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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
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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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- New South Wales,
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