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The Saturday Play: Madeleine

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the early hours of the morning on 23 March 1857, warehouse clerk Emile L'Angelier staggered through the dark Glasgow streets towards his lodging house, doubled over in pain. By the next morning he was dead of arsenic poisoning. Within a few hours stacks of illicit love letters were discovered suggesting that the young man had been involved in a highly passionate secret affair - and Madeleine Smith, the upper-class daughter of a wealthy Glasgow businessman, was arrested for Emile's murder.

Contributors

Writer:
John Clifford.
Director:
Kate McAll
Young Madeleine:
Clare Grogan
Older Madeleine:
Stella Quilley
Emile:
Pascal Besson
Mr Smith:
Sean Barrett
Minnoch:
Sean Barrett
Defence:
Sean Barrett
Clerk:
John MacKay
Robert:
John MacKay
Curate:
John MacKay
Bessie:
Sally Cookson
Mary Jane:
Sally Cookson
Mother:
Carol Brannan
Miss Aitken:
Carol Brannan
Anne:
Carol Brannan
Prosecutor:
David Collins
Judge:
Paul Nicholson

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