Summary
For the last decade, True Crime has become ubiquitous on television and podcasts. Yet despite its current popularity, it’s not a new phenomenon. In this programme, author Charles Nicholl take us back to a time before podcasts, TV, pulp magazines, even Penny Dreadfuls – all the way to the English stage 400 years ago when, for the first time, playhouses were putting contemporary news onstage.
Presenter: Charles Nicholl
Actors: Rhiannon Neads, John Lightbody, Michael Bertenshaw, Josh Bryant-Jones, Ian Dunnett Junior Sound design: Peter Ringrose Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasulae. This podcast finds the world's best |
| 0:47.0 | audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. I'm on Park Street in Southwark, a block in from the South Bank of the Thames and indeed |
| 0:58.9 | a whole lot of big modern blocks are mostly what you see around here. |
| 1:03.8 | Four hundred years ago of course it was all rather different. |
| 1:08.6 | The street was then called Maiden Lane, probably an ironic reference to sex workers in the area. And here on this |
| 1:16.2 | disreputable lane stood the rows, the famous Elizabethan playhouse where you could |
| 1:22.1 | stand for a penny or sit for tuppance. and Jew of Malta or Ben Johnson's lost early comedy, hot anger soon cooled. |
| 1:37.0 | The Rose opened its doors in 1587 and for 12 years it had a virtual monopoly in this corner of Elizabethan theatre land. |
| 1:48.0 | But then in 1599 another even more famous theatre was built here the globe. I've pasted |
| 1:57.2 | out at their closest point they were just 50 yards apart not quite spitting distance but certainly a stone throw. You could have |
| 2:06.6 | stood on Maiden Lane and heard the crowds roaring in stereo. Two playhouses, two top play companies, |
| 2:21.0 | with the Rose, the Lord Abrel men, at the Globe, the Lord Chamberlain's |
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