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THE VERDICT OF THE COURT

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Reconstructions of famous trials with postscripts by Dudley Perkins
3: The Trial of Mary Blandy
Murder: Oxford, 1752
Mary Blandy was tried on a charge of poisoning her father. Her defence was that she had given him a ' love philtre' in order to persuade him to look more kindly upon Captain the Hon. William Cranstoun, who wished to marry her but was not acceptable to Mr. Blandy.
Script by Christopher Hibbert Production by Joe Burroughs

Contributors

Unknown:
Dudley Perkins
Unknown:
Mary Blandy
Unknown:
Mary Blandy
Script By:
Christopher Hibbert
Production By:
Joe Burroughs
The Hon Henry Bathurst (for the Crown):
Norman Shelley
Mr Ford (for the Accused):
Carleton Hobbs
Mary Blandy:
Sheila Grant
Susannah Gunnell:
Joan Matheson
Narrator:
Edward Ward
Source: Radio Times

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