Part of the BBC’s celebrated ‘Wednesday Play’ series of the 1960s, this early work by Dennis Potter is set in an isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.Read More »
Dr. Charles Boswell has joined the medical practice of the sleepy village of Evenbridge, as assistant to the ailing Dr. Welling who welcomes him into his home. But the tranquil domesticity is shattered when the Welling’s charming, young wife unexpectedly dies. The cause – arsenic poisoning. Everyone is a suspect, even the dead Mrs Welling, in this crime thriller of mistakes, madness and murder.Read More »