Episodes (10)
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Ep 1
Sir Roger Casement
1960-07-08•N/A
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
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Ep 2
The Baccarat Scandal
1960-07-15•N/A
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
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Ep 3
Admiral Byng
1960-07-22•N/A
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
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Ep 4
Spencer Cowper
1960-07-29•N/A
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
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Ep 5
Oscar Wilde
1960-08-05•N/A
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
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Ep 6
The Dilke Case
1960-08-12•N/A
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
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Ep 7
The Tichborne Case
1960-08-19•N/A
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
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Ep 8
W.T. Stead
1960-08-26•N/A
A newspaperman arranges for himself to be arrested on a morals charge so that he can use the witness-box to expose the white slave traffic.
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Ep 9
Governor Wall
1960-09-02•N/A
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
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Ep 10
Horatio Bottomley, MP
1960-09-09•N/A
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.