Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday - starring Rita Tushingham and George Baker (1980)

Описание: This 1980 British television drama, starring Rita Tushingham and George Baker, tells the true story of Charlotte Bryant, an illiterate Irish woman living in rural Dorset who was accused of murdering her husband with arsenic in 1935. The programme delves into the "eternal triangle" involving Charlotte, her husband Fred, and their lodger Leonard Parsons, exploring the squalor, passion, and desperation that defined her life. As the legal system closes in, the drama highlights the flaws in the forensic evidence and the rigid social prejudices of the era.

Broadcast 17th August 1980, as part of the Lady Killers series - series playlist:    • Lady Killers (1980)  

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