
Law and Order
Andrew Buchan and Josette Simon read poetry and prose about crime, police and the courts, including works by Dickens, TS Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Seamus Heaney and Oscar Wilde.
Andrew Buchan (Garrow's Law) and Josette Simon OBE (Casualty, Silent Witness) read poetry and prose about Law and Order. Following the model used by a popular American TV series of the same name, they begin by focusing on crime itself with T.S.Eliot's mischievous cat Macavity and extracts from "Crime and Punishment" and PD James, followed by the appearance of the police - both the uniformed variety and the private detective. Then they are in court with Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mocking Bird" (Harper Lee) and Shakespeare's Portia from "The Merchant of Venice". Finally sentence is carried out and the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged and Oscar Wilde is in Reading Gaol writing his famous ballad. Other writers featured include Seamus Heaney, Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger McGough, Carol Ann Duffy and Alfred Noyes.The texts are interwoven with music by Janacek, Britten, Gilbert and Sullivan, Prokofiev and Henry Mancini.
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T. S. Eliot
Macavity: the Mystery Cat (excerpt), reader T. S. Eliot
Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
Crime and Punishment (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan
Carol Ann Duffy
Stealing, reader Josette Simon
Mother Goose
The Tarts, reader Andrew Buchan
Roger McGough
Vandal, reader Andrew Buchan
Brian Patten
Little Johnny’s Confession, reader Josette Simon
Alfred Noyes
The Highwayman (excerpt), reader Josette Simon
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Plaque erected in York near where Dick Turpin was hanged, reader Andrew Buchan
P. D. James
Death in Holy Orders (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan
John Drinkwater
Bobby Blue, reader Josette Simon
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan
Franklin Waldheim
Help Wanted, reader Josette Simon
Solon
Quotation, reader Josette Simon
John Kendrick Bangs
As to the law, reader Andrew Buchan
Harper Lee
To kill a mocking bird (excerpt), reader Josette Simon
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Old Bailey proceedings 1693, reader Andrew Buchan
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Bible (King James Version): 1 Kings 3 vv 23-28, reader Josette Simon
Seamus Heaney
Punishment, reader Andrew Buchan
William Shakespeare
Portia’s speech from The Merchant of Venice (excerpt), reader Josette Simon
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Old Bailey proceedings 1674, reader Andrew Buchan
Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (excerpt), reader Andrew Buchan
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Apr 2011 22:15
- Tue 20 Dec 2011 17:00