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Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 A Disorderly Girl
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'The sentence for stealing privily from the person is execution, to be carried out on a day following the first Sunday following conviction. However, the court has a certain discretion. News has recently reached this country that there is a shortage of able-bodied women in the penal colony of New South Wales. In consequence, Alice Venning – I sentence you to 15 years' transportation.'

Source:

Radio Times, 12 May 1977, p.37.

Production Details

  • First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16 May 1977, from 8pm.

    Producer/director: Shaun McLoughlin.

    Cast members included Sarah Golding (Alice Venning, the 'disorderly girl'), Alaric Cotter (Jonas Venning. her husband), and Clive Swift (Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher).

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