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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 BBC 7 and first broadcast in October 2003.

30 minutes

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Fri 26 May 202301:00
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