On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.

We're still looking for Lucan.

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

I'm Alex von Tundselman.

This is The Lucan Obsession.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

In the 1950s, when the Pakistani poet and political prisoner Fez Ahmed Fez was released,

he had a very specific request.

He wanted the singer No Jahan to perform a poem he'd written behind bars. Muj Se A poem's Mejsa Peli Sih Mhabit, a poem about love and oppression, became one of the most popular songs of the era.

Fares's poetry was immortalized by singers like No Jahan and Iqbal Bano.

But after the 1977 military coup in Pakistan, performances were made. immortalized by singers like Nojahan and Iqbal Bano.

But after the 1977 military coup in Pakistan, performances of affairs were actively discouraged by the state.

General Zia al-Hak, a military dictator, was now in control.

Defiance of the law wasn't just met with prison.

You can now face the threat of public flogging

and even stoning to death. So Fares went into political exile, returning to Lahore occasionally,

but his daughter, Salimah Hashmi, remained in Pakistan throughout.

Welcome to Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service.

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