THE PLAYBOY BUNNY MURDER

ITV1, 9pm

Marcel Theroux presents this gripping two-part documentary about how one violent death – of Eve Stratford, a Bunny Girl who worked at London’s Playboy nightclub, in 1975 – may be linked to other unsolved murders in the capital. He examines if one man might have been responsible not just for Stratford’s murder, but also that of schoolgirl Lynne Weedon (killed in 1975), young mother Elizabeth Parravicini (1977) and West End croupier Lynda Farrow (1979).

As Theroux says, with people ageing and memories fading, this might be the last chance to uncover whether there really was a serial killer on the loose in central London in the 1970s.

With the help of archive footage and interviews with former detectives, a criminologist and those who knew the victims, he digs into a story full of red herrings, outlandish claims and the possibility that a police officer was involved, but a clearer picture soon emerges. Some of what he unearths has striking parallels with how sex offenders such as Met Police officers Wayne Couzens and David Carrick could have been caught earlier. The details of the murders are harrowing, and explored further in the concluding part tomorrow. Veronica Lee ends, and a new run of The Infinite Monkey Cage begins on Radio 4 (see p38). Maggie AderinPocock, Chris Lintott and Pete Lawrence team up with Brian Cox and Robin Ince (plus Irish comic and amateur star-gazer Dara Ó Briain) to talk all things astronomical – and, weather permitting, see some interesting celestial bodies.

Eve Stratford (second from right) was murdered in 1975