



Justice Sir Francis Brittain ... Boris Karloff

Keith Nottingham PC ... Duncan McIntyre

Miles Lamprey KC .... Howieson Culff Sir Ronald Pond .... Robert Webber Colonel George Archer .... Richard Williams Major the Rt. Hon. Gilbert West .... Norman Claridge John Teal .... John T. St Barry Mary Reddish .... Gabrielle Blunt Roberts .... Richard Hutton



Other parts played by Geoffrey Bond, John Cazabon, Brian Hayes, Peter Hoar, Arthur Lawrence, Stanley Mackenzie and Tony Quinn



adapted by John Richmond



First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1953.



Prominent judge Sir Francis Brittain unyieldingly believes the British judicial system is infallible regarding capital punishment, but after sentencing a prisoner to death he is revealed to be leading a dark double life and is set to be "hoist with his own petard".