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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Last Witch

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Christopher Russell
with Sylvia Coleridge as Jane Wenham
'You talk of haste when proofs of Mother Wenham's sorcery go back 20 years and more? Have you not heard how poor Susan Aylott's baby died, how Richard Harvey's wife died, how the witch's own husbands both died? Must Anne Thorne die too before you will act?'
The play, set in 1712, deals with the last trial for witchcraft in England. is based on fact.

Contributors

Writer:
Christopher Russell
Director:
Gerry Jones
James Gardiner:
John Pullen
Elizabeth Gardiner/Queen Anne:
Jennifer Piercey
Sir Henry Chauncy:
Gerald Cross
Arthur Chauncy:
Christopher Good
Francis Bragge:
Gabriel Woolf
Anne Thorne:
Elizabeth Proud
Mr Grant:
Peter Marinker
John Chapman:
Leonard Fenton
David/Matthew Gilston:
Andrew Branch
John Powell:
John Gabriel
Mr Franklin:
Ronald Herdman
Constable/Thomas Ireland:
Fred Bryant
Susan Aylott:
Tammy Ustinov

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