PhD student Patrick Low will be appearing in an episode of BBC 1’s Murder, Mystery and My Family on Thursday 4th April 2019 at 9.15 am.
Patrick researches nineteenth-century executions in North East England, and his expertise was drawn on in this episode which features the execution of Michael Gilligan, hanged alongside William McHugh and Elizabeth Pearson at Durham Prison in 1875. Patrick meets the family, talks about the execution and gives details about the prisoners' final moments.