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1. The Confession
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A dying policeman recalls how a gruesome murder many years before changed his life forever. Read by Ronald Pickup.
Given just days to live, a Victorian policeman is ready to make his final confession.
He's set to candidly reveal his involvement in a murder case in London many years before.
When he was a young police constable, a woman burst in with news of a gruesome killing...
Detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1881.
Read in two parts by Ronald Pickup.
Producer: Joanne Reardon
Made for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 7 and first broadcast in October 2003.
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