Zone episodes.

[@divaden47]

I was thinking the same thing! Shades of Alfred Hitchcock too!

[@eatiegourmet1015]

@@divaden47 Especially the opening credits where the sketch of Fellowes' silhouette is shown -- directly from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But Fellowes appears more svelte in the film than the image in the opening portrays.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@Cordoba82]

As intelligently and fact-based as the story was presented, Mr. Fellowes forgot a very important detail: Grace and her husband had two children that died under very mysterious circumstances BEFORE all this killing around started. And worth to point that Tom was not around when those two murders happened. Grace and her family were living in Africa at that time.

[@jaymesguy239]

And they don't say that Tom was nowhere near their house for at least a week before the death of Grace's husband and that he simply could not have been the one to poison the beer. On the other hand, Grace was in and out of everyone's house all the time and including her own kitchen where the poisonous food was being prepared.

[@patstokes7040]

Death before antibiotic was really common. 20 million had die just 10 years prior to these murders form flue. Death of children was common place and many thing we don't even think of killed you. Even drinking water was risky as most water was contaminated. No, the death of children was not from murder.

[@brendamiller8140]

Sorry I saw this it is a very good show. 💙💚🤗⭐️

[@globalheart]

I think Tom too..how many times he tried to place suspicion on others. And..he probably thought he'd be off to the US.. What sort of a Sydney was this guy!?!

[@dubliners0999]

I hear the book, "The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise: the Croydon Poisoning Mystery" comes to a difficult conclusion about who the murderer was...

[@annasteele9464]

Thank you for shearing this.

[@EndisNi]

You could make a decent argument for the culprit being Margaret. Homesick, bored, desperate, clever, and let's not forget that poison is traditionally a woman's weapon. Margaret didn't know about Aunt Gwen, and had access to the same shed as Tom. Edmund was a useful practice run, Vera was a financial shot in the arm, and then of course with Violet gone she got her happy ending.

[@aubgriss2009]

But as she said, she liked Vera. I was thinking it was Tom the entire time, but maybe that 's because of the way they acted it out.

[@johannaholmgren8088]

@@aubgriss2009 Tom seems likely but Grace alone could have access to Edmund. And only she and her children were affected by her husband's complete lack of care when it came to the finances. Plus she was very reluctant to marry the doctor, in spite of being so hard up for money. She preferred to stay single and run her own life. Those 2 daughters of hers dying "mysteriously" as well are suspicious ,...

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Why would she kill Edmund? and how would she poison him? she had no opportunity. Tom had no opportunity either or reason, neither stood to gain anything from his death. Only Grace had motive and opportunity, Edmund had financially ruined her. She knew the doctor was in love with her and would raise no suspicions. With Vera and her mother gone she gained everything. Plus 2 of Grace's children had died under suspicious circumstances before they moved to Croydon, no body but Grace could have had a hand in that.

[@sharmainhayward927]

Thanks I needed something to watch, love it would love to see the full series.😊

[@misssparky5574]

Watch the channel, ' they got away with murder', the writer and producer mark john McGuire is a brilliant narrator and never appears on the screen.

[@The-Cute-One]

Vera is my favourite British actress... Love everything she's in.

[@xxfayerocksxx]

One of my favourites too absolutely love her Amanda Root is incredible 🤗🥰❤💕

[@The-Cute-One]

@@xxfayerocksxx she's the most versatile woman's character. My favorite may be Persuasion. Or Forsythe Saga. Or etc... Lol😊

[@xxfayerocksxx]

@@The-Cute-One she is yeah I love both of them as well lol 🤗 she's done so many good things to choose from The Fortsyte Saga is fantastic and her as Winifred is phenomenal and she's Anne Elliot for me no one else can do it though I do love the 2007 version as Stella Gonet is in it and you can see the Likeness between her and Amanda and why they are playing sisters here but I love her in those two this and a lot of other things she's done her call the midwife episode is amazing I recommend it if you haven't seen her in that and she was terrific in Anna Karenina with Helen McCrory too 🥰❤💞💕💕 xxxx

[@The-Cute-One]

@@xxfayerocksxx thank you you are a kindred spirit 😊

[@xxfayerocksxx]

@@The-Cute-One @Jennifer Tierinni it's my pleasure that means a lot thank you for saying it also she was in something called The Robinsons with Hugh Bonneville which is on here and also her episode of Call The Midwife is series 9 episode 2 so you aren't looking for a long time to find it and there was another drama she did called the impressionists that she was in I'd recommend that too 🤗🥰❤💕

[@susannaude8514]

Excellent thank you!!

[@loonylinda]

i really like julian fellowes...and i enjoyed that thanks

[@moxyoonyx2713]

Absolutely chilling.

[@pw529]

I LIKE THIS VERY MUCH WILL LOOK FOR MORE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[@77overland]

Good stuff! more please..

[@elizabethcherokee248]

Please find more of these.

[@lindamorris9120]

Thank you so much. Love this!

[@cherylbutcher7182]

The amazing Mr Fellows!

[@debranielsen2002]

Starting a car is too violent an exercise for a woman??? It’s a wonder they were allowed to walk across the street. 🧐

[@johng4093]

The old hand cranked ones could be dangerous.

[@williambehan4546]

Fantastic show.

[@nemo1606]

Most enjoyable. Thank you.

[@TheAkelei]

Ah - there's Jean Marsh aka "Rose" from Eaton Place. This has been highly entertaining. It would have been interesting, though, to learn about Tom's career overseas. Having the narrator (J. Fellowes who did "Downton Abbey, btw) felt a bit weird....

[@reneetubeaddict9757]

It was Grace

[@Lakeslover1]

This was excellent !

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

But Tom couldn't have killed the children of Grace. Only Grace had the opportunity to do that.

[@sritamachatterjee7802]

Narrative Fiction! I can’t think of any better way of presentation! 🎩 off !

[@janetpendlebury6808]

It is not fiction.

[@margarettaft7362]

Kids forbidden to go in the shed b cause of the “ dangerous things”. But the doors left wide open. How about a cheap padlock?

[@mariellouise1]

Wow! That was great! 👏💙👏

[@KnottyCeltic]

This is like a cross between "Mysterious Affair at Styles" and "How does your Garden Grow?".

[@grindupBaker]

At 3:09 he had to wait for the inquest to end & the verdict before telling us else the coroner would have shouted "order ! order !" and had him arrested.

[@cyndywaskelisthecrowscall]

The family was attractive AND good-looking!

[@jonhohensee3258]

I caught that too.

[@Brembelia]

Isn't Jean Marsh a treasure? Loved Upstairs Downstairs!!

[@ebybeehoney]

These are interesting and well done!

[@paullewis2413]

“Today, one might hesitate to describe Croydon as the acme of fashion”. I couldn’t stop laughing. Today one might describe Croydon as a trashed dump 😊

[@lesleyanderson5697]

wonderful. would like to see the series. thank you.

[@simonf8902]

Arsenical poisoning must be slow and methodical and planned. Increasing doses are given with gastrointestinal symptoms only. Finally an extra dose is given to bring on death. Arsenic was procurable in the 1920s. Fortunately not know.

[@didarden]

Watchin again. Thank you

[@sheilagravely5621]

Didn't the doctor play Hercule Poirots man servent?? I think I recognize him

[@cathrynhesketh5703]

My god.you are so observant.it is him.

[@maritzaagosto1793]

He also appeared on a couple of episodes of the Midsomer Murders as well ... damn good actor .

[@paulmarkwick2315]

Not only are there inaccuracies in the way things happened ie the brother Tom did not need money, he had savings of £2 or 3,000 there are also other facts about Grace that are left out. Two of her children died under suspicious circumstances as did an elderly woman who lodged with her and Edmund. There were reports of how she would call out the Dr for her children and when they were found to have nothing wrong then often they would 'develop' illnesses. As well as her being financially motivated it is thought quite strongly that she was suffering from Munchausen's by Proxy. Julian fellows can't resist the soap angle and plays up things that didn't exist or leaves out things that did to suit his own theory. Please check other more factual accounts of this case!

[@splinterbyrd]

There's alot of innuendo about this case and not alot of hard facts. You're right Julian Fellowes doesn't know what he's talking about, and how this talentless nonentity managed to rise without a trace to the House of Lords I can't imagine; perhaps someone thought he would be aesthetically pleasing. The biographers of the pathologist Bernard Spilsbury, who carried out the post-mortems, writing 20y later say "It does not appear any of them was in need of money, and no other motive for the crimes was openly suggested.....[but] Certain points are clear. There was much method in this madness, there was only one poisoner, and he or she was well acquainted with the habits of the Duff and Sydney households."

[@eleanortalbot1316]

Agreed; it's nonsense. Obviously Grace did it. She had means, motive and opportunity. Mark John Maguire does an excellent feature on this case on his channel, 'They Got Away With Murder'. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqeYh4CsrMeEd6s

[@nottmjas]

​@@eleanortalbot1316thanks for that link, which presents a far more credible narrative than this, which is admittedly entertaining.

[@organicintelligence3137]

Well done.

[@jajones-ford2226]

Very enjoyable video

[@brennalarosa]

Augh! I want to see the rest of the series!

[@ross5554]

Brenna Beattie Me too. but I couldnt find it anywhere.... has anybody?

[@danasmooth5818]

Brenna Beattie I think the series was on Netflix at one time. Perhaps it still is.

[@danasmooth5818]

Poor Grace and Vera. But whatever came of Tom in the US?

[@brennalarosa]

Dana Smooth nope, no longer on Netflix

[@jeffking6286]

There are 5 total but only in Russian

[@anastasia10017]

anyone notice that grace just hangs up the phone on people everytime ?

[@inkyguy]

anastasia46, that’s true of everyone on television. If you pay close attention, on television no one ever says good-bye to end a call; they just hang up.

[@joemifsud981]

@@inkyguy Could it be because of no one on the other end saying goodbye because of no one on the other end of saying goodbye to?

[@inkyguy]

@ladywharton , I have never noticed that. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one.

[@kathyhicswa6666]

It is interesting that everyone has seizures before they die. The diagnoses are so bizarre. The explanations were taken at face value. Doctors were seen as infallible.

[@aubgriss2009]

They still are! Ridiculous.

[@eatiegourmet1015]

To my mother's generation, Doctors were God-like. (RIP Mom 1928-1998)

[@rajnasarda]

Tku for uploading. Grt cast. I can't find anymore of these ):

[@barbaramahoney2468]

More I want more please please. Enjoyed this alot. Thanks.

[@mfjdv2020]

Barbara Mahoney: It's very strange that this is the only episode available right now. This is one of a series of 6 unsolved murders (or maybe more) narrated by Julian Fellowes. I've seen them all on the tube, but all the others have been taken off. They are all really excellent, especially the first one, about Florence Bravo. It might be worth while trying to find the box set on DVD if the copyright fiends are so set on taking this series down.

[@maggiesmith2600]

I've seen some of these people before. The actor who plays Tom was Hugh Grant's brother in Sense and Sensibility, and the little boy was Liam Neeson's stepson in Love Actually and was recently in Wolf Hall.

[@lorriball2628]

And the wonderful Jean Marsh from Upstairs/Downstairs

[@britamagnusson5407]

He was Paul McCartney in another film too! I can't remember the name.

[@Skyebright1]

@@britamagnusson5407nowhere boy

[@Skyebright1]

@@britamagnusson5407nowhere boy

[@Skyebright1]

Thomas Sangster ;)

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

The Narrator Julian Fellowes is the creator/writer/director of Downton Abbey amongst other things. He knows these societies and their quirks because he was raised that way as he is from an aristocratic family.His full name and title and occupation is as follows... Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords

[@maxinejacobson4006]

Robyn Jones b

[@sarahcousins2903]

He was also the neighbor in The Monarch Of The Glen...he was wonderful...

[@johannaholmgren8088]

Any relation to Lord Kitchener?

[@carolannemckenzie3849]

His wife is the great grand niece of the 1st Earl Kitchener

[@HoneyHush3425]

Anyone here from the USA? I've been looking for things to watch.

[@kgraham5820]

Don't know if you're still looking for things to watch but in the past few months I've ran across some absolutely BRILLIANT British mysteries. Look up Mrs. Marple, Poirot, Inspector Wexford or anything else from Ruth Rendell. Also Midsomer Murders and the Snoop Sisters! Some are long but well worth the watch! Hours of entertainment!!

[@HoneyHush3425]

@@kgraham5820 thank you. I will check it out.

[@HoneyHush3425]

@@kgraham5820 Amazing British Crime Drama channel is good so far, check it out.

[@rainwalker2254]

Can the housekeeper look any more suspicious? It's like over the top.

[@williamwoody7607]

Rain Walker it’s called a red herring.

[@sampuatisamuel9785]

Not the housekeeper, she and the car got sick after eating the soup

[@solowilliams3786]

Didn’t like the ending. I wanted justice ... thanks very much for sharing

[@winonamassingill7895]

I just love ❤️ the film 🎞 already because of the music 🎼.

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

Thank you

[@Mrrossj01]

You missed the death of Grace’s two children and the animals poisoned for sport around her home in Nigeria. Grace is the one. She was a psychopath.

[@nottmjas]

Child x 2: she had two daughters die in questionable circumstances

[@maire1889]

Mark John Maquire of They got away with Murder channel tells it best according to him it was Grace his videos are brilliant

[@paulmarkwick2315]

I totally agree. Much more factually based series. Less of the 'posh soap' about it!

[@jocarruthers5957]

Yes, I agree. Every one of his presentations is brilliant 🌟

[@amandabell8827]

Many thanks x

[@colinglass1342]

This sounds like a plot from an AGATHA CHRISTIE NOVEL Curious

[@dorielle62]

So this case remained unsolved ....Pity

[@thedativecase9733]

I think it is the unsolved murders that tend to intrigue us the most. At least that's what I find.

[@johannaholmgren8088]

I'm not sure it is unsolved in that sense. The police weren't able to bring the person to justice. But it seems people knew who did it. Grace is the obvious culprit for lots of reasons. Tom is highly unlikely, again for lots of reasons.

[@greenman6141]

Aha! I thought that was Thomas Brodie Sangster again. That young man pops up everywhere. He's always good as well.

[@foofy3406]

where are the other episodes? this is amazing!