Policing: Fact and Fiction
Matthew Sweet explores depictions of policing with playwright Roy Williams, Chief Constable Sara Thornton, historian Kate Colquhoun and film-maker and criminologist Roger Graef.
Matthew Sweet explores the idea of the police with the playwright Roy Williams, the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton, the historian Kate Colquhoun and the film maker and criminologist Roger Graef.
How do we think of the police; what are they for and who do they serve? Do the police have a moral and social duty as well as a legal one?
Roy Williams' play Kingston 14, starring Goldie, runs at Theatre Royal Stratford East from March 28th - April 26th
Roger Graef is visiting professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
Kate Colquhoun's latest book Did She Kill Him? looks at the 1889 case of Florence Maybrick who was tried for murdering her husband.
Sara Thornton is the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
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Kingston 14
Roy Williams discusses his play Kingston 14, which is set in a police station in Jamaica.
Duration: 10:11
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
Kate Colquhoun on the representation of the police in the nineteenth century.
Duration: 10:26
Police
Matthew Sweet explores the idea of the police; what are they for and who do they serve?
Duration: 22:53
Kingston 14
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runs at Theatre Royal Stratford East from 3 April to 26 April 2014.
Photos: Above Goldie in Kingston 14. Right: Charles Venn and Gamba Cole.Β Both by Robert Day.
Did She Kill Him?
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by Kate Colquhoun is available now in paperback, hardback and e-book.
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Matthew Sweet Interviewed Guest Roy Williams Interviewed Guest Sara Thornton Interviewed Guest Kate Colquhoun Interviewed Guest Roger Graef Producer Natalie Steed Broadcast
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