Five programmes on major political trials of this century 4: A Question of Faith by GILES PLAYFAIR The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Ostensibly tried for armed robbery and murder, two obscure American-Italian anarchists were in fact the victims of a political witch-hunt in an anti-red scare in America during the 1920s. But because of this. Sacco and Vanzetti were to become the outstanding symbols of revolutionary martyrdom in the United States. Narrator GILES PLAYFAIR with ANTHONY HALL as SaCCO TREVOR MARTIN as Vanzetti and the voices of JUNE BARRIE. MALCOLM HAYES
LESLIE HERITAGE, PATRICK TULL PETER Tl'DDENHAM
Producer BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)