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Will the trial of Squire George Martin convict him of murder?

Will the trial of Squire George Martin need help from beyond the grave to convict him of murder? Stars Donald Wolfit. From 1963.

'What see you in the comer of the court, that you fix your eyes on it and not on me, your Judge?'

Will the trial of Squire George Martin need help from beyond the grave to convict him of murder? 

MR James's ghostly tale first published in 1911.

Dramatised by Michael and Mollie Hardwick 

Judge Jeffreys    ......    Donald Wolfit 
Thomas Snell    ......    Frank Partington
Betty Clark    ......    Barbara Mitchell
George Martin    ......    Anthony Hall
Parson Matthews    ......    Rolf Lefebvre 
Ann Clark    ......    Sheila Grant  
Clerk of the Court    ......    George Hagan 
Sarah Arscott    ......    Daphne Heard
William Reddaway    ......    Francis Larkin 
The Recorder    ......    Earle Grey
The Attorney General    ......    Godfrey Kenton 
The Marshal    ......    Donald McKillop 

Producer: Charles Lefeaux 

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1963.

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