John Mortimer Presents ‘The Trials of Marshall Hall’ - Michael Butt

Category: Thriller
Language: EnglishKeywords: Hall John Marshall Mortimer Presents Trials

Written by Michael Butt
Format: MP3
Unabridged

THE TRIALS OF MARSHALL HALLBUTT MICHEAL

Edward Marshall-Hall, who was born in Brighton in 1858, became perhaps the
country’s most successful advocate of all time, building his reputation on a
phenomenal talent for acquitting defendants in murder trials where a guilty
verdict had seemed a foregone conclusion. Given that murder during this
period carried a sentence of execution by hanging, he can be said to have
saved a considerable number of souls, male and female, from the horrors of
the noose.This series features reconstructions of Marshall-Hall’s dramatic courtroom
displays and his ingenious and persuasive tactics. It also takes us back to the
strange and often sinister stories behind the terrible crimes in question. The
series is presented by barrister and writer John Mortimer QC (creator of
Rumpole at the Bailey), while actor Tom Baker (one of the best of the early Dr
Whos) brings to the role of Marshall Hall all the theatricality, humour and
mercurial moodiness for which the great advocate was known.