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Trial by Inquiry The Putumayo Scandal

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' The scene of this English company's operations is a no-man's-land- in the Amazon basin. It is alleged that their agents have forced the Indians to work day and night at the extraction of rubber without the slightest remuneration. They have given them nothing to eat. They flog them until their bones are bare, then let them linger until they die ... '
Written by ARTHUR SWINSON Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON

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Written By:
Arthur Swinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Narrator:
Geoffrey Banks
Julio Arana:
Roger Delgado
Sir Roger Casement:
Alan Barry
Henry Gielgud:
Christopher Wilkinson
John Russell Gubbins:
Wilfred Harrison
Charles Roberts, mp:
David Mahlowe
William Joynson Hicks, mp:
Ronald Harvi
John Gordon Macneill, Kc, mp:
Eric Woodburn
Source: Radio Times

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