Network

Title

Network

Genre

Fiction; Serial

TX Date

15 Mar 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:30:59

Description

Network. This week, a collection of short stories (only the first is included here in its entirety). The Maybrick Mystery, written by Leo Knowles, narrated by Stratford Johns and produced for Piccadilly Radio as part of their Murder by Gaslight series, is based on the real-life murder by American Florence Maybrick of her English husband James Maybrick in 1889 by arsenic. Followed by a few minutes of The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce, also from Piccadilly Radio. The third story is not included here. Female presenter not identified.

Contributors

Leo Knowles; Piccadilly Radio; Stratford Johns; Ambrose Bierce

Keywords

USA; UK; Homicide; Murderers; Murder trials; Imprisonment; Trials; Victorian period; Arsenic; Poisoning; Florence Maybrick; James Maybrick

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