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Nanny accused of witchcraft released (1983)

Genre

News report

Report on the release of Scottish nanny Carole Compton in Italy after being accused of witchcraft. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Short story (1988)

aka: Casting the runes [Part 1 and 2]

M. R. James classic story has been adapted by Stephen Mulrine who has written fifty hours of radio drama, including serials for both ILR and the BBC. Set at Christmas time in the early 1900’s it tells an...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch (1988)

Genre

Drama

Dramatisation of the life of Mary Bateman who was an English criminal with self-proclaimed supernatural powers, known as the Yorkshire Witch, who was tried and executed for witchcraft during the early 19th...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Carole Compton trial in Italy (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the start of the trial in Livorno, Italy, of Carole Compton, a Scottish nanny accused of arson and witchcraft. Includes interview with Compton’s ex-lawyer, Lawrence Nesbitt. Female reporter not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Role of witchdoctors in Zimbabwe (1980)

Genre

News report; Interview

Peter Sharp reports back on the possible role of the country’s witchdoctors in Zimbabwe’s health service after Zimbabwe gained independence. Male studio reporter identified only as Richard ?.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Beyond belief (1985)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Part 3. Kieran Devaney presents a look at contemporary witchcraft, taking to self-styled Queen of the Witches, Patricia Crowther, and her disciple, Alan Miller, in Sheffield. Chris, proprietor of a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Satanist interview results in police raid (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview; Phone-in

John Alcock reports how the testimony of a self-confessed black witch on the LBC phone-in programme, Nightline resulted in a visit to the studios by police. Satanist Brian Leftwich claimed he knew...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio