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'Joan of Arc' by Michael Morpurgo - Joan's interrogation by the clergy (dramatisation)
Dramatised extract from Michael Morpurgo's 'Joan of Arc' in which she is interrogated by the clergy. Joan is being questioned after being accused of sorcery, blasphemy and witchcraft. A narrator describes a gruelling interrogation set against Joan's unflinching belief in the angelic origin of the voices in her head and her refusal to deny them, even in the face of torture and a horrible death. Actors in period costume and setting play out the described scene.