About this season
A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
Episodes (10)
1. Sir Roger Casement
Aired 8 July 1960
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
2. The Baccarat Scandal
Aired 15 July 1960
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
3. Admiral Byng
Aired 22 July 1960
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
4. Spencer Cowper
Aired 29 July 1960
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
5. Oscar Wilde
Aired 5 August 1960
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
6. The Dilke Case
Aired 12 August 1960
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
7. The Tichborne Case
Aired 19 August 1960
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
8. W.T. Stead
Aired 26 August 1960
A newspaperman arranges for himself to be arrested on a morals charge so that he can use the witness-box to expose the white slave traffic.
9. Governor Wall
Aired 2 September 1960
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
10. Horatio Bottomley, MP
Aired 9 September 1960
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.