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A Play specially written for broadcasting by PHILIP BLAIR
Based on the last recorded case of witchcraft in Dundee in the year 1669
Characters in their order of speaking :
Citizens, soldiers, etc.
The action passes in the City of Dundee in the year 1669, in the Butchart's attic in Callendar Close, The Overgate ; the Tolbooth ; and The Seagate
The play produced by GORDON GILDARD
On November 11, 1669, the Privy Council issued a commission for the trial of this woman, who is designated the spouse of James Butchart , malt-man, and then prisoner in the Tolbooth of Dundee, on suspicion of ' the horrid crime of witchcraft'. Authority was given to put her to the knowledge of an assize, 'and if by her own confession ... it shall be found she hath renounced her baptism, entered into paction with the devil, or otherwise that malefices be legally proven against her, that then and no otherwise they
-cause the sentence of death to be executed upon her'.

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Philip Blair
Produced By:
Gordon Gildard
Unknown:
James Butchart
James Butchart:
George P Davies
Grissel Jaffray Butchart, his wife:
Meg Buchanan
Matthew Henderson:
James Garrow
Peggy Bissett:
Mary Sutherland
Henry Scrimgeour:
Douglas Allen
Peter Wilson:
Charles Watson
Andrew, a jailer:
Adam Shepherd
Sandy Butchart, a sea captain, son of James and Grissel:
Rex de la Haye
Sergeant of Police:
James Spence

Regional Programme Scotland

About Regional Programme

Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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