Episodes
First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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20010328 | 20151011 (BBC7) /20 (BBC7) (BBC7) (BBC7) |
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.
First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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20010328 | 20151011 (BBC7) /20 (BBC7) (BBC7) (BBC7) |