Maleficium

Spells, charms and an imagined cursing.

Taking its title from the word for a malicious act of witchcraft, ‘Maleficium' draws on actual terrifying accounts of confessions at witch trials, to create voices for three imaginary characters.

Alice, Margery and Jinnet - a farm hand, a farmer's wife and an elderly ‘cunning-woman', are brought to the point of tragedy when two of them accused of witchcraft by the other.

Written by Liz Lochhead.

Alice - . Clare Corbett

Margery - . Siobhan Redmond

Jinnet - . Freda Dowie

The Skeptick, Willem Ladd - . Jon Glover

Producer: Robert Ketteridge

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2001.

The terrifying outcome of suspected witchcraft drawn from actual accounts.

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