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Piglaw

Stephen Wyatt - Piglaw

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27/05/2005

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Stephen Wyatt - Piglaw

When a pig kills a small child in medieval France, legal and religious issues are raised.

When a pig kills a small child in medieval France, legal and religious issues are raised. Stars Tony Robinson.

Who would be foolish enough to put a pig on trial?

Yet the lawyer Lebrun suggests this is the right thing to do when a crime is committed in a small market town in mediaeval France. His proposal leads him and the parish priest, Fr. Bernard, into deeper waters than either of them could have foreseen.

Starring Christian Rodska and Tony Robinson.

Written by Stephen Wyatt. 

Fr. Bernard .... Christian Rodska
Pierre Lebrun .... Tony Robinson
Master Bailly .... Hugh Dickson
Jehan Delalande .... Peter Craze
Marie, his wife .... Zelah Clarke
Filliol, a pig-keeper .... Michael Graham Cox
Mayor .... Geoffrey Matthews
Man .... Kenneth Shanley
Anne Lebrun .... Melinda Walker
Confessor …. Simon Cuff
Jailer .... Joe Hall
Woman .... Jane Gambier

Producer:  Peter Fozzard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 1989.

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